Eclipse Zone - Comments for "Who Needs an Online IDE?"

@ZvikiYou've made my

jeervin — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:04:40 -0400

@Zviki

You've made my argument in far better IT-Business speak than I ever could. :)

@James, Check out this post

zvikico — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:02:29 -0400

@James,

Check out this post and my comment there.

The major difference is that Firefox is consumer oriented and Eclipse is enterprise oriented, so it's not head to head competition. Nevertheless, there's a great opportunity here for Eclipse.

You know what about Eclipse

jeervin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:01:46 -0400

You know what about Eclipse as competition to Firefox? It seems to me that the model of an OSGi container based RCP that is more easily provisioned would be a better place to focus. I know that everything is right now all hyped on running from within a browser, but that wave will pass. What you need is another answer to allow for easier provisioning and to leverage the computer on the client side better. It seems that OSGi bundles that can be better provisioned is a better way to go. It better allows for architectures that are not only client server, but indeed can blur the line between the two.

That's true. I touched the

zvikico — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:06:02 -0400

That's true. I touched the IDE side in this article. I plan to focus on the platform in a future post. I agree that there's real value.

BTW, I would love to see IBM Symphony running inside my Mac first.

There is something more

marcos.pereira — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:20:28 -0400

There is something more about Eclipse going to online land: as you said, Eclipse is a platform and so, you will get more than an IDE. You get anything that could be created over the platform, as word processors, per instance. Imagine IBM Symphony running inside firefox.

Kind Regards