Leveraging the Eclipse Ecosystem for the Scientific Community Tony ANSTO Andy ESRF ICALEPCS 2005

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)

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Eclipse

Eclipse Invasion Eclipse Workshop EPICS Workshop TANGO Workshop MDA Workshop Oral Presentations  MDA Control Systems and Eclipse (TU1.4)  Eclipse Ecosystem (TH3A.3)  EPICS Office (FR2.6)

What is Eclipse? Official Definition:  Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software. Eclipse Evolution  Version 1.0: Open Source Java IDE  Version 2.0: Universal Tooling Platform  Version 3.0: Platform for Rich Client Application

Eclipse as an IDE Language supported:  Java, C/C++, C#, FORTRAN, Ruby, Python, Ada, AspectJ……you name it!! Agile Method  Incremental build, Refactoring Test Driven Development  JUnit Test, Automated Testing Framework Model Driven Software Development  Open Architectureware Team Concurrent Development support  CVS, Subversion Plus More  ANT support, Interactive Debugger, Visual Editor…

Eclipse Overview Platform Runtime Workspace Help Team Workbench JFace SWT Eclipse Project Java Development Tools (JDT) Their Tool Your Tool Another Tool Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) Eclipse Platform Debug

Eclipse Ecosystem 30+ open source official Eclipse projects commercial / open source plug-ins EclipsePlugins Eclipse Plugin Central

8 Top Level Eclipse Project I The Eclipse Project  Platform, Java, Plug-in development support The Eclipse Tools Project  Modelling, C/C++, UML The Eclipse Technology Project  Academic / Research, Embedded System, Communication, Application Lifecycle management The Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project  J2EE development

8 Top Level Eclipse Project II The Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform Project (TPTP) Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools Project (BIRT) Data Tools Platform Project (DTP) Device Software Development Platform (DSDP)

Eclipse Consortium

Eclipse Phenomena Wide range of mainstream IT industry users  Official use: 2%  8% in last 6 month (end of ’04)  Unofficial use: 44% (end of ’04) Becoming a new teaching tool in universities Increasing popularity among the scientific community Eclipse’s open source model is changing the future of software industry

New Software Collaboration Model IDE Applications  IBM Websphere Studio, JBuilder 2006, Eclipse, Palm OS Developer Suite Software Testing Tools  IBM Rational Application Tester, Scapa Test & Performance Platform Commercial Part Open Source Platform Collaborate Compete Product AProduct B

Eclipse RCP RCP = Rich Client Platform RCP = Really Cool Product!? Subset of Eclipse  minium set of component to build a standalone application A common platform for collaboration  Good framework contributes up to 80% of code  Better spend more effort on business logic  Code sharing with your community  Leverage existing Eclipse plug-in to your application!!

Simple RCP

Extreme Eclipse BitTorrent  Azureus (top sourceforge project) SchoolEclipse  School management Gmail eBay French Wine Test

Parallel Tool Platform (PTP) Running and debugging application on parallel computing environment Collaborative effort between Los Alamos National Laboratory, Monash University, IBM, Intel, … Good example of cross domain open source collaboration Official Eclipse sponsored project

GumTree Platform Open source application framework for building a scientific workbench that supports data acquisition and data analysis Control System Neutral  TANGO, EPICS, SICS… Visualisation Tool Neutral  OpenGL, VTK, ISAW, Ptplot… Data Format Neutral  HDF, XML, NeXus… Collaboration  ANSTO, ESRF, ILL, PSI, and SAFARI-1 Reactor

GumTree Philosophy Leveraging many Java / Eclipse technologies Code reusability A common software platform in control system / experimental physics domain Platform for software collaboration

Breaking News!! Eclipse Community for the Control System Community has been Proposed!!  EPICS Office  GumTree community  Existing Eclipse based CS applications  Eclipse user group in ICALEPCS  Plus the huge Eclipse community We should not only leverage the IDE technology, but also leverage their model for collaboration.

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Eclipse History Started by IBM since 1998  A platform to unite IBM Visual Age products. IBM handed over the control to a NOT FOR PROFIT consortium, the Eclipse Foundation, at 2004  IBM also donated $40million to the Eclipse Foundation The Eclipse Foundation now as over 100 commercial members  Each member must use Eclipse technology on at least one of their project

Eclipse Architecture Software Development Medical Billing System Scientific Computing