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Discover the potential of the E4 runtime in enhancing user interfaces through extensive customization options. The E4 architecture, featuring an application model and its renderers, empowers developers to modify the visual representation of any UI component.

During this presentation we will explore the various levels of UI customization used during an advanced UI consulting project for one of our demanding customer. Using practical examples with their valuable tips we will explain different topics :

Experience level:

Intermediate

Tools & IDEs

Eclipse Theia - News from the Next Gen Tools Platform

Thomas Mäder (Castle Ridge Software)

Jonas Helming (EclipseSource)

Eclipse Theia is the next generation platform for building IDEs and tools at Eclipse. Join this talk to get a comprehensive update about news and noteworthy from the project, directly from the project leads! Theia provides you with an open and flexible platform to build tools and IDEs running on a web technology stack and deployed either in the cloud or on the desktop. As one of the most active projects at Eclipse, we have many news to share, e.g.

New end user features, such as dynamic tab handling and support for notebook editors

Experience level:

Beginner

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Automating Documentation with Eclipse RCPTT

Matthias Mailänder (Lablicate GmbH)

RCP Testing Tool (RCPTT) is a project for GUI testing automation of Eclipse-based applications. Setting up UI integration tests has some upfront costs, but pays off by spotting regressions early on. When already going through the application widget by widget, why not take some screenshots and generate a user manual that is guaranteed to be always up-to-date?

Experience level:

Beginner

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Hitchhiker’s guide to Eclipse PDE project development in VSCode

Mattia Dal Ben (Eurotech)

In this talk we’ll cover how we, in the Eclipse Kura team (an Eclipse PDE-based project), switched from an Eclipse IDE-only development environment to supporting a more diverse set of tools and popular editors such as VSCode, Neovim and Emacs. The goal of this talk is to provide the audience with the necessary instruments and know-how to follow our footstep and showcase the benefits (and limitations) of this kind of setup.

Experience level:

Beginner

Tools & IDEs

Embracing Remote Development for Local IDEs

Mark Sujew (TypeFox GmbH)

Working with remote systems has become an integral part of a software engineer's toolkit. For decades, IDEs have allowed us to start services on remote machines and connect to them for debugging - especially important now as cloud clusters and microservices have gained prominence. But, what if we could not only run our code remotely but also develop it on remote systems?

Experience level:

Beginner

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E4 UI Testing: A Paradigm Shift

Olivier Prouvost (OPCoach)

Testing user interfaces (UI) is always a challenging task, commonly relegated to the last phases of application development and hurriedly executed. However, it is now possible to overcome this challenge by developing UI plugins using the E4 POJOs (seamlessly integrating with existing Eclipse 3 plugins). The E4 architecture enables us to liberate ourselves from dependencies on high level Eclipse RCP stacks, unlocking new opportunities for testing UI POJOs together directly during the integration test phase.

Experience level:

Intermediate

Tools & IDEs

What's new in PDE - From Manifest-First to Code-First

Christoph Laeubrich (Self-employed)

Jürgen Albert (Data In Motion Consulting GmbH)

Mike Rumpf (Scheidt & Bachmann System Technik GmbH)

In the past PDE was exclusivly focused on the so called manifest-first aproach, that is you maintain your osgi-manifest by hand, but with the 2023-06 release PDE now supports a new code-first aproach where the manifest is generated automatically, but still retains the tools you know and allows even a mixed aproach for easy migration (no "big-bang" required).

Experience level:

Beginner

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Diagram Editors Boosted: Collaborative, Testable and Accessible diagrams with Eclipse GLSP

Philip Langer (EclipseSource)

Dominik Bork (TU Wien)

Do plain old diagram editors that are cumbersome to develop, hard to test and clumsy to use put you off? Us too! With Eclipse GLSP, however, such editors belong to the past. Join us for a talk on the recent innovations from the community in the Eclipse GLSP universe and learn how to build modern web-based diagram editors for your tools with ease!

Alongside other great additions to the recent GLSP 2.0 release, we will in particular explore three key areas of innovation:

Experience level:

Beginner

Tools & IDEs

Make Eclipse Java debugger as your friend

Suby S Surendran (IBM)

Eclipse IDE is one of the most well-liked IDEs for developers working across many domains and languages, with more than two decades of releases, a large developer community, and a variety of plug-ins & extensions.It is especially well-liked in the Java ecosystem because it offers a stable environment for creating, executing, and debugging applications.

Experience level:

Beginner

Tools & IDEs

Inside Tycho 4 - build bundles better

Christoph Laeubrich (Self-employed)

Gilles Iachelini (Mtrail GmbH Switzerland)

The Tycho Maven Plugin is probably the most common choice to build Eclipse plug-ins with Maven and its corresponding PDE artifacts like Features, p2 sites and RCP products including Eclipse IDE itself. Tycho 4 brings a lot of improvements and new features!

Experience level:

Beginner

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