Eclipse India Summit Day 1 Summary
I attended the Eclipse India summit organised by Saltmarch,The Eclipse India Summit happens to be Asia’s 1st and Only Eclipse based 2 Day Conference.
Before digging into the session ,Let me give an small introduction about eclipse.
What is Eclipse ?
Eclipse is a Java IDE
Eclipse is an IDE Framework
Eclipse + JDT = Java IDE
- First class framework for Java
- Language aware editor
- Incremental build
- Integrated debugging
Eclipse + CDT = C/C++ IDE
- First class framework for C/C++
- Language aware editor
- Refactoring, search
Eclipse + PHP = PHP IDE
Eclipse + JDT + CDT + PHP = Java, C/C++, PHP IDE
Eclipse is a Tools Framework
Tools extend the Eclipse platform using plug-ins
Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT)
Eclipse Communications Framework (ECF)
Web Tools Project (WTP)
Eclipse Modelling Framework (EMF)
Graphical Editing Framework (GEF)
Test and Performance Tooling Project (TPTP
Eclipse is a Application Framework
Remove the IDE elements, Java language support, team development support, … and you’re left with a pretty comprehensive general application framework
- Support for multiple platforms Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, UNIX, embedded
- Rich widget set, graphics
- Native-OS integration (drag and drop, OLE/XPCOM integration)
- A platform for rich clients
Eclipse is all these things
A Java IDE
An IDE Framework
A Tools Framework
An Application Framework
An Open Source Enabler
A community
An eco-system
A foundation
Coming back to the event , Chancery Pavilion was the venue for the event ,When i just entered the Venue
i was astonished to See Microsoft as one of the Platinum Sponsors the Event, the attendance for the event was around 400 ,such a large gathering of eclipse enthusiasts Wow.
Starting Note
Interoperability: Opening Up Opportunities in a World of Choice and a Time of Change By Ramkumar Kothandaraman
Ramkumar Kothandaraman works as Director for Microsoft Technology Center at Microsoft,Bangalore
He talked about the following things
- Microsoft Approach towards Interoperability
- PHP Support in windows
- PHP support in Cloud
- Eclipse tools for Silverlight
- JAVA API to support OpenXML
Microsoft Approach towards Interoperability
Explained Various aspects of interoperability
PHP Support in windows
Microsoft has integrated PHP in its Stack with IIS
- supports FAST CGI
- Caching[Feature of IIS server which was available ]
One Platform ,One Installer
visit microsoft.com/web to get the Web Plaform Installer
Web Platform Installer configures IIS , downloads PHP ,also choices of Drupal ,wordpress etc etc …
Eclipse Tools for Silverlight
You can hear the talk
There were three simultaneous tracks running at the same time,
I attended the Ilya Shinkarenko ’s Plugin development Tips and Tricks Workshop ,It was one of the good sessions
It talked about the service based approach , usage of plugin spy ,and decoupling of UI plugins,Data Binding and some patterns and it was accompanied with the code walk -throughs
You can download the code from Shinkareko’s website
http://shinkarenko.org/training/pm/workshop.shinkarenko.final.zip
Fixing JSE/JEE Performance Problems the Eclipse Way by Richard Davies
It was post lunch session , Rich Daves from Embarcader Systems
He was talking about a memory profiling tool called JOptimiser ,it Helps in identifying memory leakages ,and provides layer by layer memory footprints
Eclipse 3.5 PDE Target Platform Story by Ankur Sharma
Ankur Sharma is one of the commiters inn eclipse PDE and works in IBM ,Bangalore
He Says “Take benefit of Eclipse 3.5 and still develop for 3.4″
Eclipse Modeling Framework By Chethan Kumar,Annamalai
This was one of the most interactive session of the day one ,
They introduced modeling (EMF) , had a walk through of the code and explained the benefits and features it provides
I missed the early part but managed to get the last bits
They had planned to give as demo on teneo ,but it didnt happen as the run out of time
visit our flickr stream for some photos of the event
These are links of fellow bloggers who have blogged about eclipse india summit
http://eclipse-info.blogspot.com/
http://eclipseo.blogspot.com/2009/07/day-1-eclipse-india-summit-2009.html
http://tekunik.blogspot.com/2009/07/eclipse-india-summit-2009.html
