Alt IDEs for Oz? [was: emacs bad for windows users]

[Bob Calco]

I've been quiet on this list for a while but I can, in light of your
question, announce the development of a Windows IDE for Oz that I'm working
on. 

It's called Amadeus and for the last year or so I've been designing it. This
month I've actually started coding it. I'm breaking it up into 3 editions:

1. Community Edition - Free for download and open-source use. 
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Features of the Community Edition:

	* Integration with CVS so you can install Amadeus, pull down the
source, and compile and configure your system. 

	* Integration with Ozmake so you can create and manage projects
"vsually" and under the hood Amadeus is managing the makefile.oz file for
you.

	* FTP support for uploading your contributions to your MOGUL site,
and downloading.

	* Sophisticated GUI with syntax highlighting, source-based
intellisense, and a browse tree, and Office 2003/VS.NET 2005 look-feel.

	* Native executable -- no need to install .NET as a pre-requisite.

	* Support for C/C++ and popular script languages, custom tools, etc.

	* Basic documentation

2. Personal Edition (Community Edition with tech support for 1 year) $99
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3. Professional Edition - $399
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Additional features of Professional Edition:

	* Wizards to walk you through creating Oz functors and applications
	
	* Wizard to create new native extensions, including an
implementation of SWIG for Oz to simplify writing wrappers to native
libraries and toolkits.

	* Project templates, code templates
	
	* Full documentation, including how to extend the IDE's
functionality

	* Tech support for 1 year

4. Enterprise Edition - $2,199 per single user, volume discounts
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Additional features of Enterprise Edition:

	* Tools for collaborative coding over the Internet

	* Wizards for creating web services and constraint services that use
Oz on the server-side

	* Wizards for starting sophisticated Oz projects, such as
multi-agent systems, including enhanced tutorials.

	* Built-in COM, and .NET, and Java interop functors so you can
leverage existing business objects in n-tier environments.


Tentative release dates:

	1. Community/Personal:  April 15, 2005
	2. Professional:		October 2005
	3. Enterprise:		January 2006

I may have a beta of Community out by January 2005, we'll see.

Incidentally I'm doing this under the aegis of a new company I'm starting,
called SoftCraft Solutions, Inc. Many of the components I'm writing for
Amadeus will make their way into a general programmer's editor I'm calling
CodeCrafter (part of a line of projects, such as WordCrafter for creative
writing, ImageCrafter for graphics manipulation, etc.). But Amadeus will be
a unique product insofar as it deeply integrates with Oz and its various
tools and provides a unique environment---the first multiparadigm IDE, so to
speak. ;)

- Bob



! -----Original Message-----
! From: mozart-users-bounces at ps.uni-sb.de [mailto:mozart-users-
! bounces at ps.uni-sb.de] On Behalf Of Robert Andersson
! Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 7:26 AM
! To: users at mozart-oz.org
! Subject: Alt IDEs for Oz? [was: emacs bad for windows users]
! 
! Hi all!
! 
! This thread raises a question --Do the Mozart team have any ideas
! about having alternative supported IDEs than Emacs, like an
! Eclipse-plugin or as a module for XCode? Though I really would not
! want to replace my Emacs for anything else, but I think if you
! developed, say an eclipse-plugin, this would be a nice addon for the
! Mozart implementation of Oz and for those not being fully Emacs
! compatible. :)
! 
! Yours,
! /robert
! 
! ps. Is Mozart the only Oz implementations around? ds.
! 
! --
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! Swedish Graduate School of Language Technology
! Nordic Graduate School of Language Technology
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