I think — he would probably disagree — Angelo bundled Tern as an Eclipse IDE as this neat feature was needing to be exposed someway. But is it really an IDE? I mean: without a project type and a perspective? Hardly to me but I won't argue more here: we already had this discussion...

Ok let's me clarify what is tern.java. tern.java gives you the capability to use tern.js in Java context.
Tern Java can be used :

with a Simple SWT Text (not linked to IDE)
with Eclipse IDE
could be used with Swing, Netbeans, etc

There is :

core (https://github.com/angelozerr/tern.java/tree/master/core) : which provides tern server implemented with node.js and Rhino. Those project are not linked to Eclipse.
eclipse (https://github.com/angelozerr/tern.java/tree/master/eclipse) : which contains some Tern eclipse classes and Tern IDE (linked to Eclipse IDE)

Tern IDE means that it's tern.java with Eclipse IDE. For perspective, views etc, today there is nothing about that, but in the future I think we could have that.

It would make a lot of sense to inject Tern into a fully implemented IDE and Nodeclipse is certainly the best candidate for this — but this would be a lot of work as the existing "convert project" implementation is possibly acceptable for a Tern IDE but would it still make sense for Nodeclipse IDE?

@paulvi has already integrate tern inside Nodeclipse with a simple mean (generate .tern-project with node tern plugin and add tern nature). It exists other solutions like ternNatureAdapter or directly with Java API. So with that, when user will create a new Node.js project, and if it install Tern IDE, he will benefit with node completion, hover, hyperlink, validation https://github.com/angelozerr/tern.java/wiki/Tern-&-Node.js-support

What would be VERY nice would be a Tern generalization within Nodeclipse projects and express is certainly a serious candidate for this but not the only one: the entire MEAN stack would be a better target I believe.

https://github.com/angelozerr/tern.java/wiki/Tern-IDE-Extension#ternnatureadapters extension point gives you the capability to select well tern modules according the nature of your project. So if one day a tern-express exists, we could add it if project has express nature.

I think if Nodeclipse decided to integrate Tern IDE, it could be become the tools to use to develop tern plugin with the debug mode. See https://github.com/angelozerr/tern.java/wiki/Debugging-tern.js-with-Nodeclipse

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