Hi Folks, I have spent quite some time in Eclipse during the last days, working through "The Guide". And looking back, I have three main reasons why something did not work even though it should.
Typos for fasttyping
Typos for false knowing
unknown exact name, often resulting in typos
What tools besides copy & paste do you use to ease this burden in your environment ? I am currently using Eclipse 3.4 with
"jBPM & jPDL Tools 3.1.7",
Freemarker Editor and "XML Editor & Tools",
"WST XML Core 3.0.4",
Teniga javascript 1.0.0,
JBoss Freemarker IDE 1.0.2
The tagcompletion is, however, rather bleak. Is there more out there ? Manual extensions or other ?
Hi, we use the SIDE-Labs open source IDE (http://www.side-labs.org), which is called SIDE. It is based on Eclipse and provides a set of graphical tools and generators to help to develop Alfresco applications. It's the same kind of tools than jBPM & jPDL tools but covers a much wider perimeter.
SIDE provides: * a content type designer AND generator, so you don't need to write any content model, the tool does it for you * a form designer accessible through a REST service, so you can integrate forms very easily in your application, and everything is stored in the Alfresco repository * a workflow designer (a different one from jPDL tools), which allows you to link with content types. Worflows and forms can be integrated toghether so you can create paperless applications * a view designer AND generator for Alfresco share * a portal designer AND generator for Alfresco and Liferay so you can integrate your application in Liferay, Alfresco acting as a content provider through REST
Moreover, * basic webscripts are generated on each content type and view to manage CRUD operations, so you just have to focus on your application hard points * a SQL module is provided so you can easily manage dynamic list of values and write complex reports with joins
