Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Eclipse .NET

A couple years ago I blogged about IKVM.NET, an implementation of Java for Mono and the Microsoft .NET Framework. It sounds like it's still under active development. I saw a reference the other day which mentioned running Eclipse 3.1 under IKVM.NET. So I decided to give it a try. It's not completely bug free but it works:

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It takes longer to load than Eclipse running under a JVM but once loaded, the performance seems fine. Although it's hard to imagine why you might want to run Eclipse like this, it certainly is an amazing technical feat.

In case you're curious, the RSS perspective in the screenshot is an RSS Reader plug-in. More on that in another post.
posted by Bob at 3/22/2006 09:00:00 PM  | | digg | del.icio.us | reddit