Eclipse RCP

BDeploy - Large Scale Deployment Tooling

Markus Duft (SSI Schaefer IT Solutions GmbH)

Deploying applications can be hard. Especially if you're not (yet, fully) on a "modern" cloud stack, and even worse: have huge customer specific individual-software which frequently changes.

At SSI Schaefer we were confronted with a huge problem: We have multiple Eclipse RCP based applications, some of them real Rich Clients, some actually headless server applications which use the same framework (Equinox, etc.). All those applications sum up to a few GB of size, built from hundreds of bundles in a huge Workspace.

Experience level:

Intermediate

Other Cool Stuff

STEM 4.0: Helping save the World from COVID-19, Ebola and other Diseases

Werner Keil (Self Employed)

ahmad swaid (Federal Institute for Risk Assessment)

Sekou Remy (IBM Research)

Oliver Bent (Student)

In Dan Brown's bestselling thriller, Inferno, world-renowned art historian Robert Langdon raced across southern Europe, trying to prevent the spread of a highly infectious novel virus that threatens to circle the globe in less than a week.
In 2020 not far from the filming locations, Italy became one of the worst affected places by the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Experience level:

Beginner

Built on Eclipse Technologies

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

Migrating Eclipse STEM to the cloud

ahmad swaid (Federal Institute for Risk Assessment)

Cloud solutions is an interest for every software company or software owner in the world.
But what if you have already an old and good software and a community uses it.

The migration of any software is always a huge work and needs a good plan.
On the other side, Eclipse Community has share over years a lot of technologies and libraries which enable us if we have in a good design to run an Eclipse OSGI plugins on any cloud native provider.

Experience level:

Beginner

Cloud Native Java

Microservices and the Modular UI

Patrick Paulin (Modular Mind)

While microservice architecture has become extremely common, its use in the UI layer is still somewhat rare and difficult. Building microservices in the UI layer (sometimes called Micro Frontends) requires well-thought-out support frameworks that allow for collaboration between loosely coupled and independently deployable components. Well it turns out that the Eclipse Platform developers have been innovating and fine-tuning such frameworks for the last 20 years, and in this session we'll explore what they have to teach us.

Experience level:

Beginner

Web and Desktop Tools & IDEs

BDeploy - How to install and manage Business Applications

Markus Duft (SSI Schaefer IT Solutions GmbH)

Software developers create software. That’s somewhat natural. But what most software developers don't think about, is how this software is run in the end.

We (SSI Schaefer) have been facing challenges with deployment for years. SSI Schaefer is building large scale business applications based on the Eclipse RCP platform. These applications are installed on thousands of customer servers, and the client applications on even more customer client PCs. We absolutely need an easy, straight forward way to be able to package, transfer, install, configure, run and update these applications.

Experience level:

Beginner

Other Cool Stuff

Eclipse Theia 1.0 - The new platform for engineering tools

Sven Efftinge (TypeFox GmbH)

Eclipse Theia is a new platform for building cloud and desktop tools for engineers and developers. It's a truely open-source, vendor neutral IDE framework based on modern technology and is already adopted by Google, SAP, arm, Alibaba, RedHat, IBM, Ericsson, TypeFox and many others.

In this session I want to walk you through the history of the project, take a deep dive into its current state and explain how we managed to grow a very active and diverse community.

Experience level:

Beginner

Tools & IDEs

Pimp my RCP App : UX Benefits of a e4 Migration

Laurent CARON (Akuiteo)

Akuiteo is a french company that publishes Akuiteo ERP, a software management platform for services companies.

Our main front-end product is an Eclipse RCP-based application. This product was launched in 2007, and our last technical migration (from RCP 3.5 to RCP 3.7) occured in 2012.

After 5 years, it was time to enter in a new era by changing the engine and migrating to e4 !

I'll present the different steps, the doubts, the pitfalls and eventually the success !

Experience level:

Intermediate

Built on Eclipse

DBeaver: efficient way to work with SQL and NoSQL from Eclipse IDE.

Tatiana Krupenya (dbeaver.com)

Serge Rider (dbeaver.com)

Most of us, developers, use databases quite regularly.
SQL, NoSQL, flat-files, spreadsheets - it does not matter. We change our databases frequently. But we don't like to change our tools, we prefer to have one solid interface. Best option if our tools are integrated into our favorite IDE.

Experience level:

Beginner

Tools & IDEs