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webOS Eclipse Plug-in Released 7

by Jennifer Chappell Wed, 18 Mar 2009 1:26 am EDT

We're all on the lookout for the Pre's release date to be announced. Many of you developers and first time developers are keeping your eyes out more for Palm to release the SDK.

No news here of Palm releasing that yet, but Palm preSchool has a way that you can at least get your hands wet with webOS by using a webOS Eclipse Plug-in that they, Palm preSchool, have developed.

According to Palm preSchool, you won't be able to run anything yet since the SDK hasn't been officially released. But you can quickly and easily create a project complete with a sample application.

Palm preSchool will eventually supplement the plug-in with tutorials and other development add-ons for webOS. Being big believers in open source, Palm preSchool have opened up the plug-in and hosted the project on Google Code.

Of course this plug-in by Palm preSchool is not the official Eclipse plugin. Palm will be coming out with their own full-featured Eclipse plug-in at a later date along with their Mojo SDK. I think it's great that Palm preSchool has come out with this plug-in in the meantime. Hopefully it'll help out some developers in getting ready for the stuff to come.

Go read more about it at Palm preSchool.

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Posted by dwhitman on Wed, 18 Mar 2009 5:59 am EDT

Did you watch the developer webcast? There's a directory structure and bunch of files you need to set up for each application. The Palm rep clicked a button in the IDE he was using (I forget which one, it was Mac-based) and it set up all that for him automatically, including some standard code-stubs in some of the files. I presume this Eclipse plug-in does the same thing.

Posted by dwhitman on Wed, 18 Mar 2009 2:59 pm EDT

Agreed. I don't expect this plug-in to be a big deal, just to give you an environment to painlessly play around with the structure of a webOS app, the index, assistant, and scene files, etc. None of the mojo goodness.

That said, I'll probably install Eclipse and the plugin to play around. I've done a lot of programming over the years (assembly, Pascal, C, Visual Basic, MS Access), but nothing for the web, and nothing in javascript. I can be getting comfortable with js in a context that fits with what webOS development will be like.

But I'll be signing up and downloading the SDK on day one. :)