The Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse member companies are running a series of training classes on Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), Equinox & OSGi and Modeling from October 19 to December 4, 2009.

Lynn and Markus give an overview of the training series, focusing on the modeling course. Markus is a trainer from itemis, one of the Eclipse members running classes this fall. He discusses the main components of modeling, shows an example from the class and explains what to expect in the Modeling course.

For more information on the training schedule, course outlines and registration, visit www.eclipse.org/go/training.

Total running time 06:45 minutes

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.

Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) are becoming more and more popular, allowing developers to express their intent more precisely and with less syntactic noise. DSLs can be built on top of a host language (like Java or Ruby), which are referred to as "internal DSLs". External DSLs are far more flexible in terms of language design: you can define any desired grammar, you can define domain specific constraints and error messages, and you can process the DSL in a concise manner because it can either be interpreted or transformed into the code of any language by a generator.

TMF Xtext, which is a part of the Eclipse Galileo release, is a framework for developing textual domain-specific languages. Given an EBNF-style grammar, Xtext automatically generates an Ecore meta model and a rich-featured, fully configurable text-based DSL editor including features such as syntax highlighting, hyperlinked reference navigation, reference look-up, code completion, formatting, an outline and so on. The default implementation can easily be customized.

In this session Peter will explain what DSLs are and why you should care about using them. After a short introduction, he will show how to develop DSLs with TMF Xtext, which is a part of this year's Galileo release. You will learn how to define a grammar for a DSL and create a full-blown editor for this DSL, featuring code completion, syntax highlighting, hyperlinking, a semantic outline and more. Peter will also show how to write a code generator that allows you to transform your DSL scripts into running software.

Total running time 1 hour, 00:45 minutes

This video was recorded at Eclipse Day at the Googleplex.

Wayne and Lynn give the latest Eclipse news for August 2009. Topics covered are the AJAX Tools Framework (ATF) project, e4 along with the e4 webinars and feedback contest, the EGit project, the Eclipse for Silverlight project, the IP Log approval process, an upcoming Eclipse training series, Eclipse Summit Europe and a Maven repository at Eclipse.

Total running time 14:51 minutes

Welcome to this Visual Rules Screencast. We will show you how to generate a rule service from a rule model with the Visual Rules Modeler and deploy it to the Execution Server.

Total running time 02:36 mintues

SAP hosted an Eclipse DemoCamp in Walldorf, Germany to celebrate the Galileo release. There were 200 attendees and the demos were recorded in 2 parts. This is part 2.

Video 1 - A New View on Tables - a Flexible Framework to Show Tabular Data in SWT Tables and Trees
Michael Scharf (Wind River)
Running time 15:52 minutes

Video 2 - Modeling is Fun!
Achim Demelt (eXXcellent solutions)
Running time 14:32 minutes

Video 3 - Dynamic OSGi Application Using Equinox
Jochen Hiller (Deutsche Telekom AG) & Frank Gerhardt (Gerhardt Informatics)
Running time 15:10 minutes

Video 4 - Equinox Based SOA Security Framework - a Future Eclipse Project
Elmar Eperiesi-Beck (CORISECIO)
Running time 15:29 minutes

Video 5 - Equinox on Servers - an Introduction to the Eclipse Gyrex Project
Gunnar Wagenknecht (AGETO)
Running time 15:21 minutes

Video 6 - Virtual Embedded Devices with OSGi, Eclipse and Flash
Marcus Harringer (MicroDoc GmbH)
Running time 15:32 minutes

Video 7 - TMF Xtext: a Self-Experiment
Guy Philipp Bollbach (itemis)
Running time 19:37 minutes

Xtext is a component in the Modeling/TMF subproject and makes the development of textual domain specific languages (DSLs) straightforward. Just describe your very own language using Xtext's simple EBNF grammar language and the generator will create a parser, an AST-meta model (implemented in EMF), as well as a full-featured Eclipse text editor from that. The Framework integrates with technology from Eclipse Modeling such as EMF, GMF, M2T and EMFT. Development with Xtext is optimized for short turn-arounds, so that adding new features to an existing DSL is a matter of minutes. Still, sophisticated programming languages can be implemented.

In this webinar we will explain what DSLs are and how you can benefit from them in today's software development projects. Language development is no longer rocket science. To prove this, we will demonstrate how to implement a simple DSL for ordering sandwiches, including a parser, code completion, navigation and an outline view. The webinar closes with some more advanced show cases to give a glimpse of what Xtext is able to do.

Some of the examples from the webinar are also available:

• Domain Model and Index
• Xtext and GMF

Total running time 59:11 minutes

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

This Visual Rules Screencast will show you how the Visual Rules Execution Server can be used to integrate business rules into .NET applications. We will create a simple C# client by calling a Web Service for a business rule called "Pricing". The rule is taken from the example ruleset "Movie Ticket Pricing" available within the Visual Rules Modeler. It calculates the price for a movie ticket based on seat, day of week and some other input data.

In the Visual Rules Modeler, our first step will be to deploy the rule project as a Web Service to the Visual Rules Execution Server. Next, we will implement a Web Service call in Microsoft Visual Studio Express.

Total running time 06:45 minutes

The BPMN modeler is a pure Eclipse product. Its semantic model is based on the Eclipse Modeling Framework, it uses the Graphical Modeling Framework to run its editor. It has quite a few more things bundled into it though - we made sure to add a validation builder that creates markers on invalid BPMN diagrams headlessly. We also tweaked and configured the modeler against GMF so we could use the best of the tools it provides. The BPMN modeler is also meant to be embedded into your product. It features a simple drag and drop mechanism to annotate the diagram shapes. It is specifically oriented to be rebranded and integrated into complex products.

The webinar will present the BPMN language, the BPMN modeler features, and will detail some of its little additions.

Total running time 49:13 minutes

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

In this podcast, Ed Merks, EclipseCon 2009 program committee member representing Modeling, discusses the Modeling track, highlights some of the talks, and discusses what's new in the Modeling project.

Total running time 17:01 minutes