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 CheatSheet
Helpers
– 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!
Any questions?
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