[Xpipe-developers] XPipe GUI

[David S. <da...@sa...>]

Hi All,

About Swing based XComponent editor.
I think it should not be only editor it should provide features like
compilation, debugging, executing XPipes etc.
Also component developer should have ability to write and debug additional
code, which will be used by XComponent for instance additional Java classes
or scripts.
I am afraid that development of such IDE will be very difficult and will
take a lot of time.

I propose to use existing IDE such Netbeans (Sun Forte) with additional
modules for XComponent support. This IDE is based on open APIs and has very
flexible infrastructure for additional modules.
This approach gives ability to use existing services of the IDE such project
manager, project tree explorer, java debugger etc.

Netbeans is free open source project and for XComponents development will be
required only to download it and XComponent module and use it free.

Netbeans also allows adding support for XSLT, Jython and other script
languages.

You can see prototype of XComponent module for Netbeans at
http://xpipe.tripod.com/
Please don't forget it is only prototype :)

I used David Starr's draft Java implementation of XComponent. But I was
forced to place it in package (org.xpipe) because it is a requirement of
Netbeans modules specification.

David Shalamberidze
da...@sa...