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The move of the Notes Client to an architecture based on Eclipse is seen as a good move by most people. Recently, though, I ran into an issue that you might need to be aware of. One of the other applications I use to develop web applications is Aptana Studio, which is also built upon Eclipse. I hadn't been in it recently, so when I fired it up last week, it asked me to download a bunch of new updates. Halfway through the installation, it failed because it wasn't able to access/update a certain .jar file. The worst part was that the failure completely hosed my configuration and caused the application to be unusable.
After much debugging, I determined that the install failed because I had Notes 8.0.1 running at the same time. After blowing away the configuration and shutting down Notes, I was able to successfully upgrade Aptana to the latest release.
So the lesson learned is to make sure all your Eclipse based applications are shut down before you try to upgrade one of them.
Created 5/5/2008 8:39:48 PM email |
This is the first I heard of Aptana Studio in the Notes circle. (1) Do you use this in developing Domino web applications? (2)Would you recommend this for Domino web developers?
Created 5/6/2008 7:48:27 PM email | website
I use it for developing CSS and HTML pages. Once I get the look and feel like I want, I transfer it into Notes. It's so much easier to write valid CSS/HTML/JavaScript in Aptana than in Notes. Of course, the price is right....Free!
The interface for Aptana is very Eclipse like, so it would be a great way for Notes Developers to get used to using a different IDE. Give it a try and let me know what you think.