Open Laszlo IDE

[navdeep.mahajan]

Does open laszlo come with an IDE for developing laszlo applications?

[pugmaster]

An IDE is provided that works as an Eclipse plug-in. But it doesn't appear to be actively supported and only works with the following releases of Laszlo 3.4 and 4.0.10. You can find it at http://www.syte.ch/en/laszlo.xml

-- Norman Klein
Author: Laszlo in Action

[rcyeager]

The Eclipse plug-in IDE is a resource hog and barely usable, last I tried. It has been abandoned multiple times, for good reason.

You would think a RIA development tool would have a kick-ass visual IDE to help developers, but alas OL does not.

LZX development is still productive without one, but not having the option probably keeps new developers away.

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[spoco2]

We use the IDE in eclipse for our development, and have been doing so for the past three years. We turned off the visual WYSIWYG pane and the auto building because:
WYSIWYG: Useless for our Object based, dynamic building approach, as our visual objects are not 'placed' on the canvas in the code at all, but rather built up at runtime. So a visual designer would be of no use to us.

Building: Pointless... do you coding directly in a laszlo folder that you can view in a running laszlo server (local or otherwise), and then just make your changes and then refresh your browser.... very quick change->check result->change cycle.

And Eclipse has nice file management and svn tie in.

So... yeah, I don't see that a visual editor is particularly useful for 'heavy' apps, only little prototypes and simple apps really.

[stera]

I'd like to announce the update builds of OpenLaszlo plugin for the NetBeans IDE:
https://nbopenlaszlosupport.dev.java.net/

[karun.chennuri]

You can use netbeans, but you need to install netbeansopenlaszlo plugin to develop any OL application. So far I didn't find any issues with netbeans, it's good and you get good support as well.

[hipik]

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