Web & Desktop Tools & IDEs

Into the limbus - from RCP desktop development to web-based development

Today a lot of people are discussing about web-/cloud-based tooling. Cloud-based IDEs and platforms like Eclipse Theia are getting more popular, and there is even a statement saying "Eclipse Theia is the Next Generation Eclipse Platform for IDEs and Tools!".

In this talk I want to share my experience when trying to get started with Eclipse Theia as an Eclipse RCP developer. What are the challenges? What do you need to understand when moving to the new tooling? And is the above statement really true?

Experience level:

Beginner

Web & Desktop Tools & IDEs

Theia.cloud - Running Theia-based products in the cloud

Simon Graband (EclipseSource)

Maximilian Koegel (EclipseSource)

Do you want to deploy and host a Theia-based tool to and in the cloud? This talk introduces Theia.cloud, a light-weight and Kubernetes-centric framework for deploying and running Theia-based IDEs and tools to and in the cloud.

Experience level:

Beginner

Web & Desktop Tools & IDEs

Introducing Eclipse CDT.cloud - C/C++ tooling in the web

Stefan Dirix (EclipseSource)

Do you want to develop a custom tool for C/C++ development in the web/cloud? Are you an adopter of Eclipse CDT and wonder what the next generation of C/C++ tooling at Eclipse looks like? In this talk we introduce CDT.cloud, an umbrella project for technologies, extensions and frameworks for building next-generation, web-based C/C++ tooling.

Experience level:

Beginner

Web & Desktop Tools & IDEs

Getting started with Theia - The nextGen Eclipse Platform

Jonas Helming (EclipseSource)

Are you looking for a modern platform for building a custom tool or IDE that runs in the cloud but also as a desktop application? Do you maintain an existing project based on the Eclipse tools platform, but want to migrate to the next generation tech stack?

In this talk, we get you started with Eclipse Theia, the next generation platform for building tools and IDEs at Eclipse!

Experience level:

Beginner

Web & Desktop Tools & IDEs

From monolith to single-source to single-deployment

Dirk Fauth (Robert Bosch GmbH)

Today you often face discussions whether to develop something for the desktop with a GUI, the web or the command line. It also happens quite often that you start in one area, and while the project evolves, the requirements are changed or extended. To minimize the discussions and to avoid re-implementing functionality, it is a good practice to separate the function from the user interface. Of course the "single-source" approach is nothing new, but probably for developers that started their career good to hear again. :)

Experience level:

Beginner

Web & Desktop Tools & IDEs

Eclipse Extended Contribution Pattern

Dirk Fauth (Robert Bosch GmbH)

In a heterogeneous project setup, it is often the case that not every developer in the team has the same knowledge. Especially when it comes to knowledge about a platform. In the Panorama project (https://panorama-research.org/) we faced that issue when people tried to contribute to an Eclipse based application, without knowing about the Eclipse Platform.

Experience level:

Intermediate

Web & Desktop Tools & IDEs

Automate Code Changes - Bringing OpenRewrite to the IDE

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

This session introduces the OpenRewrite platform for automated source code refactorings and walks the audience through our efforts to integrate this platform into Eclipse and Visual Studio Code as part of the open-source Spring Tools.

Experience level:

Intermediate

Web & Desktop Tools & IDEs

Language Recognizer Tool (ANTLR4) Behind the Language Support for IDEs

Azat Satklichov (CA Technologies)

Before starting to develop any language applications you need to know the grammar of that language and have a language-recognizer tool which understands that language and generates the parsers using pre-defined language grammars. So main focus of this demonstration is about ANTLR4 tool. ANTLR is widely used to write interpreters and compilers for new languages, or to build tools and frameworks, or to analyze logs.

Experience level:

Beginner

Web & Desktop Tools & IDEs

Run your favorite IDE on Kubernetes

Ilya Buziuk (Red Hat, Inc.)

David Kwon (Red Hat, Inc.)

In this session, you will learn about the cutting-edge version of Eclipse Che - a next-generation container development platform, that allows you to run your favorite IDE on Kubernetes. During the talk, we are going to demo various IDEs powered by Eclipse Che and running on Kubernetes

Experience level:

Beginner

Web & Desktop Tools & IDEs

Glimmer DSL for SWT

Andy Maleh (Lexop Senior Full-Stack Developer)

Glimmer DSL for SWT provides a DSL (Domain Specific Language) for SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) that enables building GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) using the least amount of code possible. It does so by supporting a declarative hierarchical syntax for SWT that visually maps to the way widgets are laid out on the screen. As a result, it significantly improves productivity and decreases the cost of maintainability in desktop application development.

Experience level:

Advanced

Web & Desktop Tools & IDEs