Equinox p2 is a component of the Eclipse Equinox project. p2 provides a framework for provisioning Eclipse-based applications. It replaces Update Manager as a mechanism for managing your Eclipse install, searching for updates and installing new functionality.

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Total running time will be approximately 1 hour

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The performance of many enterprise Java applications can typically be poor, forcing affected companies to pay the high price of lost sales and tarnished reputations. Fortunately, proactive attention to the performance of an application while it is being developed can eliminate most performance issues before your customers ever see them.

Join Ian Skerret, Director of Marketing, Eclipse Foundation and Java Expert Steven Haines, CEO/Founder of GeekCap, Inc., as they present an overview of the Eclipse ecosystem and a strategy for identifying memory leaks in Java applications from the comfort of your Eclipse Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE). You will learn:

• How the Java garbage collector works
• The nature of memory leaks and how to avoid them
• How to configure the automated analysis of unit test case memory usage inside Eclipse
• How to regularly generate memory profiles in a repeatable fashion

Total running time will be approximately 1 hour

Are you a designer, product manager or developer who has users of various skills that use your Eclipse Applications?

Many software vendors are shipping their own specialized versions of Eclipse (either as RCP or on top of Platform), but rarely are the vendors taking advantage of Eclipse’s customizable presentation layer. This is often because the vendor has a requirement to deliver their application as plug-ins into a standard Eclipse install. If you want to keep this ability, you have to design and implement your plug-ins with that in mind; or if your tool is used by business users and developers, then creating a simplified presentation for the business user persona can drastically lower the barrier of entry for this group. This webinar will go into both user interaction design and GUI development strategies to make your Eclipse plug-ins work with or without your own presentation implementation, and what the design limitations are to the Eclipse Presentation API.

Topics that will be covered:

• Brief overview of the presentation API
• Design limitations of the Presentation API - make sure the UI design is implementable
• The dual presentation world - design Eclipse assets that work in your UI as well as Eclipse standard presentation
• Implementation strategies to make your own views, actions and editors take advantage of your special presentation
• In practice - an example of a dual presentation product

Total running time will be approximately 1 hour

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The first generation of web applications sacrificed usability and function for ease of deployment. Recently the industry has shifted back to richer user interfaces written in Ajax, Flash, and Java. Many business applications have requirements such as offline access, desktop integration and UI customizations or responsiveness that make Ajax and Flash less attractive. For such applications, rich client architectures featuring online deployment and web enabled client/server communications provide the easiest path to development success. Eclipse's Rich Client Platform provides organizations a valuable jump start in the creation of such applications.

However, a number of the core functions of such business applications are not handled transparently by Eclipse RCP out of the box.

This talk emerges out of the experiences Kevin's team gained while working on a large Eclipse RCP/J2EE enterprise application (millions of lines of code). It will address the gap between the standard functionality of Eclipse RCP and what is needed for the creation of polished highly usable business applications. Among the topics covered:

• Dividing responsibilities between the RCP client and J2EE Server
• Applying the MVP pattern to RCP client views facilitating easier unit testing
• Eclipse Application Updating
• Employing the JFace Databinding API to decouple models and UI widgets
• Structuring form-level validation and error handling
• Notification and synchronization of data between the client and server
• Managing disconnected network functionality
• Client side database strategies

Total running time will be approximately 1 hour

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Security is an important concern for applications written on top of Equinox and the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. Spanning areas such as protection of sensitive user data, authentication of platform users and authorization of bundle code, Eclipse has a growing list of features to support important security related use cases. In this session, we will cover the new enhancements related to security in the Ganymede release of Eclipse and Equinox. In particular, we will discuss the following new features:

• Secure storage – protecting sensitive data (e.g. passwords) using encryption
• Trusted Bundles – denying the loading of bundles based on signer information
• Login Framework – integrating authentication of users based on JAAS

The format of the webinar will be a presentation plus some live demos, and will be similar in nature to those presented at the security-related EclipseCon sessions in March. Attendees should be familiar with the fundamentals of Java security and with the core concepts of Eclipse RCP and the Equinox framework. .

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Equinox p2 is a component of the Eclipse Equinox project. p2 provides a framework for provisioning Eclipse-based applications. It replaces Update Manager as a mechanism for managing your Eclipse install, searching for updates and installing new functionality.

Total running time 1 hour, 08:26 minutes

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Memory leaks or high memory consumption are difficult to tackle: Not only do you need familiarity with the code involved, but also experience in troubleshooting such problems. That's where the Eclipse Memory Analyzer comes in. The Memory Analyzer is a heap dump analyzer which immediately shows the biggest objects, groups objects by class loaders and adds application knowledge to make sense out of the millions of objects in a typical heap dump.

This webinar will take you on a hands-on tour of the most important features:

• Generate a report listing possible leaks and find out why the object is not garbage collected
• Analyze the memory consumption of components (WAR or plug-ins) and show ways to reduce it

The webinar is targeted at Java developers. It requires no specific knowledge but assumes a basic understanding of how Java garbage collection works.

Total running time 54:48 minutes

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For over a decade now, Oracle TopLink has delivered a premiere Java persistence solution. With the open sourcing of the complete TopLink product in the Eclipse Persistence Services ('EclipseLink') Project, a new era has begun. EclipseLink delivers a comprehensive set of persistence services addressing relational, XML and non-relational data stores through standard interfaces including JPA, JAXB, SDO and JCA. In this webinar, we will introduce the EclipseLink project and its various persistence services, with a focus on its object-relational JPA implementation including a demonstration of how it can be used within various Java containers.

Total running time 53:43 minutes

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Building on the introductory "MyEclipse Blue Edition" webinar, this webinar will look at a more typical application development scenario to provide more insight into the MyEclipse Blue Edition IDE.