August 15, 2005
What does Lepido give you?
Jeremy and I have been exploring the different things you might use Eclipse for. We've been stalwarts of the "less is more" approach to development environments: BBEdit, Textmate, JEdit and a shell being some of the preferred options. One thing I haven't seen much noise about yet is what Lepido gives you when working with Cocoon.
The first thing you get is a more graphical view of sitemaps (click the images for larger versions). A view of the components in your sitemap:
A list of the resources in your sitemap:
And the pipelines:
You also get Views, Action Sets, Flow, and Source views.
You also get a Forms definition editor - though I'm having some trouble getting that to work right now.
The installation prerequisites suggest you download EMF, GEF, JEM and WTP but you can actually install them via Software Updates within Eclipse.
I'll write a little more when I've had a chance to really play with this stuff.
Posted by savs at August 15, 2005 1:23 PM