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Eclipse IDE and Workspace Provisioning

Lars Martin, itemis AG, November 2012

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Success in a team starts with ...

... providing the right equipment

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Equipment for Development Teams working with Eclipse

Items to be consistently defined and setup

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IDE: Eclipse installation and tool plug-ins used for developing the target product or application Embedded Tools: JDK, Maven, etc. Target Platform: Eclipse platform and components that the target product or application is developed against Preferences: Conventions and settings to be applied when developing the target product or application (e.g., code formatting, compiler settings) Project Sets: Eclipse projects containing the sources of the target product or application, optionally clustered in working sets Task Data: Mylyn task repositories used for tracking the issues of the target product or application

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State of the Art

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Manually defined by one person Manually applied by everyone

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Big Picture
Manual workspace provisioning

IDE, target platform, project sets, etc. on

SCM, web server, etc.

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Project lead

Project team members Guidelines

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Manually defined by one person Automatically applied to everyone

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p3 at a Glance
One-click provisioning of custom Eclipse packages and workspace setups

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1) Download, unzip and launch Eclipse IDE

Basically Eclipse Classic SDK + p3 workspace provisioning tools May include embedded tools like JDK, Maven, etc.

2) Select a profile (one-click) 3) Automatic provisioning of profile artifacts (required IDE plugins/ features, target platform, workspace preferences, relevant projects from SCM, Mylyn task repository configurations) 4) Automatic update of profile artifacts at every restart of the Eclipse IDE

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Big Picture
Automatic workspace provisioning with p3

p3 profile on

SCM

Build server Project lead

publishes on

Web server

Project team members

builds

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Lars Martin lars.martin@itemis.de +49 151 4260 7011

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