What are some good environments for developing gadgets...
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Jun 2003
Q.
What are some good environments for developing gadgets for Novell Portal Services?
A.
You can really use any development environment you like, but I would recommend one that supports the Ant build tool. There's an Ant build script you can you that will assist with compiling and packaging your gadgets for you. I would also recommend an environment that supports XML/XSL, as well as Java, as your gadgets will require all of these elements working together. The IDEs that are available that meet the above requirements that I'm aware of include the following:
Novell exteNd Workbench 4.1
Eclipse 2.1 (www.eclipse.org)
IDEA from IntelliJ (www.intellij.com)
Jbuilder (www.borland.com)
Visual Cafe
Why bother with Ant? It makes it easy to control your gadget build environment. While technically it's not needed, once you use it you won't look back!
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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