7:00 PM, Thursday, 3 April
Coding with Eclipse: Modern Software Development
Vineet Sinha, Architexa
The buzz around Eclipse has only been growing. Since its initial start as a Java development tool, Eclipse has rapidly evolved into a reusable platform for building IDEs, rich desktop applications, and more recently server-side applications. This talk covers the latest happenings in the Eclipse world and brings highlights from this year’s EclipseCon.
We will give an overview of the different aspects of Eclipse and the updates of the various Eclipse projects. We will demonstrate using the tools that make up Eclipse as well as show how to reuse the platform, covering both how you can effectively use it for software development, and how you can extend it to do what you need it to do by providing your own plug-ins. We will also show some of the non-traditional tools built by the Eclipse community, ranging from tools designed to reduce developers’ information-overload to ones aimed at providing for easier development of mobile and rich web based applications.
Vineet Sinha started building Eclipse plug-ins in 2003 as part of research in improving developer productivity. This research was the basis of his recent PhD at the MIT CS+AI Lab, and his tool has been rated as one of the top Eclipse tools in its category. His work has been motivated by his previous experiences working with large codebases, such as Microsoft Office, and has been done in part through collaboration with Accenture Research Labs. Vineet is currently working on building out this functionality at Architexa www.architexa.com
This joint meeting of the Boston/Central New England Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society and GBC/ACM will be held on 4/3/2008, from 7-9 pm at MIT Room NE51-325.
E51 is the Tang Center on the corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Sts and Memorial Dr.; it's mostly used by the Sloan School. You can see it on the map at
<https://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?zoom=level4;centerx=711791;centery=495971>.
Room 325 is on the 3rd floor.
For more information contact Peter Mager (p.mager at computer.org).
Updated: March 31, 2008.