How close are we to Eclipse?

Hey everybody.

Just thinking.. as Jamiga is looking like it's making good progress (which is no mean feat!), how far away are we from a basic but functional version of Eclipse?

A proper GUI based IDE with integrated debugger would make developing SO much easier!

do you see the sun??

I believe the GUI stuff is what is missing from jamiga. so some base stuff is done, but zero GUI part of eclipse. probably quite a ways to get there. Something I'm hoping for too!

Yeah, that's my understanding of it - no GUI yet. But I imagine that'll come fairly soon now the framework is working (which is no mean feat!).
I just long for the day when I can run a program from my editor, debug it with the editor, and watch all the variables from the GUI and stuff - like Eclipse does, in other words :)

@broadblues

Yep - maybe some day it will integrate db101.

I thnik we are closer to NetBeans, since NetBeans uses Swing, where Eclipse uses SWT. Swing is part of the Java standard, and SWT is not. Both require some amount of native stuff to be implemented, and Swing (and AWT) are supported in GNU Classpath, but SWT would be implemented beside this.
I think this is mostly true, I haven't looked into SWT much though.

You could always find out with Digital Universe

@Spirantho Quote:
I'm doubting that. I think implementing all the Java-to-OS parts needed by the GUI will be a big job, although maybe not requiring the ingenuity required to get the Java interpreter working in the first place.