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Sandbox Principle

With IDEasy we follow the sandbox principle for the projects managed by our tool. That is each project may peacefully coexist with other projects on the same computer.

Changes and work in one project do not have side-effects to other projects so the projects are isolated from each other. This principle is not very easy to achieve on the same computer since you have to consider the following requirements. Different projects on the same computer…​

  • …​ may want to use the same tool (java, mvn, node, python, you name it).

  • …​ want to define their own version for tool xyz to be used that may be the same or differ between the projects.

  • …​ want to have their individual configuration for a tool (e.g. assuming your are using AWS CLI in two projects on the same computer but for two different tenants. You do not want to accidentally deploy something for the wrong account because you share a global configuration for your login, do you?)

  • …​ may want to use the same tool (e.g. an IDE like Intellij, Eclipse, VSCode, etc.) but with different plugins.

Concept

There are differnet concepts and implementations how to achieve this sandbox principle. An obvious one is virtualization (using VMs) or para-virtualization (using "docker" containers). Microsoft is using the latter with development containers. However, from the start we belived that developers want the following things:

  • Get the most out of your resources (CPU, memory, disc) avoiding overhead and waste as your computer can never be fast enough.

  • Have the full freedom and flexibility for your way of working as you do not want to be fenced in a virtual environment without access to your host and vice versa (e.g. if you have manually installed Notepad++ and want to edit some file with it you do not want to realize that the file is actually hidden in some WSL, container or VM complicating your workflows).

Therefore we simply isolate projects as folders on your hard-drive. While following KISS we invented some simple but smart ideas to make the sandbox work for you as simple as possible. In a nutshell inside such project folder we also "install" the software tools you want in a software folder and while keeping the configuration in a conf folder (see structure for details). On top of that idea we provide some simple but effective integrations into your operating system (we support Windows, Mac and Linux) to launch tools and shells with the environment setup specific to your project without global side effects (like changing global system environments, registry, etc.). As a result you can switch between projects seamlessly and work in parallel without inteference and without undesired side-effects.

If you have not yet tried IDEasy, please give it a try and set it up.