Component-Based Development 2004-2005 Marco Scotto (
[email protected]) Component-Based Development Outline ¾Introduction to Eclipse • Plug-in Architecture •Platform •JDT •PDE ¾HelloWorld Example ¾PDE Views Component-Based Development 2 Eclipse Project Aims ¾ Provide open platform for application development tools • Run on a wide range of operating systems • GUI and non-GUI ¾ Language-neutral • Permit unrestricted content types • HTML, Java, C, JSP, EJB, XML, GIF, … ¾ Facilitate seamless tool integration • At UI and deeper • Add new tools to existing installed products ¾ Attract community of tool developers • Including independent software vendors (ISVs) • Capitalize on popularity of Java for writing tools Component-Based Development 3 Eclipse Overview Another Eclipse Platform Tool Java Workbench Help Development Tools JFace (JDT) SWT Team Your Tool Plug-in Workspace Development Debug Environment (PDE) Their Platform Runtime Tool Eclipse Project Component-Based Development 4 Eclipse Origins ¾ Eclipse created by OTI and IBM teams responsible for IDE products • IBM VisualAge/Smalltalk (Smalltalk IDE) • IBM VisualAge/Java (Java IDE) • IBM VisualAge/Micro Edition (Java IDE) ¾ Initially staffed with 40 full-time developers ¾ Geographically dispersed development teams • OTI Ottawa, OTI Minneapolis, OTI Zurich, IBM Toronto, OTI Raleigh, IBM RTP, IBM St. Nazaire (France) ¾ Effort transitioned into open source project • IBM donated initial Eclipse code base Platform, JDT, PDE Component-Based Development 5 Brief History of Eclipse 1999 April