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Eclipse: Empowering the universal platform

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The Eclipse community is constantly working on high level projects that extend Eclipse's functionality. This technical briefing will take a deep dive into some of the most important, feature rich projects that the Eclipse community is developing. From multi-language support to plug-in development, if you thought Eclipse was only great for Java™ development, come and see what it is capable of now.


Audience

Practitioners and students


Duration

Half day


Description

If you thought Eclipse was used as merely a Java development environment, then this technical briefing will expand your definition. Eclipse has evolved into a universal platform for anything and everything related to software development and beyond. You now have the ability to do things like geographically distributed collaboration, rich client development, and even application runtime analysis all within Eclipse.

Hear discussions on the following topics:

  • Introduction to the Eclipse community and an overview of Eclipse projects
  • Multi-language support in Eclipse
  • Web tools, including Web services and Java EE applications
  • Testing features of the test and performance tools platform project
  • The collaboration capabilities of the Eclipse collaboration framework
  • How to build plug-ins using the plug-in development environment
  • How to build rich clients using the rich client platform
  • Next steps in learning more about Eclipse and IBM's Eclipse-based products

Tools and products reviewed during this briefing include:

  • Eclipse
  • C/C++ development tools
  • Test and performance tools platform
  • Web tools platform
  • Eclipse communication framework
  • Plug-in development environment
  • Rich client platform

You'll also see demos that illustrate the functionality of selected Eclipse projects.


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