+1 for the light version The IDEA IDE is the way to follow. It has all the features you are mentioning for the light version, but it is not free. The autocomplete feature is so much useful that we already bought one licence becouse it speeds up the tapestry web apps development significantly.
Sent from my iPad On 7. feb. 2012, at 06:27, Gavin Lei <gavingui2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > After discussion with my GSoC mentor Igor Drobiazko, we think there > are two ways for TapestryTools to go: > 1. build TapestryTools on WTP, and keep improving it > 2. build a brand new simple tool which supplies some special Tapestry5 > features, and it can run without WTP > > Solution 1 will make TapestryTools more powerful, but meanwhile, it > will make it more complex and hard to improve, hard to install and we > should keep synchronous with Eclipse WTP's release version. Not > unfavorable for this tool's long term development. > > If we build TapestryTools without Eclipse WTP in solution 2, maybe we > will lost some brilliant features, such as palette drag and drop > things, but it will make TapestryTools lightweight (just a normal > Eclipse plug-in, does not need many special dependencies),more focus, > easy to install, easy to use. And also, we can supply practical > features: > > 1) very easy installation in different Eclipse version > 2) Tapestry page/component creation wizard > 3) command to switch between tml and java > 4) Autocompletion features, includes two aspects: > * Autocomplete of properties from the .java page when editing the .tml file > * Tapestry built in and custom components autocompletion function in tml > > And optional features: > 1) import Tapestry jar of special version to project > 2) validation function in Tapestry .tml file source view > Supplies semantic validation of the Tapestry standard tag > libraries for both EL and non-EL attribute values in *.tml file > 3) hyperlink function in Tapestry .tml file source view > Hyperlink to the Java editor from property and method referenced > in the Expression Language(EL) of a tag-attribute, click (CTRL + > property or method ), it will jump to the corresponding Java Class > file. > > And now, we are still in ideas collection period, any feature demands > from open source community is welcome. Or if you have any advises, > please let me know, thank you. > > --------------------------------- > Best Regards > Gavin Lei (雷银) > Email: gavingui2...@gmail.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org
