PDE | EclipseCon - Eclipse Foundation

Leveraging API Tools in Eclipse development

API tools is important in Eclipse for API related management. However many times, the API Tools errors and warnings are not understood properly. The aim of this session will be to promote usage and understanding of API Tools.

In this session, I will cover the most commonly used API Tools related errors and warnings and the reasons behind it. I will go through

1) Setup

Experience level:

Beginner

Web and Desktop Tools & IDEs

Migrating from PDE to Bndtools in Practice

Amit Kumar Mondal (Deutsche Telekom AG)

Jochen Hiller (Deutsche Telekom AG)

QIVICON is an Eclipse SmartHome based solution from Deutsche Telekom AG. It utilises OSGi to provide a modular Java runtime.

Since the beginning, QIVICON leveraged Eclipse PDE with Maven & Eclipse Tycho as its build technology but over the time, the complexity increased. It became hard to get an overview and manage the runtime and build dependencies. Especially maintaining target configurations for IDE and CI/CD build, having different embedded gateways for installation increased complexity significantly.

Experience level:

Beginner

OSGi