Is there any free software plugin which adds RelaxNG support to Eclipse? I mean syntax highlighting, showing hints after Ctrl+Space pressed, etc.
I have found only some articles about this topic and they are several years old [as of 2013]. They say that RelaxNG support is developing in Webtools, but now there is no mention of RelaxNG.
So does anybody know something more about this, or know some other free software project (actually working) which add RelaxNG support into Eclipse?
The oXygen XML Editor (commercial software) has such support - it is available as an Eclipse plugin.
See: http://www.oxygenxml.com/
I suggest that you install wildwebdeveloper which provides now relaxng support. Validation completion in xml files based on relaxng xml schema/ relaxng compact syntax schema should work and it is free.
You can see those relaxng features with vscode since wildwebdeveloper uses the same xml language server than vsode-xml
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Is it possible to create an extension or plugin for Eclipse that gives support to a specific language? Where i can find information about that? Also, can i repackage Eclipse, along with that plugin, and distribute the new package, just like PDT, for example?
Have a look at this page:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/The_Official_Eclipse_FAQs
There is a section "Implementing Support for Your Own Language" at the bottom of that page.
You should definitely have a look at Xtext which allows you quite easily to get first grade ide support for your own langage.
http://www.eclipse.org/Xtext/
It's possible. In fact support for specific languages is implemented as plug-ins. See eclipse platform plug-in developers guide and then search for details. Or look for some book like eclipse plugins.
You can repackage and distribute new package. In fact eclipse license gives you more freedom in this than for example GPL.
Is there some kind of Checkstyle plug-in for Eclipse available for ColdFusion.
There aren't really any coding specifications for ColdFusion. Sean Corfield wrote one for Macromedia's internal development departments that some folks use, but there really isn't a set of coding conventions and rules that the community adheres to. Thus, there is no plugin to test that your code follows those rules.
That said, if you have standards that you prefer/enforce in your company or team, then you can use the code formatter in ColdFusion Builder 2 (still in public beta, at this time) to quickly check/update source files.
You set the formatting guidelines in the Eclipse preferences, and then you can run the formatter from the menu: Edit > Format (Keyboard shortcut: cmd/control + shift + F)
I search around a bit for cf specific Checkstyle tool, no luck. I think since CF is a tagging language as much as a scripting language, it lags behind in tools like this. You could check out the coldfusion specific eclipse plugin, it may have some of its own type checkstyle functionality.
http://cfeclipse.org/
Hoping this is still relevant to someone...
Long time ago, I've tried an approach using checkstyle regexp tags.
I wrote a blog post, check if there is any useful hint:
http://rcastagno.blogspot.it/2009/09/checkstyle-50-regexps-and-eclipse.html
There is a static code checker, written in ColdFusion, FOR ColdFusion. see https://github.com/wellercs/CodeChecker. There is also a linter that can plug in to Eclipse or ColdFusion Builder, called CFLint. See https://github.com/cflint/CFLint for that tool.
So CodeChecker is a stand-alone application and CFLint may be used, as I remember, stand-alone or as a plug-in to a number of IDEs.
You can easily add rules and guides to CodeChecker, I haven't tried with CFLint.
I've been using netbeans for a couple of years now, mainly on PHP / CakePHP projects.
Recently I've started using Coldfusion, which isn't directly supported. I've found, however, that if I use PHP as a project type, I can load the files and the HTML Renderer does an admirable job with the Coldfusion tags.
I want to make it better and help the renderer to understand some of the tags and, hopefully, thereby improve code indentation and syntax highlighting.
My question, then, is how can I access the HTML dictionary to extend the vocabulary?
NB: This isn't a 'which IDE' question so don't recommend them. I want to know if and how I can achieve this in NetBeans and only Netbeans.
Here are a few ideas. If you render it in HTML, you could probably add a custom name space to the HTML. If setup correctly it can help NetBeans realize that the tags are valid and shouldn't show as an error. It might not give you all the preview and WYSIWYG functionality, but it may be better than what you are getting now. I have only done this on other platforms, but I'm pretty sure NetBeans supports it.
Also I think that NetBeans will let you add CustomTags doing something like this:
http://wiki.netbeans.org/CustomTagActions
Just to note, in terms of ColdFusion the other alternatives are NotePad++ with the CF plugin and IntelliJ now supports CF.
I really like Eclipse - the number of plugins available (SVN, Javascript, CSS, CodCollab, Flashbuilder etc.) is what makes it indispensable IMHO.
I am, however, looking forward to the new version of CFBuilder.
This answer on the same/similar question suggests that there is nothing out there for ColdFusion on netbeans : NetBeans as an editor for ColdFusion scripts?
If you want to build your own ColdFusion plugin for netbeans you need to look at plugin development; http://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/60/nbm-google.html You could use the Dictionary project from cfeclipse as a basis for your plugin. See this Google Group thread for a bit more information
I came to know that eclipse can be used for other languages as well. But will it give the same comfort level as using java? Is there anybody who has used eclipse for other languages?
I've used Eclipse for both C/C++, Ruby, Erlang, and a few others. None of these are as tightly integrated with Eclipse as Java is, but CDT (C/C++) gives Visual Studio a good run for its money. I usually use Emacs for the other ones.
Yes, you can use Eclipse for many languages other than Java. I personally use Eclipse to code in C++, Perl, PHP, and do JavaScript as well inside of it. While it also supports plugins for connecting and executing queries against databases, I tend to prefer other options there such as Toad or Oracle SQL Developer. There are numerous other plugins to support many other languages that you can find either through the Update Manager or a simple Google search, many of which are excellent.
As a side note, if you're not using Mylyn, you're missing out.
Eclipse is used as a base for other language and tool:
for example As3 with FlashBuilder; PHP, Javascript with Aptana studio, C,Python,... with other plugins, etc...
You can found here for example some plugins for other languages.
I've used it for Javascript (jQuery): compile-time checks are a godsend to the barren lands of javascript.
For Java developement I feel most comfortable using Eclipse.
I tried using Eclipse for coding with Python. There is PyDev, an Eclipse plugin that can be used to work with the Python code in Eclipse. Though PyDev provides features like Code Completion, Syntax highlighting etc, I felt comfortable to use editors like gvim or emacs rather than Eclipse
for working with Python code. YMMV
Yes, Eclipse supports many other languages.
But you knew that already when you saw http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
So, I guess that you are asking how well it supports them...
It is possible to have Eclipse without Java. Imagine taking that and then adding Java support. Compare that with CDT for C++ and - in my experience - they are pretty much the same.
Yes, Eclipse is slanted at Java, and I doubt that anyone will deny that, but at the same time it tries to be fair and generic and pretty much achieves it. Any few % less other language support doesn't matter when you realize that no other IDE compares.
Bottom line, whatever your language, you will be hard pushed to beat Eclipse.
And that's before I get started on the myriad plugins ...
Not only programming, debugging with Eclipse is sweet. Beside Java, the other languages I mostly work on Eclipse are PHP and Python.
While I was working on the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) project we often said that the Java Development Tools (JDT) were the model that we referenced for features for Web related languages. I think JDT has set the bar and many other projects that implement language specific tooling try to reach the JDT bar. I don't know that any have or that copying everything about JDT is the point but I do think the Java tools are exemplary development tools.
Are there any freely available Ada plugins eclipse. Eclipse is my main IDE and I occasionally need to read and modify some Ada, having it all in the one IDE would be ideal.
For Eclipse, AdaCore distributes and maintains the GNATBench plug-in, though I've never personally used it. I believe it is not GNAT specific, so it may still be of value even if you're using a different compiler--but I could be wrong on that :-)
If you're using the GNAT Ada compilation system, you've got a fully Ada-aware IDE in their GNAT Programming Studio (GPS), which is what I've been using ever since it finally stabilized a few years ago. It's got the jump-to-definition, get references, specialized search, etc., capabilities that you'd expect.
These, as well as the rest of AdaCore's GPL Ada development environment and tools, are available from AdaCore's Libre website. Download page is here.
If all you need is syntax highlighting, then maybe EclipseColorer will do the trick for you? It's a general-purpose extensible syntax highlighting engine that has definitions for Ada out of the box.
You may also want to check out Hibachi:
The goal of the Hibachi project is to create an Ada Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and tooling framework for the Eclipse platform.