Curl Announces Major Eclipse-Focused Changes for Curl IDE, Dev Tools -- ADTmag

Curl Announces Major Eclipse-Focused Changes for Curl IDE, Dev Tools

By Becky Nagel
April 22, 2008

Earlier this month Curl, developers of the Curl development platform for RIA applications, announced that the company has joined the not-for-profit Eclipse Foundation, developers on the open source Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE).

As part of the announcement, Curl said it will eventually replace all of the current Curl development tools with a set of Eclipse-based plugins. It also said it will replace its proprietary Curl IDE with an entirely new Eclipse-based IDE. The current Curl IDE will then be renamed "Curl Classic."

"Today's programmers expect to do much of their programming in an integrated development environment (IDE) without having to jump around to unrelated and disconnected tools," the company said of the upcoming changes. "Curl understands the developer's need for an ecosystem of tools with a common interface and behavior."

Curl said it expects to release the first beta of the new IDE in "mid-2008."

"The first CDE release will include all the functionality of the Curl Classic IDE, including the Curl language sensitive editor, debugger, search, deployment capabilities, Visual Layout Editor and much more," the company continued. "Future releases of the CDE will integrate the Curl Visual Layout Editor into the Eclipse framework as a Design Perspective, and substantially improve other programming productivity features such as error highlighting in the source-code editor, language sensitive navigation, refactoring and code assistance."

For more information on this announcement, go here.

About the Author

Becky Nagel is vice president of AI for 1105 Media, where she specializes in training internal and external customers on maximizing their business potential via a wide variety of generative AI technologies as well as developing cutting-edge AI content and events. She's the author of "ChatGPT Prompt 101 Guide for Business Uses," regularly leads research studies on generative AI business usage, and serves as the director of AI Boardroom, a new resource for C-level executives looking to excel in the AI era. Prior to her current position she was a technical leader for 1105 Media's Web, advertising and production teams as well as editorial director for a suite of enterprise technology publications, including serving as founding editor of PureAI.com. She has 20 years of enterprise technology journalism experience, and regularly speaks and writes about generative AI, AI, edge computing and other cutting-edge technologies. She can be reached at [email protected].