ECF is a communication framework and an increasing set of integrated tools. ECF provides APIs useful for the development of Equinox-based servers, RCP applications, and Eclipse-based development tools. The provider architecture supports the use of existing communications services, such as Google Talk and UI integration with web-based services, and other Eclipse-based tools. For example, for the upcoming Ganymede release, ECF is working on real-time shared editing of source code to support distributed team use cases like code reviews and collaborative debugging.

This presentation was recorded at Eclipse Day at the Googleplex on June 24, 2008.

Total running time 47:55 minutes

Plug-ins are everywhere in Eclipse so come learn about how to develop them! Depending on the audience, for the first half of the talk, I will discuss what a plug-in is and what tooling is provided around developing plug-ins. For the second half, I will discuss tips and tricks that can save you time in developing plug-ins and will also talk about some lesser known, but extremely useful, parts of PDE.

This presentation was recorded at Eclipse Day at the Googleplex on June 24, 2008.

About Chris Aniszczyk:
Chris Aniszczyk is the technical lead for the Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) project at Eclipse. Chris also commits on various other Eclipse projects, has the honor to represent the committers on the Eclipse Board of Directors and sits on the Eclipse Architecture Council. Chris's passions are blogging, software advocacy, tooling and anything Eclipse. He's always available to discuss open-source or Eclipse over a frosty beverage.

Total running time 47:34 minutes

In this screencast you are going to see some of the more interesting changes made to the Java development tools for the 3.4 release of Eclipse (Ganymede):

• Extract class refactoring
• New quick assists
• Java editor breadcrumb

Total running time 03:00 minutes

In the course of getting ready for the Ganymede launch, Mustafa Isik from the Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF) team, put together a short screencast showcasing the first incarnation of "Cola: Real-Time Shared Editing" for Eclipse. Follow Mustafa and his friend Thomas K. as they lead you through an exemplary shared editing session.

You can enjoy a high resolution version of the screencast by clicking on the HD icon when doing a mouseover (full 720p glory).

Total running time 08:07 minutes

Many people seem to have problems rocking PHP with Eclipse. It can be confusing if you are not familiar with Eclipse and are just trying to find your first real PHP development environment. The guys from PHPDeveloperBlog have some nice videos regarding this problem up on youtube. They will help you get started in no time.

Total running time:

• Video 1 - 08:50 minutes
• Video 2 - 08:51 minutes

What do OpenID, the Higgins Project, i-names and XDI (XRI Data Interchange) all have in common? They all use the XRI 2.0 digital identifier specifications and XRDS discovery format from the OASIS XRI (Extensible Resource Identifier) Technical Committee. Come to this one-hour webinar and learn:

• Why distributed directories, digital identity frameworks, ontologies, reputation systems, and other emerging Web technologies need abstract structured identifiers
• How XRI syntax combines the best features of URNs (Uniform Resource Names) and HFNs (Human-Friendly Names)
• How XRIs are backwards-compatabile with URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) and IRIs (Internationalized Resource Identifiers)
• How XRDS documents are rapidly becoming the defacto service discovery format for user-centric identity and data portability
• The problems XRI and XRDS solved for OpenID Authentication 2.0

A question and answer period will occur following the presentation.

Eclipse EMF Search is a project aiming to provide an Eclipse Search integration for EMF Models to developers & end users.

Meta Tooling is a paradigm meaning EMF Search frameworks & features are heavily relying on Ecore meta model and provide code generation facilities to produce specific extensions of these frameworks for arbitrary user defined Ecore models.

In this example we will demo the code generation allowing to produce a textual Search/Replace infrastructure for a given user model.

Primary focus will consist in configuring the code generator by selecting a subset of textual feature and then using code produced on sample data in a runtime workbench.

Demo will contain use cases for :

• Code generator setting
• Search textual queries
• Textual replace

delicious | digg | dzone

Developers from LAMP created a second Eclipse plugin that offers support for Scala development, entitled the Scala Developer Tools (SDT). This plugin is a first attempt to build a high quality IDE for Scala on top of Eclipse. Daniel Spiewak created a short screencast to illustrate some of the highlights of the plugin's new editor. No attempt was made to hide the bugs which cropped up during testing, so the screencast should give a fair approximation of the current state of the plugin and whether it’s worth trying for your own projects.

Total running time 05:56 minutes

This screencast introduces some of the basics of using Eclipse. It builds on the setup and configuration work that others have already contributed to the community. This is no opus magnum, but I hope that it will get you started with Eclipse and developing with Sakai.

Lance Speelmon leads Indiana University's development efforts in the SakaiProject.org collaboration, a landmark venture to create open-source course management tools and related software for the higher education community.

About Sakai
Sakai is an online Collaboration and Learning Environment. Many users of Sakai deploy it to support teaching and learning, ad hoc group collaboration, support for portfolios and research collaboration.

Sakai is a free and open source product that is built and maintained by the Sakai community. Sakai's development model is called "Community Source" because many of the developers creating Sakai are drawn from the "community" of organizations that have adopted and are using Sakai.

Erwin van der Koogh shows you how to use templates in this Eclipse tip.

Templates can make your coding life a lot easier, by just typing a short word and pressing ctrl+space, et voila, a complete line of code or even better! Just check it out.

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