Martin Lippert introduces Eclipse Orion, an open source platform for cloud-based software development. Orion provides a lightweight and ultra-fast editor, file navigation, search, and running unit tests within a web browser. It is built entirely with JavaScript and supports features like content assist, folding, and Git integration. Orion is modular and reusable - for example, Scripted is a lightweight JavaScript editor that can run in browsers. Orion addresses innovation happening on the web but also faces challenges of offline use and transferring existing tooling to the browser.

1. Introducing
Martin Lippert,VMware
mlippert@vmware.com, @martinlippert
Eclipse Orion
Software Development in the Browser

2. about me
Martin Lippert
Staff Engineer, R&D, at
SpringSource/VMware and lead of
Spring Tool Suite development
Working areas
• Eclipse Tooling for the Spring
platform
• Open Source Committer
• Aspect-Weaving for OSGi
• Cloud IDEs and JavaScript
• Agile software development

3. Eclipse Orion
„Open Source Platform
for Cloud Based Development“
This is not the Eclipse IDE in the browser
This is not the Eclipse RAP project

4. Why (web | cloud | browser) ?

5. Innovation happens here

6. The JavaScript Story
http://www.maztek.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/javascript.jpg

7. We are already there
Bugzilla, Hudson, Jenkins, Bamboo, Jira
GitHub, Gerrit
documentation
(„google“ first) help
Firebug,Web Inspector, Chrome Dev Tools

8. Eclipse Orion
provides the missing pieces:
lightweight and ultra-fast editor
file navigation
search
running unit tests

9. Eclipse Orion
(all JavaScript client)
Editor Component
JSLint
navigator
Git integration
site hosting
sign-on
Eclipse Orion
(hosted or local)
serve JS/HTMS/CSS/files search
OSGi (Java)
Git integration sign-on
content assist
folding

10. Eclipse Orion
Now live...

11. Extensibility
client-side extensibility (via plugins)
under the hood:
sandboxed via hidden iframes
puristic API

12. Orion is very modular
& re-usable
e.g.
Scripted
a lightweight JavaScript editor
that runs in your browser

13. Not alone...
Cloud 9 IDE
Codenvy
GitHub
TypeScript tooling
...

14. Benefits
scalability build-in
trivial update mechanism
available from everywhere
powerful UIs possible
more open
...

15. Challenges
network connectivity - offline mode
where is my code?
existing tooling not easily transferable
(todays tools far away from
usable for day-to-day Java development)

16. Give it a try:
http://orionhub.org

17. Resources
Eclipse Orion
http://www.eclipse.org/orion/
OrionHub
https://orionhub.org/
Scripted project
https://github.com/scripted-editor/scripted

18. Martin Lippert,VMware
mlippert@vmware.com, @martinlippert
Q&A
and thank you for your attention