Eclipse IDE

With the increasing complexity of projects, many users and teams rely on various kinds of analyses to check if their work (code, models, requirements, etc.) is correct. While various analyses are often performed as part of the CI/CD pipelines, many users would prefer to perform them before submitting (publishing) their work. Yet many analysis tools needs to be installed, configured, and started externally, which can be difficult for many users, especially when they are not proficient with the tools.

Experience level:

Beginner

Web and Desktop Tools & IDEs

Eclipse Tips & Tricks

Lakshmi P Shanmugam (IBM)

Vikas Chandra (IBM)

With close to 20 years of releases, numerous plug-ins & extensions and a huge developer base, Eclipse IDE is one of the most popular IDEs for developers working across multiple domains and languages. It’s particularly popular in the Java ecosystem where it provides a robust environment for developing, running and debugging applications.

Experience level:

Beginner

Web and Desktop Tools & IDEs

Structured Concurrency with Project Loom

Sarika Sinha (IBM)

One of Java's most important contributions when it was first released, over twenty years ago, was the easy access to threads and synchronization primitives.
The Java threads are currently implemented as OS kernel threads which is insufficient for meeting modern demands, and wasteful in computing resources that are particularly valuable in the cloud. Project Loom will introduce fibers (virtual threads) as lightweight, efficient threads managed by the Java Virtual Machine, that let developers use the same simple abstraction but with better performance and lower footprint.

Experience level:

Beginner

Java & JDT

What’s New in the Eclipse Platform Project

Karsten Thoms (Karakun AG)

This session takes a look back on the past year and 4 releases of the Eclipse Platform. I will give some insights on the work being done on the platform projects. Besides demonstrating some added features I will take a look behind the scenes:

- Who is currently involved in the development of the Platform?
- How active is the user and contributor community involved?
- Which improvements have been made in regards to performance and usability?

Experience level:

Beginner

Web and Desktop Tools & IDEs

Eclipse Tips and Tricks

Lakshmi P Shanmugam (IBM)

Sarika Sinha (IBM)

The Eclipse IDE is one of the most popular IDEs releasing successfully every quarter. It comes packed with a lot of powerful features and capabilities that enable the users to be more productive in their day to day work. With the faster release cadence and active community contributions many new features are added in every release. But, we often come across bugs and posts from users asking for features that exist in the Eclipse IDE already for many releases or have been added recently.

Experience level:

Beginner

Web and Desktop Tools & IDEs

BNDTools for RCP and RAP Developers

Jürgen Albert (Data In Motion Consulting GmbH)

Have you ever stumbled upon one of the following issues while developing RCP or RAP Applications:

Getting a clean Targetplatform.
Including Bundles that are not contained in a p2 Repository.
Assembling a Application that contain only the bundles it really requires.

Experience level:

Intermediate

OSGi

Marketing an IDE to Developers - lessons and hints

Sopot Cela (Red Hat, Inc.)

Developers are a queer bunch when it comes to marketing. They have developed an amazing smell for 'corporatey' marketing techniques and guess what - they don't like it.

In this presentation we'll turn things upside down - you'll see what a developer can do when he decides to do marketing.

You'll be surprised.

Experience level:

Beginner

Welcome to Open Source

What GraalVM means for the Eclipse IDE

Martin Lippert (Pivotal Software, Inc now under VMWare-April 2020)

GraalVM is a new high-performance polyglot VM from Oracle that will probably replace the HotSpot JVM sometime in the future. Reason enough to take a look at the first releases of the GraalVM and explore what that means for Eclipse. This talks gives an intro to GraalVM, explains the different pieces, and explores possible ways to use GraalVM together with the Eclipse IDE. Among the topics we will talk about:

Experience level:

Intermediate

Java & JDT

The Magic of Quick Text Search explained

Martin Lippert (Pivotal Software, Inc now under VMWare-April 2020)

Once experienced you don’t want to live without it anymore: the simple but powerful quick text search extension for Eclipse. This little extension provides you full text search-as-you-type in Eclipse, and combines outstanding performance with simplicity. While being contributed to the Eclipse platform (at the moment), this session will provide a deep look under the hood - and unveil and explain all the details of this feature:

Experience level:

Intermediate

Tools & IDEs

Shifting security left using the Eclipse IDE

Brian Vermeer (Snyk)

We all know that security is important and you probably care about it a lot. However, we find that handling security issues often means following the analysis offered by a report located in an external system, or reading a PDF.

How can we actually shift security left and make it really easy for developers to avoid using libraries with vulnerabilities? With Snyk’s security tools, you don’t need to leave your favorite IDE to check for vulnerable dependencies during development.

Experience level:

Beginner

Tools & IDEs