OT: Netbeans ported to JFX?

[Tom Schindl]

Hi,

I've thrown Eclipse at it [1] - performance is ok but certainly not
better than pure SWT but the reason for that is maybe my custom SWT port.

What you see is not a rewrite of Eclipse code itself (which is 99%
unmodified) but an alternate SWT implementation which has the big
draw-back that some part of the IDE (and I assume the same is true for
some parts of Netbeans) are written with a direct mode toolkit in mind.

For modulare application frameworks I currently know of:
* e(fx)clipse - which leverages the Eclipse4 Platform
* eFX - which leverages the Netbeans Platform
* JacpFX - IIRC built solely above OSGi Felix
* jrebirth

IMHO doing a simple rewrite is not the right way - start with one of the
platforms (Eclipse/Netbeans/IntelliJ) and rethink the IDE. What I mean
is: Doing a rewrite simply for the sake of rewriting is wasted time and
in case of rewriting Netbeans/Eclipse/IntelliJ/... it's a huge huge huge
waste of time.

Tom

[1]
http://tomsondev.bestsolution.at/2014/03/26/eclipse-on-javafx-a-short-video-and-next-steps/

On 10.07.14 09:06, Robert Krüger wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Jeff Martin <jeff at reportmill.com> wrote:
>> My thought is that JavaFX is perfect for an IDE targeted to education, like Greenfoot and BlueJ:
>>
>>         SnapCode: SnapCode is the first and only pure JavaFX IDE
>>         YouTube Overview: SnapCode JavaFX Overview
>>
>> SnapCode has visual code editing ("Snap-coding"), a sprite kit, graphics/sound editing, a runtime browser/player with animated transitions and more. It also has most of the features you expect in a modern IDE. Hopefully this is a great way to attract a new generation of developers and bring JavaFX to all Java developers.
>>
>> What it doesn't have is very much in the way of resources. If anyone wants to help, let me know. If Oracle would like to kick in an engineer or a few dollars, I wouldn't turn that away either.
>>
>> We need something like a "JavaFX Playground" before Apple Swift-boat's us. :-)
> 
> I have to say I passionately disagree here. Of course, everyone has
> different requirements/expectations. I am currently looking at JavaFX
> as a candidate technology for commercial products in a market where
> people are used to native applications. So far, I think JavaFX, from a
> developer point of view, is great and the dedication of the dev team
> and the transparency of the dev process are outstanding but it still
> suffers from maturity problems that usually go away after a lot of
> serious applications have been thrown at it, not by another Ensemble
> or educational tool. Even big finance or medical or system management
> applications may not be a good enough test for some areas because
> their users are typically more forgiving in certain areas than e.g. a
> photographer or designer using their favourite photo organisation tool
> on a Mac but of course, every application helps and Netbeans is so
> huge that porting it would probably result in a number of new Jira
> issues making the platform better and, as I wrote, I thought with the
> Swing API no longer being developed, it would either have to die or be
> ported anyway.
> 
> BTW, is there any directory of (commercial) JFX applications anyone is aware of?
>