Re: Web-enabling Ada with AWS, Mon 11 Apr 2005 20:00, Ada-Belgium

[Jeff C <jcreem@yahoo.com>]

Alex R. Mosteo wrote:
> Jeff C wrote:
> 
>> Alex R. Mosteo wrote:
>>
>>> Dirk Craeynest wrote:
>>>
>>>> 20:00-20:15 - Eclipse plug-in for Ada (ObjectAda or GNAT)
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Speaker
>>>> Patricia Langle, Aonix France
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I keep hearing about this Eclipse IDE. They chant excellences, at 
>>> least for its original Java usage. Does anyone know what would be the 
>>> extent of such a plug-in? Could it eventually be an alternative to GPS?
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Alex.
>>
>>
>>
>> I know several developers that love it for Java and C++. Several 
>> vendors are also embracing it as the base framework for hosting their 
>> tools (e.g. Wind River's new tool suite is eclipse based).
>>
>> It clearly is an alternative to GPS (not saying it is a better or 
>> worse alternative...but it is one). It does not "appear" to be open 
>> source. It certainly is not freely downloadable last time I checked.
> 
> 
> This has changed or something (I had the idea it has always been open 
> source), since I already downloaded and installed it some time ago, but 
> then I never did any development with it. I've just launched it off and 
> there's no restrictions apparently.
> 

Eclipse is open source but a plug-in is needed for each new language. 
There is a "Free" C++ plugin. Aonix has written an Ada one but it does 
not (appear) to be freely available. Note that a full Eclipse language 
plug in is non trivial because it is capable of doing more than just an 
editor that calls a compiler.

So are you saying you have previously downloaded the Aonix Ada Eclipse 
plugin or  just Exclipse in general?