Web-based IDEs Edge Closer To the Mainstream

snitch writes "Last week Mozilla released Bespin, their web-based framework for code editing, and only a few days later Boris Bokowski and Simon Kaegi implemented an Eclipse-based Bespin server using headless Eclipse plug-ins. With the presentation of the web-based Eclipse workbench at EclipseCon and the release of products like Heroku, a web-based IDE and hosting environment for RoR apps, it seems that web-based IDEs might soon become mainstream."

Comments

Re:note: CodePress url

[AKAImBatman]

Codepress is just an editor. A potentially important piece of any IDE to be sure, but only a piece. You still need file system integration, project control, build support, deployment options, UI editors, code suggestion dropdowns, and a host of other tools and features that make modern IDEs useful products.

Re:Potential for Netbooks

[Anonymous Coward]

Setup ssh on your beefy box. Install eclipse. run xhost +

Now on your netbook ssh -x
login
eclipse&

It should popup on you netbook but be running on your beefy computer.

Re:WTF is it with undescribed acronyms?

[cbiltcliffe]

Idiot Dumbass Editor.

Re:Potential for Netbooks

[godrik]

there is no need to xhost + your machine. It is the point of using ssh Xforwarding.

An other version would be to run your IDE from your netbook but alias make to "ssh make" or using a well configured distcc. The last point would be transfering datas. Two options are available here. Either you rsync them to the server, or you mount the code directory on your local machine using ssh, fuse and sshfs

Re:Is this just muscle-flexing?

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

http://code.google.com/p/gears/

Pretty much what you asked for. OSS, available for a large number of platforms, and already seeing some real world use.

Re:Project files? Now we hide the source files!

[AKAImBatman]

You *had* to ask, didn't you?

http://robrohan.com/projects/9ne/

And just to keep the vi vs. emacs rivalry well fueled:

http://gpl.internetconnection.net/vi/

Re:Potential for Netbooks

[doug]

Avoid the "xhost +" stuff. From the netbook try something like

ssh -YtC user@beefy.box.com /path/to/eclipse

and you just might get what you're looking for.

- doug

Re:Potential for Netbooks

[i.of.the.storm]

Eh, running eclipse over ssh sounds like pain, but I was going to suggest ssh too. But I would probably suggest using vim or emacs instead of eclipse over ssh, because the bandwidth used from running eclipse might be horrid.

Yeah, just tried it on one of the campus servers. Took 5 minutes to start up, and another minute before the screen was actually painted. UI is unresponsive, menus wouldn't draw for another minute, and basically everything has about a 30 second delay. But it would probably work great over LAN.

Re:Potential for Netbooks

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, I run eclipse on an EEEPC 701. Runs like a dream.