FOSSLC and the University of Ottawa's Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Student Branch hosted an Eclipse Bootcamp on October 8, 2009. Wayne Beaton from the Eclipse Foundation presented an Introduction to Eclipse and Mylyn.

This talk gives a general overview of Eclipse followed by some demos of the Mylyn project. Mylyn provides features for keeping track of bugs and tasks. Mylyn is even capable of reconfiguring your workspace based on the bug/task you are working on.

Thanks to FOSSLC for recording the Bootcamp presentations.

Total running time 44:05 minutes

This webinar will engage participants in the process of developing a custom Dojo widget using the source editors provided by the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP). The focus will be on demonstrating how WTP's suite of editors can be used together to quickly produce a practical, real-world application. Nick will highlight capabilities built into each editor such as validation, syntax highlighting and content assist. Targeted participants are developers who are curious about web development or web developers interested in seeing WTP's capabilities.

9:00 am PDT / 12:00 pm EDT / 4:00 pm GMT - Convert to other time zones

Total running time will be approximately 1 hour

Thanks to Adobe for contributing their Adobe Acrobat Connect product to host this webinar.

Programming SWT/JFace user-interfaces in Java often involves a lot of repetitive boiler-plate code that is overly verbose and hard to map to the user-interface visually. This can significantly hinder maintainability and productivity for Eclipse RCP projects.

Enter Glimmer; a JRuby API for SWT that takes advantage of the expressive Ruby language to provide a simple user-interface DSL (domain-specific language). Developers can rely on Glimmer to build the presentation layer of desktop applications in Ruby while keeping the business logic in Java, or alternatively do complete desktop application development in Ruby. Glimmer comes with built-in data-binding support to greatly facilitate writing maintainable and testable desktop application code.

In this webinar, I will introduce Glimmer, demo the latest features by contrasting the code of an application written in both Glimmer and classic SWT, provide a quick update on the status of the project and finally, have a Q&A and feedback session.

Total running time will be approximately 1 hour

9:00 am PDT / 12:00 pm EDT / 4:00 pm GMT - Convert to other time zones

Thanks to Adobe for contributing their Adobe Acrobat Connect product to host this webinar.

Componentized software is produced by combining and assembling the output of separate development projects into a provisioned system or application. Construction of an efficient build-assemble-provision pipeline, while essential to the overall success of the development process, is typically neglected in favor of "real" development and is generally a thankless task for whoever tackles it. We're left with arcane systems glued together from Ant scripts and other "black arts", builds that fail for inexplicable reasons at the worst times, and arbitrary separation between how software is "built" and how it is "provisioned". Awareness of this problem has grown with each annual Eclipse release, and a number of new Eclipse technologies, from emerging to maturing, are now available to help. These technologies have been used to streamline Eclipse's coordinated release process, and are available to the committer community to address the needs within individual projects.

This talk will survey the landscape of build and provisioning technologies at Eclipse, explaining how overlapping technologies are being rationalized and harmonized, particularly in relation to p2. A key point will be to show how traditional "build" and "provisioning" concerns are actually just two aspects of a single development process. This talk will also demonstrate how modeling technology can be used to describe the artifacts entering the pipeline and the steps required to transform them into the final provisioned system. The goal will be to show how a declarative, high-level description can be used to make the build-assemble-provision pipeline transparent, repeatable and flexible.

Total running time 49:08 minutes

This video was recorded at Eclipse Day at the Googleplex.

For a tool to be successful in an enterprise, it takes much more than writing a great Eclipse plug-in and tossing it out there. Most tool developers focus on the early phases of PDLC such as UI design, coding functionality and performance. These are necessary, but not sufficient. This presentation will cover various other aspects that drive and sustain adoption: testing, deployment mechanisms, usage tracking, maintenance, documentation, support and user education. Joep will discuss the challenges and solutions found at eBay to make Eclipse based tools successful in a large, fast-paced organization.

Part 1 - total running time 40:26 minutes
Part 2 - total running time 16:22 minutes

This video was recorded at Eclipse Day at the Googleplex.

Total running time 43:03 minutes

This video was recorded at Eclipse Day at the Googleplex.

For a tool to be successful in an enterprise, it takes much more than writing a great Eclipse plug-in and tossing it out there. Most tool developers focus on the early phases of PDLC such as UI design, coding functionality and performance. These are necessary, but not sufficient. This presentation will cover various other aspects that drive and sustain adoption: testing, deployment mechanisms, usage tracking, maintenance, documentation, support and user education. Joep will discuss the challenges and solutions found at eBay to make Eclipse based tools successful in a large, fast-paced organization.

Part 1 - total running time 40:26 minutes
Part 2 - total running time 16:22 minutes

This video was recorded at Eclipse Day at the Googleplex.

Programming SWT/JFace user-interfaces in Java often involves a lot of repetitive boiler-plate code that is overly verbose and hard to map to the user-interface visually. This can significantly hinder maintainability and productivity for Eclipse RCP projects.

Enter Glimmer; a JRuby API for SWT that takes advantage of the expressive Ruby language to provide a simple user-interface DSL (domain-specific language). Developers can rely on Glimmer to build the presentation layer of desktop applications in Ruby while keeping the business logic in Java, or alternatively do complete desktop application development in Ruby. Glimmer comes with built-in data-binding support to greatly facilitate writing maintainable and testable desktop application code.

In this webinar, I will introduce Glimmer, demo the latest features by contrasting the code of an application written in both Glimmer and classic SWT, provide a quick update on the status of the project and finally, have a Q&A and feedback session.

Total running time 54:22 minutes

Thanks to Adobe for contributing their Adobe Acrobat Connect product to host this webinar.

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This webinar will engage participants in the process of developing a custom Dojo widget using the source editors provided by the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP). The focus will be on demonstrating how WTP's suite of editors can be used together to quickly produce a practical, real-world application. Nick will highlight capabilities built into each editor such as validation, syntax highlighting and content assist. Targeted participants are developers who are curious about web development or web developers interested in seeing WTP's capabilities.

Total running time 55:37 minutes

Thanks to Adobe for contributing their Adobe Acrobat Connect product to host this webinar.