How beginners took on the RCP Framework ! 5 Golden Rules

Anne-Laure Lugan - EADS Astrium

Igor Laborie - AKKA

Speakers

Igor Laborie - AKKA Seasoned Eclipse RCP Developer

Expert on Solea Project

Anne-Laure Lugan - EADS Astrium Proxy Product Owner on Solea Project

Developer on Solea Project

What is Solea ?

Solea : project context

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Sprint 4 weeks

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Highest priorities

How to learn Eclipse RCP?

Learning? Newbes

team Benefits? No bugs!

Tough

choices

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SWT

Java

OSGi

Java

Swing SWT

Learning? Newbes

team Benefits? No bugs!

Tough

choices

OSGi “OSGi don't let

me be

Misunderstood”

Think

modular

What if my team is all “RCP-newbies”?

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OSGi Newbes

team Benefits? No bugs!

Tough

choices

Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer

through early and continuous delivery

of valuable software.

Welcome changing requirements, even late in

development. Agile processes harness change for

the customer's competitive advantage.

Deliver working software frequently, from a

couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a

preference to the shorter timescale.

Business people and developers must work

together daily throughout the project.

Build projects around motivated individuals.

Give them the environment and support they need,

and trust them to get the job done.

The most efficient and effective method of

conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face

conversation.

Working software is the primary measure of progress.

Agile processes promote sustainable development.

The sponsors, developers, and users should be able

to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.

Continuous attention to technical excellence

and good design enhances agility.

Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount

of work not done--is essential.

The best architectures, requirements, and designs

emerge from self-organizing teams.

At regular intervals, the team reflects on how

to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts

its behavior accordingly.

The best architectures, requirements, and

designs emerge from self-organizing teams.

OSGi Newbes

team Benefits? No bugs!

Tough

choices

Team

continuous

improvement

Refactor

with

experience

Mix

people

Errare

humanum

est

Code

review

OSGi Team

Continuous

Improvement

Benefits? No bugs! Tough

choices

Which can be Eclipse RCP benefits?

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Java

OSGi

Equinox

Eclipse RCP

Solea Default chart colors

UI Prefs

Prefs

Console

Files

Console

Log

Extracting...

Job

Tutorial

Help

OSGi Team

Continuous

Improvement

Benefits? No bugs! Tough

choices

Reuse

Rich

framework

Think

service

OSGi

services

Respect

standards

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How can I prevent my Eclipse RCP

application from having bugs?

OSGi Team

Continuous

Improvement

Reuse No bugs! Tough

choices

V1

V2

now

OSGi Team

Continuous

Improvement

Reuse No bugs! Tough

choices

Efficient

tests

Automation

From

start

1 bug

1 test

Fine

grain

Coarsed

grain

OSGi Team

Continuous

Improvement

Reuse

services

Efficient

tests

Tough

choices

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3.x or 4.x ?

Eclipse 3

Eclipse 4

Shall I use EMF?

Shall I use dependency onto

org.eclipse.ide

BIRT? Custom solution?

Forms? SWT?

TreeViewer?

CNF?

OSGi Team

Continuous

Improvement

Reuse

services

Efficient

tests

Tough

choices

Code

continuous

improvement

Refactor

design

Refactor

code

OSGi

Team

Continuous

Improvement

Reuse

services Efficient tests

Code

Continuous

Improvement

Read

eclipse

code

Share your

experience

Think

simple

Details

matter

Keep your

code

clean

Tooling

Efficient build

process

Any question(s)?

Thanks !

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