NCL Eclipse
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NCL Eclipse is a plugin for Eclipse IDE to assist in the development of Nested Context Language applications. NCL is the declarative standard language for ISDB-Tb (International System for Digital Broadcast Terrestrial Brazilian) and also is ITU-T standard for IPTV systems. NCL Eclipse was first developed by Laws Lab and it is currently jointly maintained by Laws and TeleMídia Labs.
NCL Eclipse is free software, available at Brazilian Public Software Portal under GNU GPLv2 license.
As an Eclipse IDE plug-in NCL Eclipse can be easily integrated with others plug-ins: for instance, those supporting other ISDB-Tb and ITU-T standard languages (such as Lua and Java).
NCL Eclipse Historical Evolution
NCL Eclipse 1.0
The first stable version of NCL Eclipse was named "NCL Eclipse 1.0." This version has included support to syntax highlighting, folding (which allows the author to hide parts of source code according with his needs), wizards to create simple documents, auto-formatting, document, marking error validation, contextual content suggestion and an outline view (which shows the document content as a tree). To provide the marking error validation, all NCL Eclipse versions uses the NCL Validator (validation framework of NCL documents). This first version was very well accepted by the community of NCL developers, which gave several feedbacks. The NCL Eclipse evolution is strongly based on these feedbacks.
NCL Eclipse 1.4
NCL Eclipse 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 mainly provided bug fixes found in NCL Eclipse 1.0. NCL Eclipse 1.4 brought program visualization, media previews, and hypertext navigation. Additionally, a new plug-in aimed to integrate NCL Eclipse with NCL Club was included in the same package. The internationalization support for English, Spanish and Portuguese was also included in this version.
NCL Eclipse 1.5
The latest stable and current version is "NCL Eclipse 1.5". This version contains some improvements in source code. As a new feature, this version came with support to semi-automatic error correction and option to run the NCL document, provided by a virtual machine running the Ginga-NCL emulator.