CONTACTS 
0202 - SRI International                                                                                                                                                  O-00000103 1201
020201 - Mr. Jack Park;
020203 - CALO Project                                                                                                                                                     O-00000103 1201

SUBJECTS
Java Editor Text Open Source Jedit Java IDE Integrated Development E

2603 -
2603 -    ..
2604 - Summary/Objective
2605 -
260501 - Follow up ref SDS 23 0000. ref SDS 22 0000.
260502 -
260503 -
260504 -
260505 -
260507 -  ..
2606 -
2607 -
2608 - Discussion
2609 -
260901 - Jedit Text Editor Java IDE Considered SDS Windows Application
260902 - Java Integrated Development Environment IDE Research SDS Windows App
260903 -
260904 - Follow up ref SDS 23 OM6G, ref SDS 22 OM6G.
260905 -
260906 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 a copy of Gary's letter responding to Jack
260907 - Park's letter, ref DRP 1 0001, received from SRI on 080108,
260908 - ref SDS 23 SY6M, and commenting on report also on 080108 that Morris
260909 - is considering using Java instead of c programming language.
260910 - ref SDS 23 OM6G  Gary sent a copy to Morris. ref DRT 1 00W3
260911 -
260912 -    1.  Jack can likely do better off the top of his head, but here is
260913 -        what a little research truned up. ref DRT 1 0001
260915 -         ..
260916 -    2.  I looked at 2 things:
260917 -
260918 -             1.  IDEs and development environments for Jave,
260919 -                 ref DRT 1 K45M
260920 -
260921 -             2.  Open source editors written in Java that could server
260922 -                 as test of performance and possible even a starting
260923 -                 point for an SDS editor. ref DRT 1 W46H
260925 -  ..
260926 - Case study on 060211 reports prior consideration of Java. ref SDS 15
260927 - YY5K  Related case study on XML was developed in the record a few
260928 - weeks ago on 071113. ref SDS 18 XC3M
260929 -
260930 -            [On 080124 Morris reported progress developing SDS using
260931 -            Java development tools with Ruby on Rails. ref SDS 24 W05L
260933 -  ..
260934 - Gary's letter continues...
260935 -
260936 -    3.  == jEdit ==
260937 -
260938 -              http://www.jedit.org/
260940 -         ..
260941 -    4.  jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds
260942 -        (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of
260943 -        development behind it.  It is open source. ref DRT 1 6666
260944 -
260945 -        1.  Written in Java, so it runs on Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS
260946 -            and Windows.
260948 -             ..
260949 -        2.  Built-in macro language; extensible plugin architecture.
260950 -            Dozens of macros and plugins available. ref DRT 1 F77M
260952 -  ..
260953 - What we need is an extensible macro language, so we can build the
260954 - things needed for Knowledge Management.
260955 -
260956 -                  [...below Jack Park reports favorable experience
260957 -                  using Jedit, advises it is GPL. ref SDS 0 VS4H
260959 -  ..
260960 - Gary's letter continues...
260961 -
260962 -        3.  Plugins can be downloaded and installed from within jEdit
260963 -            using the "plugin manager" feature. ref DRT 1 L78F
260965 -             ..
260966 -        4.  Auto indent, and syntax highlighting for more than 130
260967 -            languages. ref DRT 1 188I
260969 -             ..
260970 -        5.  Supports a large number of character encodings including
260971 -            UTF8 and Unicode. ref DRT 1 688L
260973 -             ..
260974 -        6.  Folding for selectively hiding regions of text. ref DRT 1
260975 -            688Y
260977 -             ..
260978 -        7.  Word wrap. ref DRT 1 689Q
260980 -             ..
260981 -        8.  Highly configurable and customizable. ref DRT 1 E99I
260983 -             ..
260984 -        9.  Every other feature, both basic and advanced, you would
260985 -            expect to find in a text editor. ref DRT 1 E99K
260987 -         ..
260988 -    5.  It is open source.  It should be easy enough to install and
260989 -        sufficiently mature to provide an example that can be used to
260990 -        assess the performance of a well-written, local machine-based,
260991 -        editor written in java. ref DRT 1 L99N
260993 -         ..
260994 -    6.  jEdit by itself is just a text editor; plugins can turn it into
260995 -        a powerful IDE.  You can install as few or as many plugins as
260996 -        you want. ref DRT 1 544I
260998 -         ..
260999 -    7.  There are more than 150 plugins listed on Plugin Central.
261000 -        ref DRT 1 D44L
261002 -         ..
261003 -    8.  Having a lot of plugins installed slows down jEdit startup.
261004 -        JythonInterpreter and JavaInsight are the worst offenders,
261005 -        together adding about 7 seconds to the jEdit startup time.
261006 -        ref DRT 1 N44N
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SUBJECTS
Java IDE Integrated Development Environment Netbeans Text Editor Jav

5303 -
530401 -  ..
530402 - Netbeans Free Open Source Java Integrated Development Environment IDE
530403 - Java Integrated Development Environment IDE Research SDS Windows App
530404 -
530406 -  ..
530407 - Gary's letter continues...
530409 -         ..
530410 -    9.  NetBeans - The Only IDE You Need, ref DRT 1 664O
530411 -
530412 -              http://www.netbeans.org/
530414 -         ..
530415 -   10.  The NetBeans IDE is a free, open-source Integrated Development
530416 -        Environment for software developers.  You get all the tools you
530417 -        need to create professional desktop, enterprise, web and mobile
530418 -        applications, in Java, C/C++ and even Ruby.  The IDE runs on
530419 -        many platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris;
530420 -        it is easy to install and use straight out of the box.
530421 -        ref DRT 1 GF6F
530423 -  ..
530424 - Need explanation of difference between IDE presented here, and editor
530425 - discussed above. ref SDS 0 WL9X
530426 -
530427 -            [...below Jack does not recommend Netbeans, he uses
530428 -            Eclipse. ref SDS 0 KS8X
530429 -
530430 -            [On 080124 Morris reported progress developing SDS using
530431 -            Java development tools with Ruby on Rails. ref SDS 24 W05L
530433 -  ..
530434 - With Medit for example, Morris uses a compiler to assemble code in
530435 - files created with the editor to produce a program file.  Does IDE
530436 - correlate with the compiler?
530438 -  ..
530439 - Gary's letter continues...
530440 -
530441 -   11.  The 6.0 release includes significant enhancements and new
530442 -        features, including a completely rewritten editor
530443 -        infrastructure, support for additional languages, new
530444 -        productivity features, and a simplified installation process
530445 -        that allows you to easily install and configure the IDE to meet
530446 -        your exact needs. ref DRT 1 IF6N
530448 -  ..
530449 - How does this editor correlate with the editor presented above?
530450 - ref SDS 0 WL9X  Are these two editors for the same thing, or for
530451 - different tasks?
530453 -  ..
530454 - Gary's letter continues...
530455 -
530456 -   12.  There is a review at:, ref DRT 1 2H3K
530457 -
530458 -              http://www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=9889&page=
530460 -         ..
530461 -   13.  Pros:
530462 -
530463 -        1.  Superb editor and powerful debugger set into a very
530464 -            customizable IDE. ref DRT 1 6H4F
530465 -
530466 -        2.  Highly usable with Ant, JUnit, Javadoc and version control
530467 -            support.
530469 -         ..
530470 -   14.  Cons:
530471 -
530472 -        1.  Resource-hungry -- needs Pentium 600Mhz with 256MB of RAM
530473 -            on Windows minimum. ref DRT 1 6747
530474 -
530475 -        2.  Only simple database, Struts, J2EE and Web services support
530476 -            is included. ref DRT 1 MH5M
530478 -             ..
530479 -        3.  Mixed quality documentation and third-party books.
530480 -            ref DRT 1 XH6F
530481 -
530483 -         ..
530484 -   15.  == Cube-J ==
530485 -
530486 -              http://myjavaserver.com/~jmsoan/cube-j/
530488 -         ..
530489 -   16.  Cube-J started just as any other simple notepad.  Since then It
530490 -        was develop and it became an IDE.  It's an IDE purely made in
530491 -        Java with a vision to tell the world that Java can be fast as
530492 -        any windows application. ref DRT 1 6758
530494 -         ..
530495 -   17.  Cube-J is still under development stage, a project made
530496 -        specially for students who wants to know how to program in java
530497 -        in a fast and simple way.  Any Java Developer will surely
530498 -        appriciate it's easy to use features.  Like any Java IDE's in
530499 -        the market Cube-J provides basic functionalities that you can
530500 -        find in any IDE's. ref DRT 1 6768
530502 -         ..
530503 -   18.  Another candidate for assessing Java performance. ref DRT 1
530504 -        SA8F
530506 -         ..
530507 -   19.  == Jext ==
530508 -
530509 -              http://www.jext.org/
530511 -         ..
530512 -   20.  Jext is open source. ref DRT 1 6778
530514 -         ..
530515 -   21.  Jext was created to support Java programming language.  But
530516 -        nowadays it can edit many other types of source codes.  Among
530517 -        them you'll find C, C++, C#, ASP, PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, TeX,
530518 -        XHTML, XSLT, Eiffel, JSP...  Besides it provides advanced
530519 -        features to ease you work. ref DRT 1 2D9F
530521 -         ..
530522 -        Manage your projects with the bookmarks tool, categorize your
530523 -        opened files through workspaces, directly open zipped files,
530524 -        get a file straight from the Internet, mail your source code,
530525 -        executes system commands within the internal console, type
530526 -        faster thanks to HyperTyper and to the customizable code
530527 -        snippets library, add new features with plugins, discover the
530528 -        advanced editing capabilities, use the internal Python
530529 -        interpreter...  Jext meets all your needs ! ref DRT 1 JD9L
530531 -         ..
530532 -        Developers will also appreciate the open architecture of Jext.
530533 -        Based on GPLed libraries, internal Python interpreter and many
530534 -        XML files, improving Jext is an easy job.  You can even write
530535 -        your own plugins (in Python or Java). ref DRT 1 KD4K
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SUBJECTS
Jedit Editor Java Open Source GPL License Jext Programming Editor Hi

7603 -
760401 -  ..
760402 - Jedit Fabulous Java Open Source Editor
760403 -
760404 - Received ref DRT 2 0001 copy of letter from Jack Park responding to
760405 - Gary's letter discussing Java this morning, per above. ref SDS 0 OM6G
760406 -
760407 - Jack says...
760408 -
760409 -    1.  Jedit is fabulous, except that it's GPL.  You won't be able to
760410 -        distribute anything with it without going GPL yourself.  Keep
760411 -        it to yourself and you're home free. ref DRT 2 0001
760413 -  ..
760414 - On 080108 Jack reported that GPL is an open source license.
760415 - ref SDS 23 7E5V
760416 -
760417 -            [On 080124 Morris reported progress developing SDS using
760418 -            Java development tools with Ruby on Rails. ref SDS 24 W05L
760420 -  ..
760421 - Gary reviews Jedit favorably in a letter received earlier today, per
760422 - above. ref SDS 0 WL9X
760424 -  ..
760425 - Case study on 060211 reports prior consideration of Java. ref SDS 15
760426 - YY5K  Related case study on XML was developed in the record a few
760427 - weeks ago on 071113. ref SDS 18 XC3M
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SUBJECTS
Netbeans Java Integrated Development Environment IDE Not Recommended

A503 -
A50401 -  ..
A50402 - Jext Recommended for Editing Java Program Code
A50403 -
A50404 -
A50405 - Jack's letter continues...
A50406 -
A50407 -    2.  Jext is not (or was not) GPL; it was written by a 13 year old.
A50408 -        Awesome package. ref DRT 2 DO6F
A50410 -  ..
A50411 - Gary reports today that Jext is a Java code development editor.
A50412 - ref SDS 0 WN3P
A50413 -
A50415 -  ..
A50416 - Netbeans Not Recommended for Java IDE Propose Eclipse
A50417 - Eclipse Proposed Instead of Netbeans Not Recommended for Java IDE
A50418 -
A50419 -
A50420 -    3.  I don't much care for Netbeans; I use Eclipse.org instead.
A50421 -        Much happier with Eclipse except it's weak on the gui-builder
A50422 -        where netbeans is stronger on gui builders.  Jbuilder is now
A50423 -        based on eclipse and I think it has a good gui builder; all
A50424 -        older Jbuilders had great gui builders, but I haven't tried the
A50425 -        latest one. Those too have a free version. ref DRT 2 DO6K
A50427 -  ..
A50428 - Netbeans is presented in Gary's letter per above. ref SDS 0 664H
A50430 -  ..
A50431 - Case study on 060211 reports prior consideration of Java. ref SDS 15
A50432 - YY5K  Related case study on XML was developed in the record a few
A50433 - weeks ago on 071113. ref SDS 18 XC3M
A50434 -
A50435 -            [On 080124 Morris reported progress developing SDS using
A50436 -            Java development tools with Ruby on Rails. ref SDS 24 W05L
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