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Ten Eclipse Projects You Haven't Heard Enough About

Wayne Beaton, Eclipse Foundation, Evangelist

Agenda

Survey projects that you probably haven't heard enough about

  • Runtime Technology
  • Frameworks
  • Tools

Eclipse Examples Project

Eclipse Business Expense Reporting Tool

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  • Capture Expense information
  • Works on RCP, eRCP, and RAP
    • Many common components
    • Some platform-specific components

Technologies at Work

  • Eclipse RCP, eRCp, and RAP
  • Dependency-Injection using Equinox/OSGi Declarative Services
  • Nebula Widgets
  • User state
  • View Model

Eclipse IDE for Education

  • Eclipse-based IDE streamlined for students
    • Tasked to make the adoption of Eclipse technologies easier for first time adopters
    • Primarily targeting undergraduates
  • Streamlined Java development tools
  • Scheme, Prolog language support
  • Assignment workflow
    • Obtain/hand in assignments directly from environment

Eclipse IDE Meta-tooling Platform (IMP)

Motivation for IDE Meta-tooling

  • Many languages still don't enjoy full-featured IDE support in Eclipse.
  • Modifying existing concrete IDEs (like the JDT) not cost-effective.
    • They're huge, and not designed for extensibility.
  • Other existing frameworks (DLTK, xText) make assumptions about the type of language or its AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) representation.
  • Other frameworks tend to produce a "one-size-fits-all" (lowest-common-denominator) experience.
    • Provide little opportunity for customizing the IDE behavior to suit the language.

Enter: Eclipse IMP Technology Project

  • Eclipse-based meta-IDE for building feature-rich language-specific IDEs
  • Support for many IDE features: syntax highlighting, source code folding, outlining, source annotations, hover help, source hyperlinking from references to declarations, content assist, context-specific help, occurrence marking, incremental building with dependency tracking, auto-edit strategies, rule-based source code formatting, refactoring (in progress)
  • Implement support for the IDE features you most want
    • IMP will do the most it can with whatever you've implemented
  • Supports extensive customization of the IDE appearance and behavior - not a one-size-fits-all experience for your IDE's users
  • No bias toward any particular kind of language
  • Use any parsing/compiling technology you want (including rolling your own)
  • Already in use for nontrivial languages with a wide variety of purposes:
    • Grammar specification
    • Domain-specific languages (DSLs)
    • Modeling
    • General-purpose programming languages (X10, COBOL, etc.)
  • We eat our own dog food: we've built several IDEs using IMP that are in daily use as part of IMP

Eclipse GEF3D

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  • 3D extension of GEF, enables full-featured 3D editors
  • existing 2D editors can easily be adapted to be used in a 3D scene
  • GEF and Draw2D programming style preserved (only little or even now 3D programming knowledge is required)
  • custom 3D figures and shapes can be created using an OpenGL like API
  • use cases:
    • visualization of inter-model relationships, e.g. mappings (see example screenshot)
    • annotation of 2D diagrams using the 3rd dimension, e.g. metrics
    • 3D notations for domain specific languages

Spatio-Temporal Epidemiological Modeler

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  • Extensible, collaborative, framework for creating computational models for the spread of infectious disease.
  • Extensive data sets
    • Geographic and demographic data for entire planet
    • Transportation infrastructure
  • Geographic visualizations
  • Models can be composed, shared and reused
  • Built-in components
    • Sophisticated mathematical models
    • Scenarios for every country
  • Can be used for other kinds of modeling
    • Real-time situation awareness
    • Disaster planning

Eclipse Linux Tools Project

RPM .spec editor

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  • Outline, folding, colourization, quick outline
  • Hover help and completion
    • Macros (%patch)
    • Requires/BuildRequires
  • rpmlint integration
  • Would love to see similar .deb tooling

RPM Stubby

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  • One of our major project goals is to bring Eclipse technology to Linux distribution users
  • Transforms an Eclipse feature to an RPM .spec
  • Again, would love to see similar .deb tooling

GNU Autotools integration

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  • Builds on CDT's builders to seamlessly call appropriate Makefile generators
  • Editors for configure.ac and Makefile.am
  • Potential contribution: a form editor!

OProfile integration

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  • Call profiling
  • Plans include code colourization of hot spots a la Eclemma

Valgrind integration

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  • memcheck: check for memory errors
    • ex. malloc with no free
    • Link with source editors which have markers
    • Potential contribution: quick fixes

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  • massif: heap usage
    • Table of snapshots
    • Chart of usage
    • Linking with source editors
  • Upcoming tool in 0.2.0 release: cachegrind
    • Cache hits and misses

Java Workflow Tooling

An extensible business process modeler...

  • Extensible set of views (UML, Tech, EPC...)
  • Extensible meta-model (aspects)
  • Customizable UI

...that produces executable processes

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  • A growing set of transformations
    • XPDL
    • BPMN
    • jPDL (incubating)

A welcoming project

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www.eclipse.org/jwt

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