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Ok I have seen several things come up on this subject and was unable to determine which would be best to use to make the most of Joomla and it's plug-ins.

I personally have found that using Aptana is nice but I am still needing to have the Joomla framework load and references made to "what does what?" and "what is what?"

I know there are a few scripts I could create to automate the skeleton of a plug-in but then copying a folder is the same thing and I think it can be better. Aptana aside, I really just want a Joomla IDE, and I don't want a dated library, I want full J1.5 compatibility. Though I must admit there seems like I am just missing something, but as far as I can tell most of the IDE projects have been abandoned. Again I may be wrong but I am not seeing anything updated on any of it for months.

We did delve into Eclipse.

Here's some info if you haven't read it yet. Might help.

http://dev.joomla.org/component/option, ... nners:ide/

I did read that and it is helpful for setting up eclipse. I use Aptana and really am not that familiar with the eclipse interface.

I am aware of the Aptana plug-in for eclipse. I am not seeing how to load the Joomla API into either, which is what I am wanting to do. So when I am type something it pop-ups any matches for classes functions and what ever.

what I want is that if I type "j" into the source

Then I would get a pop-up saying :
so forth and so on

I'm not sure there is an easy way to do that.

There was talk of J!Code last year, but I'm not sure it has moved along as of yet. (See here)

This is to be a Joomla specific plugin for eclipse. Again, I'm not sure where it ended up, or if there has been any progress to date.

Yes there was talk of it and in fact thanks to Andy Miller* it was implemented and can be found at the following link. The only thing I am concerned with is say the package called joomla-jcode-1.0.0.20061212.tar.gz it seems to be the linux package from December 12, 2006, which is outdated in my opinion. Though I have requested to join the project I may just pick-up what he did and completely redo and rename it. I wonder how many would help or what is needed to do.

http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/jcode/frs/

* The other J!code Devs
[list]Louis Landry
Andrew Eddie
Ian MacLennan
Laurens Vandeput
Philippe Ombredanne
Gary Paige
Muhammad Fuad[/list]

I'll have to grab it and give it a run. It would definitely be fun to try, and I need to reinstall eclipse anyway, so why not.

So have you had any luck? what do you see as pro vs cons?