The document presents an introduction to Cloud Foundry integration for Eclipse, highlighting its open-source nature, community-driven development, and partnership opportunities. It outlines the history of Cloud Foundry, its release milestones, and the functions and extensions offered by the framework. Additionally, it provides guidance on contributing to the project and potential development opportunities within the ecosystem.

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Introducing Cloud Foundry Integration for Eclipse
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Program Director, Cloud Offerings for IBM
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Why Eclipse?
• The premier open source IDE
– Free & open
– Neutral governance
– Already strong affinity with cloud (Orion/Flux)
• Large ecosystem. Strong community.
– 2001: IBM and 7 other companies announce the Eclipse consortium
– 2004: Eclipse Foundation Formed
– 2014: Vibrant foundation with companies from around the globe, over 100
projects and sub-projects, 1700+ plugins in the Eclipse Marketplace and
counting!
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Opportunity for Partnership
• Pivotal Cloud Foundry
Integration hosted on Spring
• IBM WebSphere Developer
Tools for Eclipse
• Why are we not working
together with the Cloud
Foundry community?!?!?
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A brief (literally) history…
• March 2012: Release 1.0.0
• February 2014: Cloud Foundry Foundation Announced
– Pivotal donates their Cloud Foundry Tools under the foundation
– IBM joins project
• April 2014: Release 1.6.1 the first under the community
• June 2014: Your contributions help the project accelerate and
flourish
– Plan to release about every 6 weeks on the latest changes and
improvements.
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Open Core – Vendors can build on top
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• Create a Cloud Foundry server
• Create a Cloud Foundry account
• Deploy a .war to Java build pack
• Configure deployment options
• View/create/bind/unbind services
• Update deployed applications
• Display console
• Clone a Cloud Foundry instance
Cloud Foundry
common layer
Vendor Extensions
Existing Cloud Foundry support examples
• Custom Branding
• Server adaptors

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Functions provided by the framework
• Open source project based on Eclipse Web Tools Project (WTP -
http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/
• Provides basic interaction with Cloud Foundry, e.g. server creation,
authentication.
• Deploy applications within the IDE to Clound Foundry.
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Extensions provided by the framework
• Branding extension that allows customizations on default
URL, icons, server types, sign up pages, etc.
• Provides default implementation on WAR, standalone
application and Grails.
• Supports new application types that are not part of the default
implementation.
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Charts are boring – it’s demo time!
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How can I develop my own extension?
• Start by taking a look at the Pivotal CF branding plugin as an
example:
org.cloudfoundry.ide.eclipse.server.branding
• Create your own branding plugin by cloning that branding plugin as
your starting point
• Try adding a new extension of
org.cloudfoundry.ide.eclipse.server.core.application and
org.cloudfoundry.ide.eclipse.server.ui.applicationWizard to define
support for deploying a new type of module.
• Check out vendor specific IBM Bluemix implementation in action:
IBM Codename: Bluemix for Eclipse Kepler Beta (
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/ibm-codename-bluemix-
eclipse-kepler)
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How can I contribute to the framework?
• Participate in mailing list discussions
• When you have some changes that you want to contribute
to the framework, open a bug on the pivotal tracker
• Fork the GitHub repository and submit a pull request to
request for the patch to be adopted:
https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo
https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request
• Your pull request will be reviewed and adopted if
applicable.
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Potential Framework Opportunities
• Better debug
• Real deployments
– DevOps, Continuous Integration
• Think beyond the app
– APIs/Services
– BOSH, OpenStack
• Intersection with new community efforts
– Docker, .NET
• Globalization/Internationalization
• If you can think it, you can build it!
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Useful Links
• Basic documentation on usage of the Cloud Foundry
Eclipse Plugin framework:
http://docs.cloudfoundry.org/buildpacks/java/sts.html
• Pivotal Tracker - defects and enhancements:
https://www.pivotaltracker.com/s/projects/1027166
• Source code on GitHub:
https://github.com/cloudfoundry/eclipse-integration-
cloudfoundry
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Thank you!
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