Overview of EclipseShell features
Fuse Eclipse with dynamic/scripting languages… and what do you get? EclipseShell
Features (full feature list):
- Interactive editor to edit and execute expressions complete with
- Syntax highlighting
- AutoComplete (methods on objects, global vars,...)
- Text hovers
- Javadoc information (where available)
- Languages
- JRuby (running inside Eclipse process or outside)
- Beanshell (running inside Eclipse process or outside)
- Ruby (controlling Ruby irb from inside Eclipse)
- Javascript (running inside Eclipse using the Mozilla Rhino engine)
- more languages coming up
- Java based language interpreters will be setup with Eclipse project CLASSPATH
- Easy way to
- build up code
- store execution history
- share code execution history
- Extensible via Eclipse plugins
- add new languages via update manager as they become available
A look at EclipseShell
EclipseShell using JRuby to access some JMX MBeans.
