Re: [orion-dev] Regarding Orion Web IDE PHP Editor (GSoC)

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Karol Gusak <karol@xxxxxxxx> 
> I'd like to make it a plugin too! However my
work won't rather be
> entirely client-side as I plan to use ANTLR (which is Java) to parse
> PHP files and to make code autocompletion upon it, using REST API.
> That would mean making Eclipse plugin for server-side, right?

Yes. That shouldn't be a problem from a technical
perspective. This does mean it is a bit more work for the community to
try out your stuff as it is being developed. I.e., they would need to run
their own server with your server side parts installed in order to try
it, or you would need to host a public server running your service that
people could use. If your plugin was pure client-side, it eliminates the
problem of making a server available at all. However I completely understand
that it is hard to write great language tools purely on the client, and
having server side services for the heavy lifting certainly makes sense
in the long run.

John