Development Environment

featherlite is programmed in the object oriented java programming language.

The extension and specialization of featherlite to a specific application is performed by modeling in the featherlite business process modeling language, building individualized user interfaces and by injecting special rules and conditions to the featherlite programming interfaces.

Featherlite does not come with its own integrated development environment (IDE). Featherlite is intended to be used with an IDE. Since featherlite uses some of the core functionality of the Eclipse platform, the Eclipse IDE is a good choice to build your own applications.

Not much has to be said about why we use the Eclipse IDE. The Eclipse IDE is one of the most sophisticated development tools in the Java world. It comes with a lot of tools for developing not only pure Java based applications, but also for WEB development, documentation and other. All this is open source and free of charge.

For featherlite Eclipse is not only just a development environment. Starting with version 3, Eclipse comes with a framework to build rich client applications as well with its own OSGI implementation. We used both when developing the first versions of the featherlite framework and we still do, since it allows us to rapidly develop new components and integrate them into the landscape of featherlite components.

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