"Eclipse Application Development" at GNUnify 07

Eclipse Rich Client Applications Develop Desktop applications on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform Ketan Padegaonkar Sriram Narayanan

What are we going to cover ?
Eclipse is more than just a Java IDE
What’s common between desktop applications
How the Eclipse RCP helps
How the plug-in architecture works
Getting started
Let’s develop an application
Becoming proficient
Eclipse development activity in Pune

What makes a smart app ?
Ideally, run on multiple platforms
Tight integration with OS (DnD, System Tray, Clipboard)
Ease of deployment, management
Responsive UI
Can be extended easily

What Eclipse provides
Components from an eco-system
Native user experience
Portability
Install and Update
Development tooling support
Component libraries

Developer focus
Focus on delivering applications
Cannot give much time to designing UI and other basic infrastructure for each application

What is RCP?
A platform to build client apps with rich functionality
Open-source (EPL)
History:
Eclipse 2.1 (2003) Eclipse is an IDE. Hackers in the community start building “non-ide” apps based on Eclipse technology
Eclipse 3.0 (2004)
Refactored out the “IDE” out of the workbench
An empty workbench
Integration with OSGi
Cleaning up dependencies (Help, Updates, etc)
Eclipse 3.1 (2005): improved tooling, richer API

More than a Java IDE
Strengths include the plug-in architecture
A growing eco system that includes reporting, database, web app and debugging tools
Everything is a plug-in – including Java language support !

Some smart apps

Maestro – The Mars Rover

IBM Workplace Client

Bioclipse

Eclipse Trader

Getting Started 10 minutes

The Learning Curve
Java and brief Eclipse architecture
Online articles and samples available
Online help groups available
Read, Read, Read
Follow the samples and practice on your own
Learn to ask questions (there is no such thing as a dumb question)

RCP in action
OSGi and runtime
UI
SWT, JFace, Workbench, Text, Forms, GEF
User assistance
Help, Intro, Cheat Sheets
Deployment
JNLP, Updates
Modeling and visualization
EMF and GEF
Reporting
BIRT
Tooling (PDE, VE, WTP)

How plugins work

OSGi and Runtime
OSGi - The framework behind the plug-in architecture
Runtime
CONTRIBUTION RULE Everything is a contribution.
LAZY LOADING RULE Contributions are only loaded when they are needed.

Eclipse from 1000 feet

Workshop
Develop an RCP application to process insurance proposals.
Add functionality incrementally
Deploy functionality using updates
Includes UI and POJOs

Code development in progress 

What have we just covered ?
Deploy an RCP application
GUI on top of domain objects
Deploy plug-ins manually
Creating update sites
Deploy plug-ins via update manager
Mostly no recompilation of code
Extension points
Branding your RCP application

Some tutorials at Eclipse
Drag and Drop
Develop plug-ins
Develop GUI and GUI components
Manage updates
Profile and debug your applications
Workbench internals
OpenGL and Eclipse

Managing, deploying
New features, bug fixes
Customer specific features
Customers can roll back changes if they want to

Eclipse development workflow

Eclipse from 10000 feet

Inside the plug-in

All the plug-ins put together

The Eco system
Everything is a plug-in
Java, C++, Ruby, PHP
BIRT
DTP
J2EE support
TPTP (expand the acronym)
AspectJ

Database Tooling screenshot

TPTP screenshot

Impact on your career
Changes your perspective on developing applications
Learn great development practices
Develop faster
Release maintainable and extendable apps
Component based thinking

Eclipse in Pune
Pune Eclipse Platform Developers’ Group
Members are people like you and I
Ask questions on developing apps
Most responses will be links to articles
Not a forum for help on Java development
Moderated – no spam
Plans for meetings once a month
Show your Eclipse applications and receive feedback
http://groups.google.com/group/eclipse-pune-dev/

Contact info
www.eclipse.org
www.eclipse.org/articles
Pune Eclipse Platform Developers’ Group
http://groups.google.com/group/eclipse-pune-dev/

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