Bistro!: IDE Collaboration progress

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mercredi avril 20, 2005

IDE Collaboration progress
Sun Java Studio Enterprise 7 has upgraded its instant collaboration feature to allow developers to create accounts on a shared java.net collaboration server (via HTTPS or SOCKS 5 proxy). I have mine setup under 'alexismp'. See you there!

While we'd love to have all Java developers use JSE 7 or even NetBeans to create an ecosystems of collab-aware developers and as cool and useful as this feature can be, we will not have developers switch IDEs overnight. Stay tuned for more and come to JavaONE this year.

( avr. 20 2005, 12:53:39 PM CEST ) Permalink Comments [6]

Comments:

Are there plans to make the collab features available through Netbeans? I would love to use Studio, but since I use a Mac at home, I can't without some acrobatics.

Of course, if Sun finally realizes that there are many people who do Java development on the mac and need something deeper than Creator provides. Eclipse (and IBM according to the many conspiracy theorists around) gets it. Why not Sun?

-- Fred (Proud owner of a PB 15")

Posted by Frederic Jean on avril 20, 2005 at 06:10 PM CEST #

NetBeans is available on the Mac, not just Creator, right?
Other than that, I think you're getting the general idea on what Sun wants to do with this instant collab.
-Alexis (proud owner of an iMac, only a G4 though :-(

Posted by Alexis MP on avril 20, 2005 at 06:36 PM CEST #

Yes, Netbeans is available on the Mac (although we didn't get an official NB 4.1 build until the beta phase. Some issues about availability of the app server 8.1 on Mac OS X...). But NB 4.1 doesn't have the collaboration features in it. Of course, I can probably pull the interesting modules from the Studio and install them on Netbeans, but that goes back to the acrobatics section.

I guess that my beef is with Sun's disregard of the Mac platform.

-- Fred

Posted by Frederic Jean on avril 20, 2005 at 06:47 PM CEST #

BTW, there are other collaboration plugins for other Java IDEs: IDEtalk for IntelliJ IDEA, Sangam for Eclipse.

Posted by Kirill Maximov on avril 27, 2005 at 01:18 PM CEST #

Yes, I've come across them recently. This is good, now we have some one to talk to! ;-)

Posted by Alexis MP on avril 28, 2005 at 06:44 PM CEST #

Alexis, do I understand correctly that you're working on a kind of public API for your collaboration tool? Or even a kind of library which would allow other IDE's to communicate with JSE7? If so, I'd implement another transport for IDEtalk which would allow IDEA developers to collaborate with JSE7. I know, i know, I should wait for JavaONE, but I'm afraid I won't be able to attend it.

Posted by Kirill Maximov on avril 29, 2005 at 10:29 AM CEST #