IntelliJWOPlugin

Eclipse with the WOLips plugin was the default IDE for WebObjects and Wonder applications for the last 10 years and still is. However since I migrated my applications to maven projects debugging using Eclipse became painful. My impression is that the issues are more Eclipse than WOLips related, so I am not hoping for improvement quite soon.

So I started this experimental plugin for IntelliJ. My first approach is a working run configuration so I can finally debug my applications again.

This first version supplies a working run configuration that starts your WebObjects application with a default set of WO-Parameters (e. g. "-WOPort -1"). My next step is trying to add a UI component for these parameters in the run configuration.

Restrictions

This plugin will only work with mavenized WebObjects/Wonder applications!

Installation

Obtain the jar from releases and store on your disk
Open "Settings... in IntelliJ, choose "Plugins" and "Install plugin from disk..."
Choose the plugin jar from above
You will be asked to restart the IDE to activate

After that the plugin is available. For running your application, create a WebObjects run configuration, choose your main class and go for it!

Creating a Run Configuration

Create a new run configuration from the Templates, choose "WebObjects" template

Things work slightly different than using Eclipse:

The run configuration detects whether you have full maven layout or a mavenized fluffy bunny layout. For full maven layout, the nature org.maven.ide.eclipse.maven2Nature is enforced in the .project file. Otherwise it enforces the nature not being set
The working directory is automatically set to ./target/<appname>.woa
A maven goal process-resources is enforced on starting your WO application.

Additionally if starting with a JDK version higher than 8, these additional VM options are enforced by default (you can change this in the run configuration):

--add-exports=java.base/sun.security.action=ALL-UNNAMED
--add-exports=java.base/sun.util.calendar=ALL-UNNAMED
--add-opens=java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED

A future version will have a UI editor for these options, too

Feature list

Run Configuration
New WOComponent dialog
First draft of customer editor with tabs for .woo / .api (no syntax stuff yet!)
Switch actions CMD-ALT-1 and -2 for switching between WOComponent file and Java file

TODO list / Next steps

add new project wizard
validator for wo components html content
validator for wo components wod files
work on custom editor for .wo folders ** add hooks for delete wo component (delete associated files) ** add hook for renaming