Clide2 (beta)

Clide2 is a cloud-based, language agnostic, collaborative development environment. Clide started as a web interface for the Isabelle theorem prover but has now been extended to a general collaborative environment for the creation of arbitrary content.

Features

• Mobile - The default front-end of clide runs in any modern browser and utilizes state-of-the-art HTML5 techniques while the back-end can be anywhere. That way you can do heavy theorem proving on your tablet if you wish.

• Collaborative - The entire architecture of clide is built around the concept collaboration.

• Extensible - Clide introduces the concept of universal collaboration: the distinction between human and non-human collaborators is dropped, which allows for very rich plug-ins.

• Distributed - All aspects of the development experience can be provided on different servers. Clide takes care of coordinating all those information and integrating them into a smooth user experience.

Live Demo

There is a pre-release beta version live. You might just give it a spin:

http://clide.informatik.uni-bremen.de

Installation

If you consider contributing to the project, you should first set up a local instance of the clide infrastructure by following these simple steps:

1. Download a copy of the current snapshot bundle from

   http://martin.flatmap.net/clide/clide-web-2.0-SNAPSHOT.zip

2. Unzip somewhere on your system

3. In a terminal cd to the path where you unzipped the package

4. start the server with bin/clide-web.

5. Use your (recently updated) HTML5-enabled browser to navigate to localhost:9000.

Adjust conf/application.conf to your needs.

You can then sign up a new user, create projects and collaborate on files.

But you will want to install additional Assistant-Servers in order to get semantic help and content assist functionality as you would expect from an IDE:

> TODO: Describe Isabelle Assistant Setup

Building Assistants

Assistants are standalone applications that connect to a clide server via akka remoting.

To build an assistant you must create a new project. (We will focus on sbt here, but it is also possible to use maven or something else to manage your project)

You will then want to include the clide-core dependency which can be obtained from sonatype central maven repo.

libraryDependencies += "net.flatmap" %% "clide-core" % "2.0-SNAPSHOT"

The corresponding maven dependency would be

<dependency>
  <groupId>net.flatmap</groupId>
  <artifactId>clide-core_2.10</artifactId>
  <version>2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

You must also add the Sonatype snapshot repo as a resolver as there is no stable release of clide yet:

resolvers += Resolver.sonatypeRepo("snapshots")

Now the entry point for the creation of an Assistant is the abstract class AssistantServer which expects a constructor for an AssistantBehavior as an argument.

object Example extends AssistantServer(ExampleBehavior)

You can now define the Behavior as an implementation of AssistantBehavior

case class ExampleBehavior(control: AssistantControl) extends AssistantBehavior {
  ...
}

There are a number of methods to implement here. You can consult the API doc.

For now that is the way of creating assistants. This will possibly be changed in the future. Please be aware of the early beta state!

License

(c) copyright 2012-2013 by Martin Ring <martin.ring@dfki.de>

Clide2 is licensed under the LGPL v3.0 (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html)

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