It has been a busy opening day at EclipseCon 2010. I have been able to attend some lightning talks (~25 minutes) where a synopsis of a later presentation is given. Gives you an idea of the forthcoming content.
The first session of the day involved an introductory presentation on the e4rover challenge 
– translation, control a remote vehicle in a Mars terrain simulation using the current version of Eclipse e4 with driving controls.
Followed by a three hour tutorial on “Working with OSGi” that developed “Toast” a sample fleet management application. Many of the presentations are highly technical and domain specific so finding presentations for a newbie like me is a challenge. Luckily, the lightning talks are 12.5 to 25 minutes of introduction to pitch for more detailed presentations later in the week.
What is striking is that some of the project proposals can have overlap with each other and compete for community attention. A point raised in the Eclipse Modelling Framework (EMF) panel discussion was the difficulty in picking a project for an application and being sure that a project is kept active.
A project proposal called Eclipse Scout is being an application framework and SDK that is being made open source by a Swiss Company BSI who have used it to create their own CRM application. I noted their intention to integrate with Jasperserver but the lack of Ingres on their database connectivity slide. I raised it with the presenter Matthias Zimmermann who said the only reason was lack of expertise in their engineering. An opportunity to get in on the ground floor I think.
Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) was another lightning talk by the project lead Rob Ganor. I caught up with Rob and spoke to him about the latest developments in PTD. Incidentally, it’s moved on quite a way since the early syntax highlighting PHP editor. It now includes integration with xDebug or Zend debugger and path management. Adding the ability to provide code assist for the Ingres PHP driver would improve productivity and details on how to are on the wiki page.
The day ended with a short Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) BoF meeting where we met with members of the project leadership. Brian Fitzpatrick informed us the Ingres Database Workbench had been submitted into DTP Enablement, so not part of the release stream but available from the source tree.
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