Eclipse (and COBOL)... for giggles...

[gazaloo]

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This is the Elastic COBOL plugin (for Eclipse) running a GUI app in the debugger.

It can be done, but performance (open-jdk6) and available memory make it somewhat painful.

[jackokring]

Why elastic? Does it allow programming bounced checking accounts?

[DuncanKennedy]

Why elastic? Does it allow programming bounced checking accounts?

It's a 'stretch' remembering back over the thirty years since I last wrote anything in COBOL

I've played a bit with Elastic recently, and so far it seems pretty good on the Pi, once the java interpreter finally decides to start running!

[gazaloo]

Performance here will remain sluggish until we get a JVM with JIT.

The Raspberry Pi has the attention of Oracle so hopefully we'll see something in the near future.

[CharlesGodwin]

How did you get Eclipse to start in your RPi? which version?

[gazaloo]

Hi Charles.

I used this Eclipse download (on Raspian with the OpenJDK):

http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/armel ... t/download

It's not quick...

[CharlesGodwin]

Thanks