Re: JSwat on NetBeans platform (Nathan Fiedler)

Hi Nathan,

in general I think it is a good idea to use the Netbeans platform as the
basis for future JSwat.

Regarding your thought about JEdit users, however, you are quite right. The
point is: There is already a good debugger for users of the Netbeans
platform, namely the debugger that comes with the Netbeans IDE. JEdit users don't
have any other option than JSwat, currently, as far as I can see (and the same
holds for VIM users and so on). In fact I do use the Netbeans IDE, but
sometimes I work on older hardware. In those moments I am really happy that there's
JSwat and VIM or JEdit, which are much less demanding than Netbeans regarding
hardware equipment.

But maybe there's an alternative way for you, how you can make use of the NB
platform without causing deep depression with the JEdit folks. Maybe you
could take a look at Jalopy. This is code formatting program that exists in
various incarnations. It can be used as a standalone program from the console or
with a GUI, and as a plug-in module within Netbeans and Eclipse and (!)
JEdit, as well.

As it seems they found an architecture that allows them to maintain all
these different versions without having too much of a trouble. Maybe it's worth a
look:

http://jalopy.sourceforge.net/

If the module mechanism of the Netbeans IDE is an intrinsic part of the
Netbeans platform (and otherwise I'd be surprised) you might find a similar
solution, to the benefit of all existing and future users of JSwat.

Should this turn out to be too difficult or not possible for some reason,
then the JEdit people need JSwat more than the Netbeans folks, who already have
a good solution at hand. I use the chance to say thank you for making JSwat
publicly available, and for making it so good.

Best wishes,

    Alex Bär

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