Enhancing Developer Productivity using Eclipse Presented by Tom

Enhancing Developer Productivity using Eclipse Presented by: Tom Sausner

Goals • To give those unfamiliar with eclipse a view on what it is and how it works. • Discuss Java development workflow from an eclipse perspective. • Show and Tell: demonstration projects • Not an Eclipse vs. ? Shootout. • Interactive

Eclipse Info • • What is Eclipse? Download from www. eclipse. org Brief History Currently migrating from CPL to EPL

Eclipse Architecture •

The Workbench • Perspectives – Perspectives usually organized around tasks. • Perspectives contain – Editors – Views • Editors are associated with file types • Main purpose of views is to support editors and provide alternate navigation

Project Creation • Project – Project natures indicate personality (e. g. Java, HTML, etc. ) – Projects contain resources (files and directories) • Project types Simple, Java, PDE, many others. • Each project maps to one directory • Importing - file system, source repository. • Working Sets

Java Development Toolkit • Package Explorer – Label decorations – Project Preferences • Common views – Outline View • Outline popup. – Tasks, Bookmarks and Fast Views • Searching code

Eclipse Preferences • Java -> Code Style, suffix List, code format • Java->Editor->Templates • Java->Build. Path • Export and Import preferences

JDT II • Navigation – between editor window ( tabs) – Last edit location ctrl-Q – Reordering View and Editor Tabs • • • Code Complete, Templates Code Assist - CTRL-Space Method Parameter hints - CTRL-Shift-Space Quick Fix Surrounding code in a block Organize imports

JDT - Popup Menu • Declaration • References • Source – format, – getters/setters – block commands • Refactoring – rename, move, change method signature

Run/Debug • • Applications, Applets, and JUnit tests Run parameters, Run Dialog Debugging Perspective Run Code Snippets in Scrapbook

Eclipse and Ant • Ant View - sensitive to ant syntax • Ant Support - create and run ant files – Run->External Tools – Execute ant targets from the outline view • Ant output is displayed in the console view.

CVS/SVN Repository Exploring • CVS and Subversion plug-ins available • Repository browsing • Project creation, branching and version control • Compare branches, look at history • Tagging

Team Synchronizing • Update – Repository -> your local copy • Commit – your changes -> Repository • Automatic merge, prompt for manual help • Difference view. • Overrides

Plug-ins • Except for the Platform Core, all Eclipse functionality is implemented as plug-ins • Plug-ins catalog – eclipse-plugins. 2 y. net/eclipse/plugins. jsp • Installation – Drag-N-Drop – Help->Software Updates…->Find and Install. • Some plug-ins are very version sensitive.

Tomcat Plug-in Demo • Setup - tell the plug-in where tomcat is installed. • Stop and Start tomcat from w/in eclipse. • Create and debug a simple jsp page. • Create and debug a simple servelet • http: //www. sysdeo. com/eclipse/tomcat. Pl ugin. html

Hibernate/DB Plug-in demo • • Demonstrate ORM in eclipse Demo Database Plug-in Edit xml files with XMLBuddy. Using Ant from Eclipse

Some Eclipse Sub-Projects • Test and Performance Tools Platform – Frameworks for tool vendors • Web Tools Platform – J 2 EE friendly editors & wizards • Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) – Web or PDF based reports.

My Favorites Eclipse Shortcuts • Ctrl-shift-o… fixes up imports • Ctrl - space … invokes code completion & code templates • Pop-up menu for references, declarations, and refactoring. • Outline view • Quick Fix ctrl-1

Questions • www. eclipse. org • http: //eclipseplugins. 2 y. net/eclipse/plugins. jsp • Rss - http: //eclipseplugins. 2 y. net/eclipse/rss_info. jsp • http: //www. eclipseplugincentral. com/We b_Links+main. html