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Well it's been a long time since I posted an update, I kept hoping I would find the time to get back to work on Gel but it has not happened and it is time to accept the inevitable that development is on hiatus indefinitely.

Unfortunately with my current work and family commitments I just have not been able to free up the time necessary to keep things moving forward. Additionally, my current job requires the use of a specific IDE and since I don't use Gel as much anymore my motivation for working on it is correspondingly lower.

I am actively looking for someone to take over the project as the interest still appears high. Gel is written in Delphi so it does require someone who is knowledgeable of Delphi and has Delphi 5 or later. Gel also requires a variety of commercial components such as the DevExpress toolbars, VCLZip and a few others.

The need for the commercial components makes it difficult to open source Gel since I do not believe just throwing non compiling source code on Sourceforge would lead to anything useful. Ideally, there would be someone would be willing to step forward to assume leadership of this project and move it forward, either as a closed source or open source project. I am willing to transfer my licenses of the commercial components I use to such an individual after some good faith effort on the part of said individual to show an ability to get things done.

Alternatively, if someone is interested in creating a new Java IDE in Delphi I would certainly be willing to offer parts of the Gel source code to accelerate that process.

Either way, anyone interested in taking this up is welcome to e-mail me.

RC39 is now available, see history for detailed information on changes. One major fix is that a massive memory leak occurred when editing JSP pages with scriptlets in a particular format.

We have been experiencing some problems with the website as usage appears to have increased quite dramatically. To compensate, the download of files has been moved to mirrors courteously provided by Trevor Lowing and Josh Clarke. As this is a hobby project, I'm not spending big bucks on hosting and my provider wanted me to move to a much more expensive plan given how much bandwidth was being consumed in January. Hopefully things will get back to normal when traffic subsides.

RC38 is now available, this release corrects some additional bugs reported by users, see history for more information. Additionally, a first cut of an import helper tool has been added. This tool enables you to automatically add an import for the identifier under the cursor.

For example, type BigInteger| (where | is the caret) and activate the import helper tool. A popup will appear with java.math.BigInteger and if you hit enter it will be added to the file's imports. Note that no keystroke is configured for this tool out of the box, go to the customize keystrokes dialog in the Editor category. Also, this tool only works for Java files at this point, not JSP.

RC37 is now available, this release corrects some additional bugs reported by users, see history for more information.