Testing the Eclipse StatusLineManager
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Considerations about Agile to the Better Software 2011
What is “Agile”? What are the agile methods? What do they promise? Most of the readers surely know! They are a set of methods that helps to organize the work in a better way and, consequently, increase the productivity. But, sometimes, even though we strictly follow their rules, we can’t get to the goals that we hope to achieve. Why? […]
CDO – Connected Data Objects
Introduzione a CDO Questo framework, che è un componente del progetto EMF, permette la condivisione di un modello EMF. Se con Teneo quindi possiamo fare in modo che ciascun client possa accedere ad un database (realizzando un client/server a due livelli), con CDO abbiamo la possibilità che i vari client accedano ad un server che mette loro a disposizione la medesima istanza, condivisa, del modello EMF. In questo tutorial vedremo come: installare CDO creare un server CDO creare un client CDO Per una documentazione dettagliata su CDO potete consultare il seguente link http://www.eclipse.org/cdo/documentation/ Mentre qui potete scaricare le varie versioni [...]
Looking forward to EclipseCon Europe 2011
This year old Eclispe Summit Europe changes his name to EclispeCon Europe and celebrates the 10th birthday of the Eclipse project. The event will kick off a series of birthday parties around the world to celebrate the important milestone. One of the main news of this year is that Java 7 Summit will be a co-located event at EclipseCon Europe. The Summit will feature expert speakers from Oracle and the growing OpenJDK community. Keynotes Hardware and Robotic are other big new entries of this edition. Since James Gosling moved from Google to this new world, we all are waiting for [...]
Launch checking
In case you get some error during launch, it is reccomended to check that the launch itself contains all needed plugins. To do this, click Run -> Run Configurations... select the launch go to Configuration tab and make sure that Clear the configuration area before launching flag be active then go to Plug-ins tab and verify that all dependences are resolved, with button Validate Plug-ins if you get a popup with message "No problems were detected." you are done, otherwise, if some dependence is missing, press button "Add Required Plug-ins", then Apply. Back to index
Eclipse EMF: updating the Model
Now we will see how to handle a Model update. Let's say we want to add the "surname" attribute to Author entity. Open the model diagram (Library.ecorediag) and add the new attribute still of EString type Save the changes (Ctrl-S), re-open file Library.genmodel, and re-generate the sources for the following plug-ins: Model, Edit and Editor (remember to click on each of the first three context-menu items) Re-launch the application (doing a Clean and checking the launch, in case of errors) If you check the database now, you'll find that table "author" has a new "surname" field, which the application [...]
Clean workspace
In case of errors in the workspace, it could be useful to make a Refresh and a Clean operation. Here you'll find how: Refresh Let's select all plug-ins inside the workspace, right-click Refresh on the context menu. Clean Click the menu item Project => Clean... Back to index
EMF Development
This section was designed with the aim to be a practical path for learning how to quickly develop Eclipse RCP application based on EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework) (work is in progress ...) First steps How to create an RCP application From Model to Persistence Eclipse EMF: Designing the Model Eclipse EMF: a CRUD at no-cost Teneo Setup for Eclipse 4.2 ÔÇô Juno Eclipse EMF: an out-of-the-box CRUD for a database Eclipse EMF: updating the Model CDO - Connected Data Objects Visual Development WindowBuilder: installing and EMF databinding WindowBuilder: advanced databinding with CDO Single Sourcing with Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) Single [...]
Eclipse-IT 2011 The Sixth Workshop of the Italian Eclipse Community
The sixth Workshop of the Italian Eclipse Community, Eclipse-IT 2011, will take place in Milan, on September 22-23, at University of Milano Bicocca. Among the most important speakers Ralph Mueller, Director of Eclipse Foundation. RCP Vision will hold the following talks: Extending the BPEL Designer with Xtext based editors Sviluppo rapido di applicazioni Eclipse RCP basate su EMF
How to create an RCP application
Select File -> New -> Other... and choose Plug-in Project, then Next. In Project name field let's give a name to our project, e.g. it.rcpvision.rcptutorial.application leave other options unchanged and press Next. At the next step let's make sure that Would you like to create a rich client application? flag is selected and press Next. At next wizard step let's select the Hello RCP Template, then Next and give a name to our application, e.g. Library Manager and press Finish. At the next popup we can select Remember my decision and press No (Java perspective is more than enough for [...]