The document provides an overview of API tooling features in Eclipse. It discusses the need for tooling to define, document, and enforce API contracts. The tooling can detect binary incompatibilities, illegal API usage, missing documentation, and inconsistent version numbers. It generates reports and provides integrated IDE support to help developers design, use and evolve APIs while avoiding breaking changes. The tooling enforces rules for public APIs through configurable descriptions and checks APIs are used as intended.

1. API Tooling Overview Olivier Thomann IBM Ottawa Lab June 16 th , 2010

3. The need for tooling

5. API Dimensions API Use (Consumer) API Evolution (Producer) Behavior remains constant over time as APIs evolve and grow. X X

10. API Tooling Parts

15. Example of Published API

25. Demo of API Tooling features

26. Future Work

28. Summary

31. Q & A