BloomBurst: Growing Software with Pop
BloomBurst is written by Matthew Reinbold. He currently lives in Salt Lake, Utah and has been a web designer, site developer, and usability engineer since 1999.
I’ve been using the Eclipse IDE on code development for some time. I love being able to jump from one software language to another. I treat the plugins something akin to pokemon – I gotta collect ‘em all. After all, I want to be ready when that six figure Haskell project comes calling.
The one glaring omission I’ve had from my toolkit was a solid JavaScript piece. I’ve tried a couple of plug-ins in the past but never found one that didn’t send me back to plain text editing within a week. That may all change with Adobe’s preview release of Interakt’s JSEclipse.
Interakt was a great bunch of hard-core coders out of Romania (we’ve had them present remotely at a SLCFUG meeting). In September they were acquired by Adobe. Several individuals (me included) wondered what would happen to all the great developer tools in their
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On my second round I took a different approach. And, although I did not experience the same catastrophic results, I still do not have JSEclipse installed. Any tips?
When you open up the zip you'll see a number of items - all your concerned with are the 'plugins' and 'features' folders. Copy the contents of the 'plugins' folder into your eclipse 'plugin' folder. Rinse and repeat for the contents of the 'features' folder. If you had Eclipse open shut it down and reopen it so that it 'catches' the new Java *.jar files. When you open the IDE don't expect fireworks - at this point everything should be the same. The magic happens when you open up a javascript file (in your navigator tree view they should have a new icon next to them - a dark box with a vertical red stripe and 'JS' on its side.
Let me know if you get it working or if there are still problems.
Incidentally that same package also comes with basic JavaScript, SQL, CSS, and HTML editor pieces (among other things). For anyone that isn't fussy about their plug-in pieces I'd recommend just grabbing that bundle and being covered for quite a few different areas. The XML piece supports what you'd expect: basic code coloring and tag completion.
I know XML Buddy is a popular choice for more robust XML development. It comes with a panel for editing values graphically, as shown here: http://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/Gino/XMLBuddy+Installation+Instructions
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