Eclipse DemoCamps November 2010/Dortmund/DemoProposals

Demo Proposals

English abstract preferred, but not mandatory.

"Building Xtext based projects with Maven", Karsten Thoms, itemis AG

Using Xtext from within Eclipse is easy, but for using Xtext in many real-life projects an important question must be answered: How do I get my stuff build on the build server. Building projects requires headless execution without an Eclipse installation. In many projects Maven is used for building Java based software, and same should be done with Xtext based projects. This demo will show two approaches: Building with Maven3 using the Maven Tycho plugins and a "classic" Maven2 based build, since many projects don't want to migrate to Maven3 yet.

"Eclipse Code Recommenders", Marcel Bruch, TU Darmstadt

Application frameworks have become an integral part of today's software development - this is hardly surprising given their promised benefits such as reduced costs, higher quality, and shorter time to market. But using an application framework is not free of cost. Before frameworks can be used efficiently, software developers have to learn their correct usage which often results in high initial training costs.

However, framework usages frequently follow typical patterns that manifest themselves in source code of applications that use these frameworks - and thus can be extracted from code and directly reused to guide novice developers when learning these frameworks. The code recommenders project facilitates this reuse of collective knowledge by automatically collecting such information from code and brings back this knowledge into the IDE by means of intelligent code completion, extended (usage-driven) javadocs, smart api-misuse detectors, or personalized code search engines.

This talk introduces Eclipse Code Recommenders, a new (upcoming) Eclipse project proposal under the umbrella of the Eclipse Technology top-level project.

"Using Scrum with Eclipse and Mylyn", Thorsten Kamann, itemis AG

Scrum doesn't require any tools. But in real life projects you need some of them: Versioning, Continuous Integration, Ticketingsystem, Collaboration. For your daily work it would be nice if you can do the work with this tools inside of Eclipse. This talk shows the work of an Scrum team member with Eclipse, Mylyn and this tools to do the adminstrive tasks on a quick and effective way.

If you are part of a Scrum team you want to your administive tasks quick and easy. Such tasks are change the status of the tasks you working on.