WideStudio IDE

Today it happened to be to find out about WideStudio IDE primarily developed in Japan.  It’s an open source GUI based application development environment providing support for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. It has been developed in C++. The following features really attract the cross platform developers.

• Multi platform application development. For example, if the application is developed in Windows, can also run in Linux
• Multi Encoding support for Unicode (UTF8), EUCJP and SJIS. It handles encoding independently of the encoding of the underlying platform.
• Freely available for personal and business use.  No need to publish the source
• Application development is possible for Desktop, large server and even for embedded devices
• Supports C, C++, Java, Perl, Ruby, Python, OCaml
• Multi Widget Toolkit support

There are many good open source IDEs are available for applicatin development presently.  God bless open source.

Eclipse

Eclipse is open development platform. I have been trying to learn it for a long time as it facilitates Android platform application development. I have got hands on it at last. It seems the tool is excellent and provides a lot of feature which I used to dream about.

I started it with Welcome page and tried to explore the different features starting from the view to creating a new Hello World application. Yeah the same one which was created by Brian Kerningham and Dennis Ritchie in C programming. It’s fun to create it a step by step procedures for Java.

Eclipse is really well thought application development environment having the following features.

- Different versions of the same components are easily available

- Project creation step guides

- File movement within the workbench

- Perspective concept thought it’s similar, but really well arranged

- Refactor feature for creating new functions from existing code

- Quick outline view

- Highlighting errors while writing the codes

- Tool finding the required import packages

- Hierarchy view of the project

- Look and feel is decent too and so on..

My personal suggestion is that it’s worth to try it. I will surely write about it in the future.