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Course: |
Introduction to Eclipse Plug-In Development |
Lecturer: |
Mike McCullough, Director of Professional Services, Embedded Planet |
Date: |
Wednesdays, 6:00 - 9:00 PM, March 14, 21, 28 and April 11 |
Location: |
Holiday Inn Select, 15 Middlessex Canal Park Road, Woburn, MA |
Course Summary:
The course is focused on the design and development of application plug-ins for the Eclipse environment. The first part of the course focuses on acquiring an understanding of the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment (PDE), highlighting areas of concern for application plug-in development. The latter part covers additional aspects of productizing, publishing, branding and distributing Eclipse application plug-ins.
Who Should Attend:
The course is designed for real-time engineers who are building application plug-ins for the Eclipse framework. It is also targeted at experienced developers requiring a refresher course on Eclipse development. This course will clearly demonstrate both the strengths and weaknesses of the Eclipse framework when used in developing application plug-ins.
Course Objectives:
To understand the terminology and use of the Eclipse framework and its use with multiple Operating Systems
To understand the directory structure of Eclipse and how to develop within Eclipse
To understand the usage of the PDE and Debugging Plug-ins
To understand how to initialize Plug-ins in the Eclipse environment
Course Schedule Day 1
Introduction
Terms
A Brief History of Eclipse
Eclipse Versioning
CDL versus GNU and the GPL
Eclipse and the CDT
Eclipse-based IDEs
XML
Eclipse Basics
The Eclipse Workbench
Standard Workbench Plug-Ins
The Eclipse Workspace
Eclipse Projects
Plug-ins, Perspectives and Features
Views and Editors
Creating Application Projects in Eclipse
The Debug Perspective
Using Plug-ins
The PDE
The Eclipse Directory Structure
Plug-in Projects
Using the Plug-in Wizard
Plug-in Application Development
Creating a new Plug-in from Scratch
Reusing Existing Plug-Ins
Debugging Plug-Ins
Debugging Configurations
Launching the Runtime Workspace
Eclipse Debugging
Course Schedule Day 2
The Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT)
SWT Basics
The SWT Examples
Layout Management
Resource Management
List-Oriented Viewers
Text Viewers
Actions
IAction and IActionDelegate
Workbench Actions
Object, View and Editor Actions
Resource Management
List-Oriented Viewers
Text Viewers
Views
The View Part
View Actions
Saving State
Resource Management
List-Oriented Viewers
Text Viewers
Course Schedule Day 3
Editors
The Editor Part
Editing and the Editing Lifecycle
Multi-page Editors
Editor Actions
Plug-In Design Considerations
The Great Editor Debate
Views versus Editors
The Inside or Outside Choice
String Manipulations in Java
Networking in Eclipse
Dialogs and Wizards
Providing Help in Plug-ins
Productizing the Plug-in
Supporting Multiple OSes
Default Perspectives
Branding
Features
Web-based Updates
Building with Ant
Installation Methods
Course Schedule Day 4
Eclipse Plug-In Distribution
Distribution Models
Delivering the plugin.jar file
Delivering Source Code versus Object Code
Delivering Source Code Development Projects
Delivering Java products
Delivering Multiple Plug-Ins
Advanced Plug-In Development
Resource Change Tracking
Extension Points
Communicating with Other Plug-Ins
Communicating with the Workbench
Preference Pages and the Preference API
Properties in the Properties Dialog
Properties in the Properties View
Properties as Preference Pages
Eclipse Futures
The Graphical Revolution
The Monitoring Revolution
The Real-Time Evolution
The Callisto Combined Release
Lecturer:
Mike McCullough is Director of Professional Services for Embedded Planet. Mike has a BS in Computer Engineering and an MS in Systems Engineering from Boston University. A 20-year electronics veteran, he has held various positions at Wind River Systems, Lockheed Sanders, Stratus Computer and Apollo Computer. Embedded Planet is a provider of embedded systems hardware, Eclipse-based software development tools, training and consulting services for the embedded systems market.
Decision/Cancel Date for this course is Monday, March 5, 2007
Course Fee Schedule:
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IEEE MEMBERS $390 |
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NON-MEMBERS $430 |
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