cloud IDE

Containers and Container Platforms are getting into every enterprise. Whether the applications are Cloud Native or existing monoliths containers are being used for all kinds of apps.

But how about using containers as developer workstation. Think about :

- Containerized runtime for your applications while being developed

- Workspace containerized

- IDE containerized

- Application development, building and debugging all within a container

- Integration with a source control repository

Some of the key difficulties of managing large development teams are ensuring consistency across developer environments, helping new developers get their tooling and dependencies set up, and enforcing consistency among dev, test, and production environments. Eclipse Che solves this problem by provisioning and managing developer environments in the cloud on top of Kubernetes distributions like OpenShift.

Do you have a technology that you believe is suitable for cloud native development? Do you want to take advantage of the cloud native IDE. In this talk we are going to show how you can extend Eclipse Che with your technology and make it discoverable to the world.

You might know Eclipse Che as an open source web IDE for cloud native applications. The next generation of Che will also be a cloud-native platform for web IDEs in addition to being an IDE. Just like the original Eclipse IDE itself, you will be able to completely customize the developer experience with both server-side and client-side plug-ins!

Eclipse Theia is a new project for developing IDE-like applications that run as native desktop apps or in browsers. While its scope is similar to the Eclipse RCP platform the technology stack is very different.

In this session, I will explain Theia’s architecture and the technology it is based on by means of Eclipse, Java and Eclipse RCP concepts and terminology. We will go through the most important ideas and compare them to something you are familiar with. I will point out similarities as well as differences to give you a solid overview of the topic.

Eclipse Che has recently decided to adopt Eclipse Theia as the default web IDE provided with its developer workspaces. This is a huge step toward improving the extensibility of the IDE, embracing modern web technologies such as TypeScript, React and other JS frameworks.

From our experience developing an IDE with the GWT framework, we are providing two important extensibility mechanisms to Eclipse Che: