Re: [AgileWiki] Regarding IDE

[Bill la F. <bil...@su...>]

Eclipse? Should be interesting.

1. Please do not use Eclipse to work on AwSwingClient.

This should not be too big a restriction, as it is a thin client and its 
pretty small.
The AwServer program is where the bulk of the code lives.

2. The project build files are all NetBeans generated. I think they will 
work
outside of NetBeans--they are complete. But as for working inside Eclipse,
I haven't a clue.

3. The entire NetBeans project directory is included under subversion, so
you can simply open a project directly with NetBeans. With eclipse you
will likely need to define these projects first.

4. Support for subversion is not yet included in NetBeans (soon, now).
So we mostly use TortoiseSVN when running on windows or the svn
command lines on other OSs. I don't know about Eclipse or if it would have
problems with the NetBeans directory structures even if it does support 
subversion.

So, you can try Eclipse. (But not on AwSwingClient, please!).
I'd like to hear how it goes. It would be good to know.

As for understanding the project, well, its a bit large for that 
approach. This is what
Gordan is doing, but he has a lot of available time and has yet to 
contribute any
code--though I am hopeful.

Rather, I suggest focusing on the creation of commands and forms to 
begin with,
then taking a small project and get your hands dirty. A starting point 
is the commands.txt
file located in the agilewiki package in the AwServer project--it lists 
all the command
names and classes.

But even before digging into the code, become a user first. Register at 
agilewiki.org
and experiment in your own Cabinet. Besides, you will need to use the 
program to
access the (very limited but slowly growing) documentation.

I will note that I am a very frustrated user of AgileWiki3! I miss the 
features in the
AgileWiki2 prototype that made it so easy to reorganize content. But 
we'll get there,
methinks, in a month or 3.

Bill

Ajay R wrote:

>Hi Bill
>
>Thanks, yeah I'll take some time to look at the
>project and understand how it works.
>
>Another questions I have is regarding NetBeans. I know
>all of you have been using NetBeans as the IDE, but I
>have had experience with Eclipse. Would there be any
>copmpatibility issues if eclipse is used over
>netbeans. It's just that I dont want to worry about
>getting used to another IDE.
>
>Regards
>
>Ajay Ravichandran
>