Modern Software Development: Coding with Eclipse

Thu, Nov 12 6:00pm

Presentation Overview:

In the last eight years Eclipse has not only become the leading IDE for Java developers, but has also very quickly become a platform for providing additional capabilities to developers. This talk will take a whirlwind tour through different parts of Eclipse: from day-to-day productivity features to built-in functionality like Cheat Sheets which help you figure out how to use some of the powerful features.

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Beyond the ability of building plugins into the IDE, this talk covers Eclipse's Rich Client Platform (RCP), allowing developers to easily build desktop applications to take advantage of pre-built components for managing preferences and jobs, as well as the delivering functionality to your desktop applications using plugins with self-updating capabilities. After this you will see how some of these rich desktop applications can then be very easily re-deployed to run on a server and have a web-interface using the re-implementation of the interfaces provided by the Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP).

This talk will then be wrapped up by showing some of the innovative non-traditional tools built by the Eclipse community, ranging from tools designed to reduce developers information-overload to ones aimed at providing for easier development of mobile and rich web based applications.

Presenter Bio:

Vineet is the Founder (President & CTO) of Architexa (www.architexa.com), which is building a suite designed to help software developers understand, document, and collaborate about important aspects of their code. Vineet is passionate about building tools to help improve developer productivity, and has been doing so since 1999 when building tools at Microsoft. He has more recently tackled these problems as part of his PhD work at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), which along with work done in collaboration with Accenture Research Labs has formed the core of Architexa.

Vineet has been speaking at EclipseCon regularly since 2007, and has been building tools on Eclipse since 2003. Beyond Eclipse technologies such as RCP, JDT, RAP, GEF and GMF, he has been doing work with the latest Java standards: JAX-RS (Rest support) and JPA (ORM support).