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Web-based IDEs Edge Closer To the Mainstream

Posted by timothy on from the hope-your-connection-is-reliable dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Potential for Netbooks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  2. Re:Potential for Netbooks by godrik · · Score: 4, Informative

    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

  3. Re:Is this just muscle-flexing? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.