News from EPP: The custom Eclipse download and extending the Usage Data Collector

News from EPP: The custom Eclipse download and extending the Usage Data Collector Markus Knauer (EclipseSource1) Darko Varju (EclipseSource1) 1 EclipseSource formerly known as Innoopract News from EPP | © 2008 by us; made available under the EPL v1.0

EPP - What's it all about? • Eclipse Packages Download  coordinate, maintain, build, configure, ... • Usage Data Collector  How are developers using Eclipse? • Eclipse Dynamic Download  Wizard-based download configurator News from EPP | © 2008 by us; made available under the EPL v1.0

Agenda... This talk is about... [1] The Eclipse Dynamic Download and [2] Embedding the Usage Data Collector in RCP/RAP and analysing the results with VUA News from EPP | © 2008 by us; made available under the EPL v1.0

Eclipse Dynamic Download Wizard • Trying to solve an old problem: How do users download and install from Eclipse? • Let's switch to a live demo http://build.eclipse.org/eppwizard/go • 'beta' – currently available for Friends-of-Eclipse only News from EPP | © 2008 by us; made available under the EPL v1.0

Eclipse Dynamic Download Wizard • What we have seen so far...  It's a wizard that uses RAP-, Equinox- and p2-technology  It's already available for Friends of Eclipse  It lets you create a download that contains a customized p2-installer  It's easy to use and the downloads are very fast • What you haven't seen...  It's easy to configure and to deploy  It's easy to participate as Eclipse Strategic Member with the Eclipse Strategic Member Custom Delivery Installer Program News from EPP | © 2008 by us; made available under the EPL v1.0

Dynamic Download Wizard - Configuration • eppwizard.properties  Configuration of the wizard model=data/model externalServiceProviders=data/externalServiceProviders epp.metadata=http://localhost/epp/ installer.url=installer/ baseIUs=org.eclipse.platform.ide,... eclipse.p2.metadata=http://localhost/epp/,... eclipse.p2.artifacts=http://download.eclipse.org/releases/ganymede/, ... ... • installerbuilder.properties  Configuration of the installer (some temp directories, etc.) See http://wiki.eclipse.org/EPP/Wizard/Configuration News from EPP | © 2008 by us; made available under the EPL v1.0

Dynamic Download Wizard - eppmodel.xml • Content of the wizard pages: eppmodel.xml <eppmodel> <structure> <screen label=\"Basics\"> <group label=\"Java\" alias=\"Java\" icon=\"java.png\"> <info>The essential tools for any Java developer...</info> <iuref refid=\"epp.java\" alias=\"Java\" /> </group> <group label=\"Java EE\" alias=\"JEE\" icon=\"jee.png\"> <info>Tools for Java developers creating JEE....</info> <iuref refid=\"epp.jee\" alias=\"JEE\" /> <iuref refid=\"epp.wst\" alias=\"WST\" /> <iuref refid=\"epp.rap\" alias=\"RAP\" /> </group> ... </screen> See http://wiki.eclipse.org/EPP/Wizard/eppmodel.xml News from EPP | © 2008 by us; made available under the EPL v1.0

Dynamic Download Wizard - External Services Provider • Last wizard pages allows to add external service providers • User agent redirect to external URL • Transmitting via HTTP POST  os: platform (e.g. linux, macosx, win32)  eclipse.p2.roots: root IU ids selected by the user  eclipse.p2.metadata: meta data repository URLs  eclipse.p2.artifacts: artifact repository URLS See http://wiki.eclipse.org/EPP/Wizard/Outgoing_links News from EPP | © 2008 by us; made available under the EPL v1.0

EPP Usage Data Collector • Included in all EPP packages • UDC available for RCP applications, but... NEW: Extension for RAP-based environments • UDC: Views, Perspectives, Bundles, Editors, Commands Commands org.eclipse.ui.file.save 87307 org.eclipse.ui.edit.text.goto.wordNext 71286 org.eclipse.ui.edit.delete 66741 org.eclipse.ui.edit.paste 57605 org.eclipse.ui.edit.text.goto.wordPrevious 51207 but this is only half of the story... NEW: Widget based monitor ...and how do we analyse the data? NEW: VUA – Visual Usage Analytics News from EPP | © 2008 by us; made available under the EPL v1.0

EPP Visual Usage Data Analytics (VUA) • The VUA allows the interactive analysis of the usage data • No code changes • It only needs a connection to the DBMS • It can be used in both, RCP and RAP environments • See DEMO News from EPP | © 2008 by us; made available under the EPL v1.0

Further Information EPP Project Webpage  http://www.eclipse.org/epp EPP Download Wizard  http://build.eclipse.org/eppwizard/go  http://wiki.eclipse.org/EPP/Wizard EPP Usage Data Collector and VUA  http://www.eclipse.org/epp/usagedata/index.php  http://www.eclipse.org/org/usagedata/  http://wiki.eclipse.org/EPP/Framework_for_Visual_Analytics_of_user_tracking_information Newsgroup and Mailing List  http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.technology.packaging/maillist.html  https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/epp-dev News from EPP | © 2008 by us; made available under the EPL v1.0

News from EPP: The custom Eclipse download and extending the Usage Data Collector

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