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The Eclipse IDE for Curl!

Posted by RMH Jun 9, 2008

We just announced that the Curl Development tools for Eclipse (CDE) is available in beta! The CDE beta is a milestone in the general migration of all our tools to the Eclipse platform. You can still use the Curl IDE, which is written entierly in Curl and is excellent, but if you are an Eclipse user you can now develop applications in Eclipse 3.3 or later. The reason we are moving to Eclipse is pretty simple: Eclipse dominates the IDE market and has a huge ecosystem. Moving Curl development to Eclipse allows you to leverage hundreds of other tools built specifically for Eclipse and allows us to better serve the Eclipse market of developers.

If you prefer the Curl IDE than please stick with that, but if you are interested in learning how to use Eclipse or if you already use Eclipse than give the Curl Development tools for Eclipse a whirl - I think you'll find that they are excellent. You can send feedback about bugs (there will probably be a few as this is a beta) directly to Curl's engineers at cde_beta 'att' curl.com. If you are having trouble using the Eclipse Curl development enviorment you can post questions to ask-the-expert and we will respond as quickly as we can. We want the beta to be a success and in order for that to happen we need you to help us build a great product. Download the CDE (Curl Development tools for Eclipse) today and tell us what you think!

You can access the CDE here - it includes all the Eclipse plug-ins you need and documentation. Have fun!!




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Jun 9, 2008 8:17 AM Reply Click to view friedger's profile friedger

Oh great!

After I removed Curl IDE 7 (beta) the CDE worked for me.

Jun 26, 2008 12:15 AM Reply Click to view fukuta's profile fukuta

Are there any restrictions to download the CDE?
I tried to download but I couldn't first time. I could get it once I filled in an e-mail address ending with '.com' on the form of the download page. But with e-mail address with '.co.jp', nothing happens and it said no error message on clicking the 'continue' button of the page.

Jun 26, 2008 1:21 PM Reply Click to view Duke's profile Duke in response to: fukuta

I think the form is sharing some checking with our other IDE downloads, where there was a desire to redirect Japanese users to use the www.curlap.com site. But I do not know if it was intentional to keep Japanese users from using the CDE beta, since it is a beta and no Japanese version is yet available. As you noticed, the form does not seem to tell you why it is not working for Japanese users.