EclipseCon 2009 slides for the Standing on the Shoulders of Giants session

1. On the shoulders of giants
Harnessing the Power of Eclipse
Enterprise Ecosystem
Kirill Grouchnikov

2. What is he going to talk about?
To show you how
Eclipse makes you
more productive

3. Why should I care?
Less code to write,
test and support

4. And then you can retire

5. What is he going to talk about?
Amdocs
Smart Client
Designer

7. Provides familiar
experience

8. Immersed in Eclipse

9. Immersed in Eclipse

10. Immersed in Eclipse

11. Immersed in Eclipse

12. Immersed in Eclipse

13. Immersed in Eclipse

14. For your users
Provides familiar
experience

15. For your developers
Less code to write,
test and support

16. Especially for
enterprise
solutions

17. Eclipse – rich
foundation

18. GMT
DTP EMF ECF WTP
VE GEF
RCP JDT
AJDT TPTP
JEM RAP WST

19. </acronyms>

20. http://www.eclipse.org/projects/listofprojects.php

21. Community health - example
http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/project-info/team.php
• Open Canarias
• RedHat
• Zeligsoft
• Puzzle ITC
• Geensys
• Embarcadero
• Okidoo
• IBM
• Oracle
• ES-Computersysteme
• Elver
• FernUniversitaet
• University of Brock

22. GMT
DTP EMF ECF WTP
VE GEF
RCP JDT
AJDT TPTP
JEM RAP WST

23. Our building blocks
• EMF – persistence
• JEM / VE – UI builder
• GEF – editors
• JDT – Java source trees

24. Putting the pixels on canvas
XML
EMF
Java model
JEM
Swing frame
GEF
Canvas

25. EMF as the persistence layer

26. EMF as the persistence layer
Starting with the
schema definition

27. EMF as the persistence layer
Generating the
model classes

28. EMF as the persistence layer
xml -> java model

29. xml ↔ java
notifications
validations

30. JEM proxies
Java model
Offscreen Swing JFrame
Creation and updates
via JEM proxies
GEF graphical edit parts
image changes

31. GEF - everything is an EditPart
org.eclipse.gef.ui.parts
TreeViewer
org.eclipse.gef.editparts
AbstractGraphicalEditPart

32. All together now
XML
EMF
Java model
JEM
Swing frame
GEF
Canvas

33. Java-based warnings
Java class change
core
Builder invocation
JDT
Java syntax trees
Marker creation
core
UI update

34. Flagging API usage violations

35. All together now
Java class change
core
Builder invocation
JDT
Java syntax trees
Marker creation
core
UI update

36. And those are just
the big pieces

37. markers
builders
actions monitors
natures commands
wizards help dialogs
validations views
editors jobs
perspectives

38. markers
builders
actions monitors
natures commands
wizards help dialogs
validations views
editors jobs
perspectives

39. Asynchronous
Background
Queuing
Cancellable
Progress

40. big pieces
+
small pieces

41. =

42. the Eclipse way

43. The only rule of
Eclipse way
don’t fight it

44. =

45. provide familiar
experience to
your users

46. Our experience
• Reuse as much plumbing as possible
• Reuse as many UI parts as possible
• Use very few synchronous UI operations
• Reuse as many UI flows as possible
• Decompose into plugins
• Build for extensibility
• Don’t depend on internal code

47. </dudeTalking>

48. Q&A
http://www.eclipse.org/documentation/
kirillg@amdocs.com
www.pushing-pixels.org

49. Thank you
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