Hi Folks,
Perhaps I'm using too new of an Eclipse (Photon), but I'm not able to integrate Eclipse with BaseX. I installed the trial Oxygen plugin, though I don't want to pay for it. Even then, it would not offer a BaseX datasource, only one for ExistDB. I tried to install XQDT, but it could not be installed without downgrading many components, which I did not want to do.
As an Eclipse person, using IntelliJ would not be very productive as I've gotten used to the Eclipse keyboard shortcuts.
I'd like to create a server program based in BaseX with RESTful xquery based services. Initially, it would be a CRUD type application. It doesn't need high performance, just not terrible, and I'd like to be able to authenticate into it. I'm confident BaseX can handle the task, it's just getting an editor capable of handling it. Using the GUI that comes with BaseX is good for small tasks, but not so good for larger applications.
It doesn't appear that there's much in the way of XQuery support in Eclipse anymore, and even the XQDT if it could be installed doesn't support the newer 3.1 type xquery (I believe I read). Can someone recommend a good editor? I'm using GVim for many small projects, though it takes work to get it to work with larger projects efficiently (CTags helps for C/C++ code, but I dont' think it works with XQuery).
Separately, would it be possible to develop a secure BaseX based application that users could log in, and authenticate into, store delicate personal information and have it be sufficiently secure? Could it be at least as secure as, say a Tomcat application? Sorry to ask this question, I do app development, but usually my role comes in after the user has been authenticated using something like OAuth or other.
Best Regards, Ben Prachtcom ben.pracht@gmail.com