There were two new Ajax IDE developments this week, one on the GWT and the other on the ZK front. First, Zerocode, the visual designer for ZK, has been incorporated into eZing Builder, the Eclipse-based J2EE development environment.
A little consolidation when it comes to Ajax tools and frameworks is not a bad thing.
Next, Instantiations — whose Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel wrote the book on building Eclipse plugins — has extended their line of WYSIWYG development tools to cover GWT. The product, GWT designer, is available as an Ecplise plugin, dontcha know.
Lot’s of features, but two that I find very sexy:
True Bi-directional Code Generation
Directly generates Java code which can be changed in the graphical editor or directly in source. All changes made directly to the source code will be reflected in the graphical designerExtremely Fast
GWT Designer opens a design in a couple seconds – several times faster than launching the GWT application itself (mostly due to our *proprietary* technique of using ASM for fast bytecode modification). All subsequent edit actions update the Design view in just 300-400 milliseconds
That smells like developer productivity to me. Nothing is worse than messing with generated code, and nothing is more tedious than waiting for a WYSIWYG display to do its sluggish thing.
Thanks for your information. And I have compared several AJAX IDEs thoroughly and I think that JoyiStar AJAX WebShop is characteristic. Maybe you can have a try.