1. An Introduction to Eclipse
Feng Lue
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2. Agenda A little History Plug-in Architecture Eclipse Platform
Plug-ins for diverse Developments
Conclusion and Future
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3. A little history What should an IDE be?
Editor, Compiler, Code Generation, Project Management, Team Support, UML, Refactoring, Sever Manipulation, Reception, MP3, …
1983, Turbo Pascal --> 1994, Visual C/C++ --> 2001, Eclipse
“Eclipse is an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular. “
Platform Independent, Plug-in Architecture
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4. Plug-in Architecture
Plug-in is the smallest function unit that can developed and delivered separately
A system can be extended by adding on modular pieces
Core application
Plug-ins at well known extension points
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5. Plug-in Architecture (cont’d)
Advantages
flexible
maintainable
well adapted for distributed developments
“on-the-fly” modification
Disadvantages
performance
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6. The Eclipse Platform Main Component Runtime Workspace Workbench
SWT/JFace
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7. The Eclipse Platform (cont’d)
Platform Runtime
The small kernel to manage plug-ins
Workspace
Consists of projects
Regular files for user, history, marker
SWT  JFace  Workbench
An extensible UI structure
SWT: graphic library for native OS
JFace: for common UI programming (viewer, action…)
Workbench (Editor, View, Perspective, Wizard…)
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8. JDT for Java Developer Java project management
Editing (Syntax highlighting, formatter, Auto completion, API tooltips …)
Search
Refactoring
Compile, Run, Debug
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9. Plug-in Development Using PDE Process Creating new plug-in Project
Editing manifest file (Dependencies, Extensions, Runtime)
Coding
Testing and Deploying plug-in
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10. For C/C++ Developer Using CDT plug-in Multi-language support
Editor, Debugger, Launcher, Parser,
Makefile generator
Content Assist Provider
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11. For J2EE Developer MyEclipse plug-ins
Full J2EE development life-cycle support; code, deploy, test & debug
Integrated Struts, JSF and XML development
Database explorer
More on
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12. Conclusion Advanced Architecture Flexible and extensible
Over 500 plug-ins now
Supported by more and more vendors
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