USING ECLIPSE

A Professional Development Seminar

Date: Saturday, January 28, 2006
Time: 9:00a.m. to 5.00p.m.
Location: SAP Labs U.S., 3410 Hillview Ave., Building D, Palo Alto, California

Overview

“Eclipse is a kind of universal tool platform – an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular.” It is truly the Swiss army knife of software tools. Sound too good to be true? Most of us know that when a tool tries to do everything, it ends up doing little well. But that’s just not so with Eclipse!

Eclipse is industrial strength open software, being increasingly popular in development shops. Eclipse plug-ins support work with different programming languages, support software libraries and platforms, and support additional functionality such as design, documentation, and testing. Some plug-ins are free, others are not, so plug-in writing can be a business opportunity. Many software packages are creating Eclipse plug-ins to simplify the use of their platforms. Eclipse is becoming the leading alternative to Microsoft’s Visual Studio.

This seminar will first look at Eclipse as an IDE for building Java projects, covering installation, basic use for Java, and features of the platform itself. It will then examine some Eclipse plug-ins, looking at a few in depth and at resources available for finding plug-ins. The seminar will end with an overview of designing and implementing Eclipse plug-ins.

The Speaker
Gary Pollice is a professor of practice at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Worcester, MA. He teaches software engineering, design, testing, and other computer science courses, and also directs student projects. Before entering the academic world, he spent more than thirty-five years developing various kinds of software, from business applications to compilers and tools. His last industry job was with IBM Rational software, where he was known as “the RUP Curmudgeon” and was also a member of the original Rational Suite team. He is the primary author of Software Development for Small Teams: A RUP-Centric Approach, published by Addison- Wesley in 2004. He holds a B.A. in mathematics and an M.S. in computer science.

Who Should Attend

Registration

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Schedule

8.30-9.00 Registration
9.00 - 9.15 Introduction
9.15 - 10.45 Session 1
10.45 - 11.00 Break
11.00 - 12.30 Session 2
12.30 - 1.30 Lunch
1.30 - 3.00 Session 3
3.00 - 3.15 Break
3.15 - 4.45 Session 4
4.45 - 5.00 Questions, Summary

Directions

  • From 280
    • Take Page Mill Road Exit towards the bay.
    • Turn right onto Deer Creek Road.
    • Turn left at stop sign onto Arasrdero Road.
    • Turn left onto Hillview Avenue. 3410 Hillview is located on the left hand side of the road.
  • From 101
    • Take San Antonio Road exit towards the hills.
    • Turn right at the first light onto E. Charleston Road.
    • Turn right Continue past El Camino Real where Charleston becomes Arastradero.
    • Continue past Foothill Expressway and turn right at the stop sign onto Hillview Avenue.
    • 3410 Hillview is located