Have you ever found yourself juggling multiple installations of the Eclipse IDE for a single project? Maybe you wanted to write some backend in Java using Springboot, and a frontend with Javascript. Maybe you even have a lot of Eclipse IDE Installations on your development machine right at this moment.
How do you manage all those installations? Or the existing workspaces mapped to the IDEs?
The Eclipse Installation Manager is a tool that wants to streamline your development process by providing a single entrypoint that displays available intallations and workspaces and allows the developer to start an installation with a specific workspace. Additionally we hope to provide functionality to configure and manage installations and workspaces, making the tool as the go-to hub for your Eclipse Applications.
The whole project is a Bachelors thesis at the Institute of Software Engineering at the University of Stuttgart and therefore only little knowledge is necessary to understand this session. We will work with the Eclipse Modeling Framework and the Eclipse Oomph Project to not only show the power of EMF, but also how quickly OSGi and EMF can create a powerful, useful tool. Of course knowledge about OSGi, Eclipse Oomph, the Eclipse Modeling Framework is of use.
Ultimately we will show the audience the idea and implementation of the tool and showcase its capabilities. We want to introduce a new workflow for developers regularly working with various Eclipse Applications.
