For my dissertation I wrote a web-based Java IDE that used Eclipse as a backend (see www.willryan.co.uk/WWWorkspace for a demo). It has far more features than Bespin although i didn't test it fully for scalability and couldn't afford to host it for a reasonable number of users. I then went traveling for six months and didn't further pursue or promote it. It supports Java compilation and safe execution of code as well as collaboration. It's very interesting to see this new trend in web based IDEs. I think there is certainly a market for it, from coding on a machine that is not set up for programming to education and introduction to programming. I thought this was an ideal forum to resurface my solution and would be interested for any feedback...
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For my dissertation I wrote a web-based Java IDE that used Eclipse as a backend (see www.willryan.co.uk/WWWorkspace for a demo). It has far more features than Bespin although i didn't test it fully for scalability and couldn't afford to host it for a reasonable number of users. I then went traveling for six months and didn't further pursue or promote it. It supports Java compilation and safe execution of code as well as collaboration. It's very interesting to see this new trend in web based IDEs. I think there is certainly a market for it, from coding on a machine that is not set up for programming to education and introduction to programming. I thought this was an ideal forum to resurface my solution and would be interested for any feedback...