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Built on the open-source Eclipse platform, BIRT is a powerful reporting system that provides an end-to-end solution from creating and deploying reports to integrating report capabilities in enterprise applications.

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This book also includes extensive examples of how to use the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment to build plug-ins to extend the features of the BIRT framework. The source code for these examples is available for download at www. A Field Guide, Third Edition, is the authoritative guide to using BIRT Report Designer, the graphical tool that enables users of all levels to build reports, from simple to complex, without programming.

Using Scripting in a Report Design. Model-driven software development MDSD is not just about generating code. Several additional challenges have to be mastered. In this article we show how to tackle all these challenges, based on a collection of open source tools: We believe that this tool chain provides a proven and stable stack for making MDSD a practical reality. Virtual Tables and Trees allow developers to quickly create Tables and Trees with large amounts of data and populate them efficiently.

This book gives a detailed introduction into the Eclipse platform and covers all relevant aspects of Eclipse RCP development. Every topic in this book has a content section in which the topic is explained and afterwards you have several exercises to practice your learning. You will be guided through all relevant aspects of Eclipse 4 development using an comprehensive example which you continue to extend in the exercises.

You will learn about the new programming concepts of Eclipse 4, e. This book requires a working knowledge of Java and assumes that you are familiar in using the Eclipse IDE for standard Java development. Graphical Editing Framework GEF provides a powerful foundation for creating editors for visual editing of arbitrary models.

Its effectiveness lies in a modular build, fitting use of design patterns, and decoupling of components that comprise a full, working editor. To a newcomer, the sheer number and variety of concepts and techniques present in GEF may feel intimidating. However, once learned and correctly used, they help to develop highly scalable and easy to maintain software.

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This article aims to provide a gentle yet comprehensive introduction to GEF. It describes a shape diagram editor - a small, fully functional test case of core concepts. The Eclipse Platform is designed for building applications, integrated development environments IDEs and arbitrary tools. This paper is a general technical introduction to the Eclipse Platform. Part I presents a technical overview of its architecture.

Part II is a case study of how the Eclipse Platform was used to build a full-featured Java development environment. The selection service provided by the Eclipse workbench allows efficient linking of different parts within the workbench window. Knowing and using the existing selection mechanisms gives your plug-ins a clean design, smoothly integrates them into the workbench and opens them for future extensions. Anyone who supports a programming language in an Eclipse-based IDE will be asked sooner or later to offer automated refactorings - similar to what is provided by the Java Development Tools JDT.

Since the release of Eclipse 3. But how is this API used? This tutorial walks you through the process of creating a simple database web application using Eclipse WTP, Tomcat, and the Derby database engine. Translations for the Eclipse Project and several top-level projects are contributed to the Eclipse Foundation in every major release of Eclipse.

This article provides step-by-step instructions describing what is available, where to download them, how to install them, and how to launch Eclipse in different languages. This new edition of Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins is the definitive, start-to-finish guide to building commercial-quality Eclipse plug-ins, with an emphasis on adding the sophistication and polish that paying customers demand.

The book provides both a quick introduction to using Eclipse for new users and a reference for experienced Eclipse users wishing to expand their knowledge and improve the quality of their Eclipse-based products. This article demonstrates how to use the TPTP Profiling tool to profile a Java application for identifying execution related hot spots. It shows how to start the profiling session, use the various TPTP views to analyze the data, identify methods with high execution time then jump to the source code to fix the performance problem.

In this article, you will learn how to use the tabbed properties view to create an enhanced user interface for the properties view. Handling a progress monitor instance is deceptively simple. It seems to be straightforward but it is easy to make a mistake when using them. And, depending on numerous factors such as the underlying implementation, how it is displayed, the result can range from completely ok, mildly confusing or outright silliness.

In this article we lay down a few ground rules that will help anyone use progress monitors in a way that will work with the explicit and implicit contract of IProgressMonitor. Also, understanding the usage side makes it easier to understand how to implement a monitor. Spice up your rich client with rich user experience using Eclipse Forms. Written as a thin layer on top of SWT, Eclipse Forms allow you to achieve the Web look in your desktop applications without using the embedded browser.

This allows you to retain full control of the widgets in the UI and to maintain portability across all operating systems Eclipse already runs on. This article will take you from baby steps to advanced topics of the rich user interface experience of Eclipse Forms. Graphical Modeling Framework GMF is a new Eclipse project with the potential to become a keystone framework for the rapid development of standardized Eclipse graphical modeling editors. GMF is divided in two main components: Architects and developers involved in the development of graphical editors or of plug-ins integrating both EMF and GEF technologies should consider building their editors against the GMF Runtime component.

This article is designed to help understand the benefits of the GMF Runtime by presenting its various value-added features. The topic of technical publishing is relatively new to the world of Eclipse. One can make the argument that technical publishing is just another collaborative development process involving several people with different backgrounds and skills. This article will show that the Eclipse platform is a viable platform for technical publishing by discussing how to write documents such as an article or a book within Eclipse.

In fact, this article was written using Eclipse. Written in a concise and friendly style, packed with tips and a practical project, this book will instruct you on using PHPEclipse to make your PHP application development more efficient, and cut development time. This article describes how the Eclipse 3. The goal is to teach you about important classes in the workbench, and how they interact. A familiarity with the basic workbench APIs for views, editors, action sets, and so forth is assumed. Congratulations on taking the plunge and writing an open source plug-in for the Eclipse platform.

This article is an introduction to SourceForge for the Eclipse developer. You will learn the features available to the SourceForge. Eclipse is more than a state-of-the-art IDE: This article guides you through an example where an EMF model is created without serialization and the serialization is done with the framework from the web tools plug-in org. This practical pocket guide gets you up to speed quickly with Eclipse.

It covers basic concepts, including Views and editors, as well as features that are not commonly understood, such as Perspectives and Launch Configurations. You'll learn how to write and debug your Java code--and how to integrate that code with tools such as Ant and JUnit. You'll also get a toolbox full of tips and tricks to handle common--and sometimes unexpected--tasks that you'll run across in your Java development cycle.

This tutorial shows how to extend the Visual Editor to support a custom widget. Eclipse offers the possibility to build plug-ins automatically outside the Eclipse IDE, which is called "headless build". Eclipse itself is built headless and since Eclipse is an assembly of plug-ins, this feature is also available for any other plug-in.

Although the set up of automatic building and testing requires only a couple of files, it can be tedious work to do nonetheless. This article shares the experiences and lessons learned while setting up automatic building and testing for an Open-Source Eclipse plug-in called RDT, Ruby Development Tools. OpenGL is a vendor-neutral, multi-platform standard for creating high-performance 2D and 3D graphics. Hardware and software implementations exist on various operating systems, including Windows, Linux and MacOS. OpenGL may be used to render simple 2D charts or complex 3D games.

A short history and overview of OpenGL is presented, followed by an example application. Starting with release 3. In this article, I explain the new projection infrastructure introduced in the JFace Text framework and show how to extend the XML Editor example provided with Eclipse to allow folding of text. The Eclipse platform is very flexible and extensible, but this flexibility has a serious drawback. In particular, there is no way within the program to ensure user interface consistency between the registered components within the platform.

In his friendly, easy-to-understand style, the bestselling author of Java 2 For Dummies shows developers how to get up to speed fast on this popular Eclipse Java IDE. Eclipse has been one of the best IDEs for unit testing ever since its early days. Das Buch ist auf dem aktuellen Stand von Eclipse 3. This step-by-step guide introduces novices to using all major features of Eclipse 3. It is packed with code-rich, real-world examples that show programmers how to speed up the development of applications by reusing and extending existing Eclipse components.

There are examples of meta-models defined in ECore for modeling objects and relational data. However, not much has been said about how to model rules. This article will define a meta-model in ECore for modeling rule-based systems. We will then use the meta-model to model the solution of a logical problem. Then we will compose some JET templates and generate code from the model, run the generated code through a rule engine and see that the logical problem is correctly solved.

Eclipse is most commonly used as a platform for tools that allow the user to construct or assemble an end product out of development resources. It is less usual to use Eclipse as an administrative tool for monitoring existing runtime systems or applications. This article will describe some of the issues that arise in this case and illustrate possible solutions. It will show you can build an Eclipse perspective dedicated to the monitoring task. Running processes are shown in a dedicated view which always reflects their current state. It assumes that you have already used EMF, or have at least read the articles and references available on the documentation section of the EMF web site.

In typical Developer's Notebook style, you'll learn how to take SWT out for a spin, make it work for you,and turn it upside down, all without wasted words or space. Each lab in this notebook details a specific task; you can read from the first page to the last, look up just what you need to know, and even squeeze this book into your laptop bag as a quick reference when you forget how to create a multi-tabbed view.

Eclipse is a world-class Java integrated development environment IDE and an open source project and community. As in the best-selling first edition, the authors draw on their considerable experience teaching Eclipse and mentoring developers to provide guidance on how to customize Eclipse for increased productivity and efficiency. GEF is a very powerful framework for visually creating and editing models. With a small initial investment, even the relative Eclipse novice can be quickly up and running, building applications with graphical editing capabilities.

To illustrate, this article uses a relational database schema diagram editor with a deliberately simplified underlying model, but with enough bells and whistles to show some of the interesting features of GEF at work. It describes the main portions of the Jobs API and the use of scheduling rules.

It also describes some changes to Eclipse resource management including how the Resources plug-in integrates with the new API. Finally, it describes some new UI functionality that has been added to provide feedback to users about jobs that are run in the background.

In this article we look at how to create branding for your Eclipse-based application. Branding is how you change the high level visual elements of your product. This includes items such as the splash screen, the about dialog, and the program executable. One of the major tasks of adding a new language to an Eclipse-based IDE is debugging support. A debugger needs to start and stop the program being debugged, suspend and resume, single-step, manage breakpoints and watch points, and so on.

This article explains the Eclipse Platform debug framework and steps through a simple, yet illustrative, example of adding debug support for a new language. The Rich Client Platform RCP is an exciting new way to build Java applications that can compete with native applications on any platform. This tutorial is designed to get you started building RCP applications quickly. It has been updated for Eclipse 3.

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Eclipse is a powerful open source platform that gives Java developers a new way to approach development projects. In the Eclipse Cookbook, Java expert Steve Holzner demystifies Eclipse with practical recipes for more than situations you may encounter--from deploying a web application automatically to reverse engineering compiled code, from re-naming all references to a class across multiple packages to initializing the SWT JNI libraries.

O'Reilly's new guide to the technology, Eclipse, provides exactly what you're looking for: This insightful, hands-on book delivers clear and concise coverage, with no fluff, that gets down to business immediately. The book is tightly focused, covering all aspects of Eclipse: Development of practical skills is emphasized with dozens of examples presented throughout the book. The extended image canvas can be used to scroll and zoom large images, and can also be extended to apply other transforms.

They enable you to build nimble and powerful Java GUIs--but this is only the beginning. With Draw2D and the Graphical Editing Framework, you can go beyond static applications and create full-featured editors. And with the Rich Client Platform, you can build customized workbenches whose capabilities far exceed those of traditional interfaces.

It guides you through the process of developing Eclipse-based GUIs and shows how to build applications with features your users will love. The authors share their intimate knowledge of the subject with you in a friendly, readable style. A common problem in the implementation of applications is the implementation of project-specific properties that override workbench-wide preferences on project or file level.

The naive approach is to implement these pages from scratch. However, writing the same code twice is a boring task and leads to increased maintenance efforts. In this article we show how existing preferences pages with or without field editors can be easily converted into pages that can act as both preference and property pages.

We demonstrate this by implementing the abstract class FieldEditorOverlayPage providing the necessary functionality.

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Are you a desktop developer curious about embedded user interfaces? A well-built embedded application is both user and resource friendly. User expectations are high. Resources are very limited Some controls, including Buttons and TreeItems, are able to display an Image directly through the setImage Image method, but any control's paint event allows images to be drawn through the callback's graphic context.

This article shows the correct uses of ImageData and Image, shows how to load images from files, and how to achieve graphic effects such as transparency, alpha blending, animation, scaling, and custom cursors. The Plug-in Development Environment PDE provides a set of tools that assist the developer in every stage of plug-in development from genesis to deployment.

This article chronicles the creation, development, testing, building, and deployment of a simple "Hello World" plug-in using a subset of these tools. This article shows you how to create and publish bundles of plug-ins called features to an update site so that customers can download and install them directly into Eclipse using the Eclipse update manager.

This has many advantages over the low tech way of delivering new or updated plug-ins in a zip file that someone manually unzips into the directory where Eclipse is installed.

You will learn how to write plug-ins that use the classes in the JET package to generate Java source code. As a real-world example, we will create a plug-in that takes user input and generates a Typesafe Enumeration class. The generated source code is based on a JET template that can be distributed with the plug-in, allowing users of the plug-in to customize the generated code by editing the template.

Application developers require the ability to run and debug code in order to test it. This article focuses on the high-level API provided by the Java launching plug-in that tool developers can leverage for the programmatic launching of local Java applications. Drag and drop provides a quick and easy mechanism for users to re-order and transfer data within an application and between applications.

Draw2D provides figures and layout managers which form the graphical layer of a GEF application. While Draw2D can be used for standalone purposes, it is not an editing framework. Most applications will use the GEF plug-in as the editing layer. In this article, we discuss the drag and drop facilities provided by JFace and the Eclipse platform UI. After reading this, you will know how to add drag and drop support to your own Eclipse views, and how that support will interact with the standard views in the Eclipse platform.

Along the way, we'll also discuss that keyboard relative of drag and drop: You'll learn that putting your own custom objects on the clipboard is easy once you've figured out the basics of drag and drop. Native drag and drop provides the ability to drag data from one GUI object to another GUI object, which could potentially be in another application.

This article will provide an in-depth look at GEF's drag and drop functionality and show some simple examples of how to take advantage of this API. Generating source code can save you time in your projects and can reduce the amount of tedious redundant programming. Generating source code can be powerful, but the program that writes the code can quickly become very complex and hard to understand.

One way to reduce complexity and increase readability is to use templates. This article also provides a short reference to the JET syntax. There are many programming languages that allow access and discrete control of system memory. If you are a debug provider for one of these languages, then you probably have a requirement to provide support for debug-time memory inspection and manipulation.

The Eclipse debug framework provides a Memory View, along with an extensible framework to simplify and standardize this task. This article introduces the Memory View and describes how to add your own customized memory support. In this article, we present a fairly extensive example that exercises the JFace and SWT classes needed to implement a table with cell editors for check-boxes, free text and combo-boxes.

We also show how to package and deliver the classes into a stand-alone non-Eclipse Java application. Graphics can be drawn on anything that implements org.

Drawable , which includes org. GC encapsulates all of the drawing API, including how to draw lines and shapes, draw text and images and fill shapes. This article shows how to use a GC to draw onto an Image, or onto a control through its paintEvent callback. The Canvas control, specifically designed for drawing operations, has a number of constructor style bits that allow you to determine when and how painting occurs, and the article shows how to use these.

Eclipse plug-ins embody an architectural pattern for building an application from constituent parts. This article presents an in-depth view of the participant roles and collaborations of this architectural pattern, as they exist in an instance of the Eclipse workbench. The goal is to provide an understanding of plug-ins, and of how plug-in extensions are defined and processed, independently of the mechanics of using the Eclipse workbench to produce plug-ins. Eclipse is in your future! Whether you're an OO Guru, a Java neophyte, or a professional business programmer, there's a good chance that you will be using Eclipse some day soon.

IBM spent millions of dollars on Eclipse before releasing it into the Open Source community, and you can take advantage of all of that development. But how do you get started? Accessibility for disabled users is now a priority in application development as advances in techniques and support within operating systems have now made this possible. This article covers the Eclipse accessibility support, general tips for creating accessible plug-ins, and the types of disabilities that the Eclipse accessibility support assists.

This is all illustrated using an example of making a view accessible. In this article, you will learn how to use the properties view to dynamically modify the properties of a GUI button. This article discusses two central mechanisms that are associated with projects in an Eclipse workspace. The first of these is incremental project builders, which create some built state based on the project contents, and then keep that built state synchronized as the project contents change.

The second is project natures, which define and manage the association between a given project and a particular plug-in or feature. Decorators can be used by plug-ins to convey more information about a resource and other objects displayed in different workbench views. This article, with the help of a simple plug-in example, will illustrate the steps involved in decorating resources, along with some best practice approaches for decorating resources.

Finally, we will discuss performance issues that may arise when enabling decorators, and briefly go over the new lightweight decorators found in Eclipse 2. The ability to launch run or debug code under development is fundamental to an IDE. But because Eclipse is more of a tools platform than a tool itself, Eclipse's launching capabilities depend entirely on the current set of installed plug-ins.

This article describes the API available to build launching plug-ins and works through developing an example launcher using this API. This book provides a thorough guide to using Eclipse features and plug-ins effectively in the context of real-world Java development. Realistic examples demonstrate how to use Eclipse effectively to build, test and debug applications using the tools provided by Eclipse and other third-party open source plugins. The reader will learn how to use plugin tools for using Eclipse in a team environment, including using Ant for more sophisticated build processes and CVS for source control.

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Many tools and user interface elements are interested in processing resource changes as they happen. For example, the task list wants to update new or changed markers, the navigator wants to reflect added and deleted resources, and the Java compiler wants to recompile modified Java files. Such notifications are potentially costly to compute, manage and broadcast. The Eclipse Platform resource model includes a series of mechanisms for efficiently notifying clients of resource changes.

This article outlines these facilities and gives some examples of their use. This article is a roadmap for writing Eclipse plug-ins destined for the international market. We'll begin with a brief review of the motivations and technical challenges of internationalization, followed by step-by-step instructions of how to internationalize your Eclipse plug-in. This article shows you how to validate your internationalized product and prepares you for the types of common problems you can expect during translation testing. It includes an Eclipse plug-in that defines a Properties File Compare view that can help your translation testers find errors more quickly.

Even though preference pages can be simple to program, you can spend a lot of time getting them "just right. Field editors also define some of the behavior for grouping and laying out widgets on a preference page. In the Eclipse Platform plug-in developers define preference pages for their plug-ins for use in the Workbench Preferences Dialog. This article explains when to use a preference and some of the features the Eclipse Platform provides to support preferences. We'll start with a simple example and progressively add functionality.

In the Eclipse Platform a view is typically used to navigate a hierarchy of information, open an editor, or display properties for the active editor. In this article the design and implementation of a view will be examined in detail. You'll learn how to create a simple view based on SWT, and a more advanced view using the JFace viewer hierarchy. We'll also look at ways to achieve good integration with many of the existing features in the workbench, such as the window menu and toolbar, view linking, workbench persistence and action extension.

In the Eclipse Platform a Perspective determines the visible actions and views within a window. Perspectives also go well beyond this by providing mechanisms for task oriented interaction with resources in the Eclipse Platform, multi-tasking and information filtering. In this article the concepts behind perspectives are examined. The process for perspective definition, extension and instantiation will also be covered in detail with coding examples and sample scenarios.

These general ground rules are also recommended practice for plug-ins that must declare API elements of their own. The StyledText widget is a customizable widget that can be used to display and edit text with different colors and font styles. This article presents an overview of the concepts, issues, and rules that you should be aware of when using the StyledText widget. The combination of platforms, display devices and color depth makes providing an easy to use yet powerful and portable color model an interesting challenge.

Managing images in a large graphical application can be a daunting task. This article describes the image management facilities provided by the Eclipse Platform, along with some best practice guidelines to keep in mind when writing your own Eclipse UI plug-ins. Eclipse workbench has a central mechanism for managing resource annotations. They are called markers. In this article, you will learn how to use markers to mark-up resources as well as how to define your own marker types and enhance the Tasks view to handle them in a special way.

The types of problems web application developers face today require the use of a diverse set of tools that operate in many domains. In order to provide flexible tool integration, a tool integration platform must allow tool developers to target different levels or integration based on the desired level of investment, time to market, and specific tool needs.

Each integration level determines how a tool must behave, and what end users can expect as a result. This article defines the different levels of tool integration supported by Eclipse, and gives an overview of how they work. When writing applications, you typically use the standard widgets provided by SWT. On occasion, you will need to create your own custom widgets. For example, you might want to add a new type of widget not provided by the standard widgets, or extend the functionality of an existing widget.

This article explains the different SWT extension strategies and shows you how to use them. The two part series of articles describes the design ideas behind SWT.

SWT is the software component that delivers native widget functionality for the Eclipse platform in an operating system independent manner. Even in an ideal situation, industrial strength cross platform widget libraries are very difficult to write and maintain. This is due to the inherent complexity of widget systems and the many subtle differences between platforms. There are several basic approaches that have helped significantly to reduce the complexity of the problem and deliver high quality libraries. Obfuscating RCP applications can be a challenge for a number of reasons. First, RCP applications are composed of many plugins that must be obfuscated at the same time.

And second, classes often need to be excluded from obfuscation because they're referenced by plugin extensions or extension points. In this article the author takes you on a tour of the process they use to build and obfuscate a large-scale RCP application. When writing applications in SWT, you may need to use layouts to give your windows a specific look.

A layout controls the position and size of children in a Composite. Layout classes are subclasses of the abstract class Layout. This article shows you how to work with standard layouts, and write your own custom layout class. Eclipse is not just for Java-centric development.

The CDT project has been a part of Eclipse for over four years now and has acquired a large and faithful following. There are a large number of embedded tool vendors, for example, that are including the CDT as a standard part of their development tool suite. In fact, RAP can be thought of as RCP for the Web, and that means, among other things, that a large part of the existing code from desktop RCP applications can be used to run them in a browser. This webinar will teach you about the three RAP building blocks - a widget toolkit, the Eclipse plug-in mechanism, and a workbench - and how they compare with RCP.

The widget toolkit is a Java component library similar to SWT. It shields you from differences in the underlying technologies. The plug-in mechanism for Web applications employs the OSGi functionality. The workbench is tightly integrated with the widget toolkit and is similar to the Eclipse platform workbench. This article gives an overview of the capabilities of AJDT 1. But don't be fooled by the term "EJB. Nearly all J2EE applications use a relational database of some kind.

Eclipse provides an integrated set of tools for working with such databases in the Callisto Data Tools Platform.

This tutorial consists of three parts: First, we will take a deep dive into installation and configuration. Manipulating XML data easily and efficiently in Java remains an important problem. Views such as the Package Explorer, Outline, and Resource Navigator show only the elements relevant to the task-at-hand. The editor folds away uninteresting members and automatically unfolds those in the task context.

JUnit integration maintains a suite of tests affected by your current task context. CVS integration makes it possible to synchronize only the tasks' resources. Working with issue trackers like Bugzilla and JIRA becomes a seamless part of task management, and planning is assisted by reports of your task activity. Recalling and sharing task contexts makes picking up where you or someone else left off effortless.

The Abstract Syntax Tree maps plain Java source code in a tree form. This tree is more convenient and reliable to analyse and modify programmatically than text-based source. This article shows how you can use the Abstract Syntax Tree for your own applications. The Java class in this scenario converts between the Celsius and Farenheit temperature scales. The WSDL file in this scenario calculates the area of an rectangle. This tutorial shows how to create a Web service client for a deployed Web service using the Eclipse Web Tools Platform.

This tutorial shows how to run Web services scenarios top down web service, bottom up web service and client generation by way of an Ant task from within Eclipse. In this tutorial you will create a CMP based school schedule Web application. You will learn how to create a Container Managed Entity Bean to store the schedule. A Session bean will be used to interact with the CMP. A JSP and Servlet will serve as the front end. This tutorial will give you a step by step tour of using some the tools for web development.

In this tutorial you will create a school schedule web application using the Eclipse Web Tools Platform. This application allows students to input their courses and create a schedule. This tutorial will introduce you to Session beans and the Web Tools Platform project's support for XDoclet and server tools. This article briefly explains Cactus, its common uses and advantages and then provides a step-by-step tutorial on how to use the Cactus integration provided by the Eclipse Web Tools Platform WTP.

The article assumes that you are familiar with JUnit and the basics of using WTP to build, deploy and run web projects. Generic server is a special server and runtime implementation of base server tooling that can adjust its behaviour by a server type definition file. Server type definition files are XML based meta information files that are introduced using "org. This document describes the different parts of the server definition files. The SSE editors make significant usage of Eclipse frameworks as well as each other.

For end users it means that they behave consistently with each other as well as with other Eclipse editors. We explore the basic functionality along with some of the more advanced ones. Validation can be invoked manually or automatically after every save. The second of a two-book series about business intelligence and reporting technology, Integrating and Extending BIRT introduces programmers to BIRT architecture and the reporting framework.

Built on the Eclipse platform, this exciting technology makes it possible for programmers to build and deploy customized reports using scripting and BIRT APIs. This book describes the key components of BIRT architecture, applications, and engines, including installing, deploying, and troubleshooting the Reporting and Charting engines in an Enterprise Java application-server environment. For developers who wish to incorporate custom business logic in their reports or access data from Java objects, the book describes BIRT's extensive scripting capabilities in JavaScript and Java.

The book provides extensive examples of how to build plug-ins to extend the features of the BIRT framework. MTJ is both an IDE for developers in the Java ME space, as well as an extensible architecture that allows for customization to aid development against any device, configuration, or profile. The MTJ architecture consists of several small plug-ins which can easily be extended or replaced to change the functionality of the IDE. In addition there is a compilation environment for Unified Emulator Interface UEI devices, and the ability to extend the architecture for other environments.

This webinar discusses the current features of the product, exposes our future plans, and highlights the extensible architecture. Eclipse has been enormously popular as a tooling platform. Now, with the emergence of Eclipse on the server, Eclipse clearly has leapt into the runtime world.

So what makes Eclipse capable of adapting to these different environments — what makes Eclipse tick? A detailed tutorial on how to contribute with Commands, Handlers, Menus and Parts to an Eclipse 4 application. Develop applications with some of the commonly used technologies using the project facets in Eclipse 3. In this first of ten episodes, Riyad covers the past, present and future of GMF. In the second episode of the series, Riyad talks to the authors of the VE project in Callisto. Listen in as they talk about the roots of the project and how designing device drivers ties into building a visual editor.

Listen in as they discuss why most people are confused by EMF and how this amazing tool can be leveraged in almost any situation. Find out how this powerful testing and performance platform can improve your Eclipse application and see what they have planned for the future. They also touch on the C work going on for a future release and the. Tune in as Riyad and John discuss the goals and progress the DTP project is making as both a platform for every Eclipse data-enabled projects as well as end user tool for folks needing to explore and manipulate data sources.

In this article, Tobias Widmer sheds light on the services offered by the Eclipse Java Development Tools JDT and the Refactoring Language Toolkit LTK to support automated Java refactorings, explains how these services are used by refactorings to perform searches on the Java workspace, rewrite existing code and provide a rich user-interface to present the results of the refactoring. To demonstrate this combination of Java-specific and language-neutral frameworks, this article presents a simple but working refactoring implementation for an 'Introduce Indirection' refactoring designed to introduce an indirection method for existing method invocations.

Firstly, we'll look at why we have EFS; then, how it's structured. We'll then see an example of using EFS to mount a Zip file with attached source code for comparison and finally summarise what EFS provides and a few things to be aware of when creating your own EFS implementation. When starting off with Eclipse plugin development or rich client platform development, you're more than likely to run into issues like ClassNotFoundException or problems with the Java command line and properties like java.

Most often, these problems arise because many Eclipse developers don't realise the magic that lets Eclipse do its work. Amongst these are the fact that there's actually two processes under the covers, and that each bundle has its own classloader. Once you understand how these fit together, debugging problems may be somewhat easier. The Open Source community is fortunate enough to have a large collection of excellent free tools at its disposal.

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