I have been away for about 2 years working for the “dark side” and now find LN/Domino uses “Eclipse”. As my business partner and I have a bid in for some LN/Domino development I figured this is likely to be something I need to find out about quickly…
Can I assume that the Designer Client has changed markedly from version 6/6.5 or will I still be able to find my way around easily? I will be looking into Eclipse shortly to try and get my head around it but any pointers the forum can offer would be greatly appreciated.
The designer client layout is more or less the same. “Database” is now referred to as “Application”. There are quite a few new features as well like composite applications, XPages, consuming web services, etc.
Shouldn’t be a serious learning curve if you have used an earlier client.
The thing I find is that I cannot work properly with eclipse. I tend to switch locations about 20 times a day and every time it gives out stupid errors. Other than that it’s horribly slow and a huge memory hog. Still haven’t found anything good about it.
How did this even get to the point where it was released? This is FP1 and I am literally sitting here dying trying to use it… my energy is being sucked out of me with every crash and every time I have to force it to shut down. Thanks be to that KillNotes still works with this version…
Subject: You will find around your way easy enough.
Eclipse (and XPages and the LSX for Symphony shown as Beta at Lotusphere) add more options - interesting ones. Stil, all the old stuff is still there.
For the beginning all you need to know on eclipse is what an perspective is (to get back the settings of your windows via window - reset perspektive, onve messed up). For the rest, I would coun’t XPages as something as interesting and easier to catch up, if you have not been into Java ever.
Just my thoughts. It seams to become more Java since 8 was introduced. And this might be the final trend.