Greetings,
I can certainly help with some of these questions, but for further inquiries you should probably contact sales@slickedit.com or dial 1-919-473-0070, press 1 for "Sales", and then ask for Rick Lanning. He will be able to assist you whatever you need...and he knows more about our OEM program and partnerships than I do.
If it is possible to extend/customize the SlickEdit editor(s) to hook into our application’s logic/usability (i.e. our application uses “virtual†source code files instead of the typical user’s file system – which means we would need to intercept or supply logic related to saving/opening the editor(s) )?
I think this will be possible but this would probably need to be discusses in more detail with Rick and the dev team.
Does SlickEdit editor(s) include any modules/functionality that does syntax checking/validation (i.e. if a user is editing a COBOL file, and they type invalid syntax, will the editor complain (just like eclipse does w.r.t Java))?
Unfortunately we do not have any type of "live errors" for COBOL...we only have that functionality for Java.
If there is an SDK and/or API documents that could be of great help for such 3rd party integrations?
Yes, we have OEM kits for both our plug-in and our standalone product that help with this.
If there is a way to override/modify the SlickEdit branding (i.e. file extension, editor icons, etc) so that it will be more inline with our own products’ look and feel standards?
This will also not be a problem.
Let me know if I can be of any further assistance. Is the product in question an Eclipse-based application, and are you interested in integrating our plug-in for Eclipse? Or are you interested in our standalone editor? We have trials for both products available if you want to test drive.
- Ryan