1. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 1 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org Lawrence Mandel, IBM Eclipse Web and J2EE Development

2. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 2 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org My Background ■ Software Developer at IBM Toronto Lab –Focus on Web Service and XML Tools –Rational Application Developer V6 –WebSphere Studio Application Developer V5 ■ Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project –Ecosystem Lead –Work on validators, URI Resolver framework, Cache ■ Committer on Apache Woden Project –Building a WSDL 2.0 validating parser

3. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 3 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org J2EE Scenario ■ Java class accesses data from a database ■ Java class exposed as a Web service

4. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 4 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org Agenda ■ Overview ■ Demo of the Web and J2EE Tools ■ Extending the Web Tools Platform ■ Call for Participation ■ Q&A

5. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 5 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org Overview ■ Historically Eclipse is a Java IDE ■ Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) project –formally launched in June 2004 –Extends the Eclipse Platform with tools and APIs for Web and J2EE application development ■ WTP has two subprojects: –Web Standard Tools (WST) –J2EE Standard Tools (JST) ■ Includes tools for HTML, XML, Web Services, J2EE, Data ■ Includes Server tools for integrating application servers, e.g. Tomcat, Geronimo, JBoss, WebSphere, WebLogic

6. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 6 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org WTP Subproject Scopes IETF W3C OASIS WS-I ECMA ANSI De Jure Standards De Facto Standards Web Technologies Java Technologies WST HTML, XML, XSLT, CSS, JS, WSDL, SOAP, UDDI JST Servlet, JSP, EJB, JAX-RPC, JDBC, JAXP, JSF, J2EE PHPStruts Hibernate Spring JDOSQL JCP Apache ObjectWeb SourceForge

7. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 7 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org WTP Support and Collaboration ■ WTP has support of companies, organizations, academia – BEA, IBM, Oracle, JBoss, ObjectWeb, UBC, UofT ■ WTP collaborates with other open projects and standards bodies –Apache, W3C, WS-I ■ In fact, the WS-I Java test tools are developed by WTP

8. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 8 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org WTP Roadmap ■ WTP 0.7, July 2005 – End User Tools ■ WTP 1.0, December 2005 – Platform APIs ■ WTP 1.5, June 2006 – Java EE 5.0

9. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 9 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org Demo ■ Stage 1: expose existing Java class as Web service ■ Stage 2: modify Java class to retrieve data from database ■ Stage 3: modify Web service interface new!

10. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 10 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org The Web and J2EE Tools ■ There are several different types of development tools for Web and J2EE development ■ Relational Database ■ XML ■ Web Services ■ Server ■ J2EE

11. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 11 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org Relational Database Tools ■ Connection Wizard –Easily create live connections to a database server using a JDBC driver ■ Multi-vendor support –Apache Derby –MySQL –DB2

12. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 12 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org Relational Database Tools ■ Server Explorer –view database elements including tables, views, stored procedures, and user-defined functions. –Supports both Live and Offline modes ■ Dependency constraints indicated ■ Browse Data directly from the tables

13. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 13 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org Relational Database Tools ■ SQL Scrapbook –A SQL utility/editor which can be used to test SQL commands to be executed to a connected server in the Server Explorer.

14. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 14 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org XML Tools ■ XML and XSD graphical editors –Assisted editing of XML content –Constraints enforced –Concise overview of documents

15. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 15 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org XML Tools ■ XML Catalog –Customize XML resource resolution –Based on OAGIS XML Catalog standard –Add DTD, XSD, or any XML resource (WSDL, XSL, etc.)

16. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 16 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org Web Service Tools ■ Graphical WSDL/XSD Editor –Edit your WSDL file without wrestling with the syntax –Visual overview of Web service

17. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 17 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org Web Service Tools ■ XML Schema, WSDL, and WS-I validators –Ensure your documents conform to standards (WSDL, XSD) and standard extensions (WS-I)

18. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 18 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org Web Service Tools ■ WS-I Test Tools integration in the Eclipse Web Tools –Preference for setting the WS-I conformance level

19. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 19 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org Web Service Tools ■ Wizard to create Web service top-down (from WSDL) and bottom-up (from Java). ■ Wizard creates a Java stub that binds to a Web service. ■ Wizard can optionally configure test client and deployment of your Web service

20. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 20 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org Web Service Tools ■ Web Service Explorer –Publish/Discover Web services. –Invoke Web services dynamically. No code generation required for testing.

21. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 21 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org Server Tools ■ Server runtime preference page –Add multiple runtimes ■ Multi-vendor support –Apache Tomcat, JBoss, JoNAS, WebSphere

22. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 22 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org Server Tools ■ Server control view –Start, stop, publish, debug, configure servers –Shows current server state

23. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 23 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org J2EE Tools ■ New Web project wizard –Select server –Select J2EE version –Customize environment

24. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 24 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org J2EE Tools ■ New Servlet wizard –Manage deployment descriptor –Create Servlet class

25. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 25 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org J2EE Tools ■ EJB preference page and wizard –Uses XDoclet

26. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 26 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org Extending the Web Tools Platform ■ WTP is a platform that allows for extension ■ Some interesting WTP extension points –Server –Structured Source Editing

27. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 27 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org Server Extensions ■ Server Tools –Comes with server adapters for Tomcat, etc. ■ Extension points allow you to… –add other server adapters ■ Useful to… –Create adapters for servers with no current adapter e.g. Apache Web Server –Create adapters for custom servers e.g. those created as part of course work

28. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 28 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org Structured Source Editing Extensions ■ Structured Source Editing (SSE) –Editing framework for XML-like file types (XML, JSP, HTML) ■ Extension points allow you to… –Add custom context actions, content assist, syntax highlighting, as- you-type validation to editors –Configure property page and outline views –Receive notifications of model changes and perform custom synchronization between model type (eg. EMF and DOM) ■ Useful to… –Create new XML-like editors – e.g. XSL, DocBook, ASP –Customize existing editors by adding function – e.g. new format or snippet options, publish to blog

29. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 29 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org Additional API and Extension Points ■ Some additional API and extension points defined for: –Common Add custom validators –Web services Customize the Web services wizard ► Allow for addition of steps in Web service creation ► Create Web service deployment for another language, e.g. PHP Add support for new binding types to WSDL editor and validator –J2EE Add custom steps to artifact import and creation –Data Add custom database definitions and wizard pages –XML Add actions to graphical XML and XSD editors Add entries to XML catalog

30. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 30 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org Call for Participation ■ Become a user and tell your friends and colleagues ■ Test and report bugs ■ Write tutorials, articles ■ Fix bugs ■ Contribute enhancements ■ Become a committer ■ Develop plug-ins based on WTP ■ Develop Web and J2EE Curriculum ■ Create research projects that extend or use WTP –Volunteer for the WTP usage study ■ Participate at EclipseCon 2006 –http://www.eclipsecon.org

31. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 31 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org Eclipse WTP Usage Study ■ Goals: –Improve Eclipse IDE user experience –Improve organization of commands in Eclipse base and Eclipse-based projects ■ Minimal commitment: –Simply use Eclipse WTP for your daily work –About 10 minutes / week to upload data ■ Data collected: –Edits, navigations, commands, but no identifying information ■ For more information: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~lkf/wtpStudy/ or contact Leah Findlater: lkf@cs.ubc.ca

32. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 32 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org Q&A ■ Questions?

33. Content provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 OOPSLA, San Diego Oct. 16-20, 2005 33 Eclipse Foundation - www.eclipse.org More information is available from… ■ WTP website http://www.eclipse.org/webtools http://www.eclipse.org/webtools ■ WTP newsgroup news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.webtools news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.webtools ■ WTP Community Resources (articles, tutorials, events) http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/community/community.html ■ Lawrence Mandel lmandel@ca.ibm.com