|
|
Featured White Papers
- Why choose an Open Source BPM?
- 10 FAQs on Business Process Management
- Best Practices for Getting Started with BPM
- Free Your Devs From The Pain Of Java Redeploys
- Increase Velocity 40% by Using JRebel
- What Developers Want: The End of Application Redeploys
- Developer Productivity Report: Java Tools, Tech, Devs, and Data
- Coding with JRebel: Java Forever Changed
- Utilizing Fast Testing to Transform Java Development
- Do You Really Get Classloaders?
- Pragmatic Continuous Delivery with Jenkins, Nexus, and LiveRebel
- Your Next Java Web App: Less XML, No Long Restarts, Fewer Hassles
- Coding with JRebel, Java Forever Changed
- 2012 Developer Productivity Report: Java Tools, Tech, Devs, and Data
Sponsored Links
Sponsored Links
Optimize with a SATA RAID Storage Solution
Range of capacities as low as $1250 per TB. Ideal if you currently rely on servers/disks/JBODs
Review: Four killer cloud IDEs
Browser-based JSFiddle, Icenium, Cloud9, and Codenvy stretch from client-side JavaScript and HTML5 to server-side Java and Web stacks
Page 5 of 5
Codenvy IDE: Java and Web stacks
The Codenvy IDE is another incredibly rich code development environment with deep connections to a number of hosting platforms like Amazon's
Elastic Beanstalk and AppFog. There are at least a half-dozen options, and they light up depending upon which type of application
you want to create. The IDE offers three types of Java projects (library, WAR, and Spring) and the classic dynamic languages
such as Ruby, Python, and PHP.
Java is clearly one of its strengths. Working in Codenvy IDE is not much different from using Eclipse. Most of the features are similar, and the code highlighting and editorial support are good. When I first started making subtle mistakes with my code (on purpose, of course, in the name of science), the browser didn't react. Then about five seconds later, the mistake was highlighted and flagged. After watching the network traffic, I came to the conclusion that the editor was often phoning home with big JSON packets full of code and waiting for instructions from the mothership before flagging my errors. The quality of the suggestions were great. Codenvy would even flag variables that were defined correctly but not used.
The connection with the various deployment platforms will attract users because Codenvy is a more effective front end for managing your code. There are custom tools for the seven major clouds that make configuration that much simpler. The Amazon dialog, for instance, will let you juggle your instances and data stored in Amazon S3 buckets.
Further, I can imagine deploying my code through this service in order to use the debugging features to get everything running. The ability to tweak some of the code and redeploy is not only useful, but it offers a more sophisticated interaction than simply pushing code up onto the server with Git. The Codenvy debugging tools are quite nice. I'm not sure I'll always be willing to wait for a JSON call to highlight the issues with the code. But if your Internet connection is fast, Codenvy may be enough for hard-core development.
The free version offers unlimited public projects. If you want some privacy, the basic subscription is $9 per month; advanced subscriptions that support more projects and dedicated VMs are $49 and $99.
Codenvy is a rich, sophisticated IDE with nice debugging features. It feels more like using Eclipse than working in a browser.
This article, "Review: 4 killer cloud IDEs," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in application development and cloud computing at InfoWorld.com. For the latest business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.
- Feedback