Eclipse as an IDE

Why would you need wizards?

Who is this person?

• Pierre-Antoine Grégoire• IT Architect at • Technically focused mainly on

– Java/J(2)EE– Eclipse, OSGI– Web (whichever version you fancy ;) )

• Dislikes buzzwords (SOA, EDA…etc)• Likes concrete solutions to concrete

issues (business or technical)

Why is he here?

• He contributed to OSS projects like Spring IDE, or former Acegi Security (small contributions though)

• He works on OSS libraries and tools hosted at:– http://www.org-libs.org– http://www.org-tools.org (we’ll talk about this in a moment)

• He was kindly asked to talk at Eclipse Demo Camp and he is a little cocky, so he couldn’t refuse

• Now let’s stop this 3rd person talking nonsense

A bit of polling

• Who is a regular J(2)EE developer?• Who used to be a developer?• Who is not interested in development

topics?

ORG Tools: DWS

• Eclipse features– ORG Eclipse Core: the

classical Core plugins you end up having in your toolkit…

– ORG Eclipse DWS(Dependency Weaving System)

– ORG Eclipse CheatSheetHelpers

– ORG Eclipse Helpers

Eclipse DEMO camp

• So let’s launch some demonstration of:– ORG DWS

– ORG Helpers– ORG Cheatsheet Helpers

• With a little description of each before the demos.

ORG Eclipse DWS

• Leverage Maven 2 even when not using Maven 2– Simple IDE interaction with Maven 2

repositories

– Bridges between IDE functionalities and Maven 2 repositories

– Not a replacement nor a Maven 2 launcher

ORG Eclipse Helpers

• This provides a few Helpers for missing (IMNSHO) functionalities

• For instance it provides Helpers for conversion of existing projects to WST Faceted projects

ORG Eclipse Cheatsheet Helpers

• One powerful functionality of Eclipse: Cheatsheets.• Cheatsheets can launch Eclipse Commands• Lacking a few things to be even more powerful:

– An accessible catalog of local and remote cheatsheets– Adapted commands (many commands can only be launched in

a given context)– Better command editors– A concept of “Cheatsheet context”

• This feature already provides useful cheatsheet-oriented commands, and will try and provide the rest in a near future (maybe by providing/asking for improvements to the platform’s cheatsheet capabilities)

• This feature allows you to build tutorials very easily, therefore removing the need for Wizards

ORG Eclipse Cheatsheet Helpers

• So finally we know what the title of this presentation meant.

• IDE wizards tend to provide one view of the solution to a problem

• IDE wizards are not very flexible and need coding for contribution

• ORG Cheatsheet helpers provide a possible solution to that

Many thanks for your attention!

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