Recommended Development Environments

Andrey Ledenyov · 2022-07-05T12:28:01+00:00

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Hello

I am taking the first steps in studying Open Text and Open Script. Tell me what is the recommended development environment and what extensions do professionals recommend using?

Thank's

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Appu Nair

OT's CSIDE is a plugin for Eclipse any standard Eclipse Version would do. Oscript is the proprietary language of OT Content Server(a.k.a livelink). What most of us do is to create a CS server replete with any modules we need on a Windows VM(lots of others use Mac or Uni* flavors) a decent spec like 8 GB 4 core Proc is my current Azure VM .I used to have a 16 GB laptop where I had VMWare and I used to run several VM's of 4 GB and up to hold my livelink versions. Here you install Eclipse and the CSIDE plugin. When CSIDE starts up it will attach to the JVM and internally the OVM contrary to advanced Java Projects this development does not support Remote Java Debugging at least that is what the community is told .I do not regularly develop in Unix but recently with the help of this community moderators I was able to do CSIDE on a RHEL machine as well.

David Henshaw

Andrey - as Appu points out, most developers will have a local VM (VMWare or Hyper-V) running on their laptop/desktop, with a full install of Content Server, to which you "connect" the what is referred to as "CSIDE" (Content Server IDE, which is just Eclipse with a plugin from OpenText).

As the VM will need to run a full install of Content Server, it will need sufficient resources to run a database server, web server, plus the associated processes from Content Server and OTDS.

These days, I find that at a minimum, that the VM will need 4 vCPUs and 8GB RAM. You'll also want it running on a SSD drive.

Performance otherwise will be slow.

Ivan Ivanov

Appu Nair - Hello, dear friend!

Can I use Eclipse IDE for Enterprise Java and Web Developers with OT's CSIDE plugin for OScript?

Could you share the link to download OT's CSIDE plugin for Eclipse?? Content Server OpenText version: Content Server 16.2.4 (2018-03), build 380

Thanks.

Appu Nair

AFAIK SDK Maintenance Paying Customers download it from

URLToFoolBOThttps://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/llisapi.dll?func=ll&objId=67805388&objAction=browse&viewType=1

if your CS is 16.2 it does not need to be matched to its SDK the SDK is backwards compatible(newer the SDK less bugs it has) so I use the latest and greatest SDK upto 10.5.

Your Eclipse Version should be fine

Dave Carpeneto

A few quick notes on this:

Appu is correct in that CSIDE is backwards compatible, and as such the latest CSIDE is always a good thing to have, however please note that some CSIDE features (such as the recent unit test view / functionality) depend on server-side changes that were recently introduced. As such things will work, but some functionality will be missing.
The recent versions of CSIDE require Eclipse 2020-03 (or newer). Any 'release' of Eclipse (such as "Eclipse IDE for Enterprise Java and Web Developers") is OK, however in my experience if Eclipse has many, many plug-ins installed then sometimes oddness can be seen. I personally go with the 'traditional' Eclipse IDE for Java Developers, but if something else works for you then that's great 🙂