News in Eclipse 4.4 and how to contribute to the Eclipse Open Source project.

1. Eclipse platform news and how
to contribute to the project

2. Eclipse
4.4
news
Contributing
to
the
project
Awesome
future
developments

3. Lars Vogel
Eclipse committerEclipse committer
(Platform, e4)(Platform, e4)
vogella GmbH CEO and developervogella GmbH CEO and developer
Hendrik Still
Eclipse contributorEclipse contributor
Student and vogella GmbH developerStudent and vogella GmbH developer

4. vogella GmbH
Kunden Entwicklung, Projektreviews
und Training im Bereich Eclipse
und Android
Was machen wir um Geld zu
verdienen?

5. What is the Eclipse platform project?
Platform

7. What is the Eclipse platform project?
UI toolkit,
Services,
Runtime,
IDE configuration,etc

8. Most important
change in Eclipse 4.4

9. Java 8 support

10. OK, this was done by the JDT
developers, but we
also did
something in Eclipse 4.4...

11. Famous Spring Developer Oliver Gierke
I don't use Eclipse 4.x
because it is ugly

12. A beautiful UI
Toolbar can be hidden
QuickAccess can be hidden
PerspectiveSwitcher can be
hidden
Less whitespace usage
Line numbers
DnD color
Improve default styling (colors)
New Splashscreen and logo
Removed annoying splash
screen message
Major improvements in CSS
New icon set

13. Dark theme

14. Split editor
Most requested feature since
2002. See Bug 8009 for hate
comments

15. Filter box in installing
updates in not dead slow
anymore....

16. In general we improved interactive
performance

17. Build the Eclipse IDE
git clone -b master --recursive
git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/platform/ec
lipse.platform.releng.aggregator.git
# run the build
mvn clean verify
See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=372792 for the involved work

18. Clean-up of the old code basis

19. We would like to be less
scary for developers
I would
like
to help

21. Other reasons to contribute
Image (CC BY 2.0)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dumfstar/8553474140/
Image (CC BY 2.0)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/2606362543
Learn cool new things
Your business depends on new
functions

22. Open a Bug
https://bugs.eclipse.org/

23. Submit Code!!!

24. Two options

25. Realworld Process
Bugzilla Gerrit
Review
Official
Git
Repository

26. Let's start !

27. You need a
CLA
http://www.eclipse.org/legal/CLA.php

28. Let's start !

29. Demo

30. To read about it
http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/EclipsePlatformDevelopment/article.html Eclipse IDE Contributions
Soon to be published,
watch @vogella or
http://blog.vogella.com

31. https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/eclipse.platform/who
Currently > 50 % of the changes are
done by 6 people

32. The future looks bright
SWT on OpenGL
SWT on JavaFX
SWT GTK3 running the browser
http://akurtakov.blogspot.de/2013/09/full-featured-ide-in-your-browser-and.html
Full screen Eclipse
.....
Much, much more code clean-up

33. New tail code completion
Bachlor Work from Nice Höss at
www.fhv.at

34. Parallel processing in Jobs
With the help of our Google friends
First measurements show that search might be 5-
10x faster
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?
id=432049

35. The future looks brighter
Flux from Martin Lippert – at 14:30

36. To close

37. Contributing was hard in the
past. We are sorry, the fix
is almost done...

38. Where to go from here
http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/EclipsePlatformDevelopment/article.html Eclipse IDE Contributions
http://www.vogella.com/articles/Git/article.html Git tutorial
http://www.vogella.com/articles/Gerrit/article.html Gerrit tutorial
http://www.vogella.com/articles/EGit/article.html EGit tutorial
http://wiki.eclipse.org/CBI Eclipse IDE CBI Build
http://www.vogella.com/articles/EclipseTycho/article.html EclipseTycho tutorial
http://www.voclipse.com/ voclipse (custom) IDE build

39. Thank you
For further questions:
lars.vogel@vogella.com &
hendrik.still@vogella.com
http://www.vogella.com