[news.eclipse.platform] Re: developing an IDE

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Take a look at the DLTK project (which is concerned with dynamic
language):

http://www.eclipse.org/dltk

There's no support specifically for parsing (you'll have to use
something like ANTLR for that), but it does provide a lot of the
language-specific stuff for you.

FWIW, the Eclipse IDE does contain a complete plug-in to experiment
with. We call it, the JDT (Java development tools). Or, you could
install the CDT, PDT, or DLTK support for some Ruby, TCL, or
JavaScript. 

Wayne

On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 16:52 +0200, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> Hi
> 
> could you please suggest some documentation concerning building an IDE 
> with eclipse?  I've just experimented with highlighting and content 
> assist, but I'm missing all the parsing stuff (the xml editor provided 
> by the eclipse wizard does not even provide content assist)... I'm 
> reading the IBM tutorial "create a commercial-quality eclipse IDE", but 
> it does not provide a complete plugin to experiment with (although it 
> provides nice code snippets).
> 
> thanks in advance
> 	Lorenzo
>