Eclipse E4 Open Social Gadgetsvrs3

Eclipse E4 Eclipse, the web and OpenSocial Gadgets

About me – Lars Vogel • Works for SAP as Product Manager • Outsite SAP: – Open Source Fan – Tries to help the community via Java/ Eclipse Tutorials on www.vogella.de – Eclipse E4 committer www.twitter.com/vogella

Eclipse E4 • Explore new aproaches for Eclipse technologies • Eclipse 3.x and Eclipse E4 will co-exists

Eclipse E4 - Overview • Modelled Workbench • Eclipse can be styled via CSS • XWT – Declarative UI via XML • Dependency Injection • Improved resource handling • Better Web integration – Using HTML for UI‘s – Plugins written in Javascript – OpenSocial Gadgets • …..

Eclipse and the web • E4 targets to bring the Eclipse IDE closer to the web • One way would be to run Eclipse in the web, e.g. via Eclipse RAP • Another way would be to run the web inside Eclipse This demo shows how to bring the web to Eclipse

SWT Browser Widget Demo

OpenSocial Gadgets • Basically XML files with JavaScript which is placed on a server • Must follow the OpenSocial specification • Can be integrated in the big social sites (expect Facebook) • Allow social interaction • Reference implementation for an OpenSocial Container Apache Shindig

OpenSocial Gadgets

Demo • OpenSocial Gadgets (main developers Boris Bokowski and Benjamin Cabé)

OpenSocial Gadgets in Eclipse

Why is this cool? • Web integration allows the extension of Eclipse without any knowledge of Eclipse API, just use XML and JavaScript • Deeper integration with Web and Eclipse possible – Using the selection service in Eclipse – Preference Store – Etc. • You will be able to style SWT similar to a web app • OpenSocial Gadgets – Existing spec, existing gadgets – Opens up Eclipse

Info – Lars Vogel Lars.Vogel@gmail.com www.vogella.de www.twitter.com/vogella Infos about OpenSocial Gadgets: http://wiki.eclipse.org/E4/OpenSocialGadgets http://www.vogella.de/articles/OpenSocialGadgets/article.html

Rational Software | Eclipse Eclipse Application Services (“Twenty Things”) • Editor lifecycle • Long-running operations • Receiving input • Progress reporting • Producing selection • Error handling • Standard dialogs • Navigation model • Persisting UI state • Resource management • Logging • Status line • Interface to help system • Drag and drop • Menu contributions • Undo/Redo • Authentication • Accessing preferences • Authorization 14 IBM Confidential © 2009 IBM Corporation

Eclipse E4 Open Social Gadgetsvrs3

by Lars Vogel on Dec 03, 2009

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