The development tooling landscape is changing and moving towards cloud-based developer tooling. While this movement is what everybody is talking about, a clear vision of how cloud-based developer tooling will look is still missing. Converting the existing desktop-based IDEs into something that runs in the browser seems to be the wrong approach. At the same time all of the cloud-based approaches seem to be fully disconnected from the existing desktop-based IDEs. They require that developers “move over” into the cloud for doing their development. Often they have to leave existing tools behind while the new cloud-based tooling is missing important functionality that people use every day in their existing desktop IDEs. This project bridges the gap.
Eclipse RCP Testing Tool allows create and execute test cases for Eclipse-based applications with minimal effort. The minimal required configuration of applications under test is as simple as browsing for a folder for binary AUTs or choosing a PDE launch configuration for AUTs from sources. A typical workflow to create a test case which should work in most cases looks like this: capture an application state, record test actions, add assertions. More complex activities including test parameterization, extracting common pieces of functionality into reusable actions, writing test cases manually before UI, and test case debugging are also available. Developers can extend the tool's functionality to add record/replay support of custom widgets and capture/apply support of custom aspects of an application state.
Eclipse Californium (Cf) is an open source implementation of the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP). It is written in Java and targets unconstrained environments such as back-end service infrastructures (e.g., proxies, resource directories, or cloud services) and less constrained environments such as embedded devices running Linux (e.g., smart home/factory controllers or cellular gateways).
The Eclipse Handly project provides basic building blocks for handle-based models, with an emphasis on language-specific source code models of the underlying Eclipse workspace. It allows creating highly scalable, robust, and thoroughly optimized models similar in design principles to the tried-and-tested Java model of Eclipse Java development tools while reducing programming effort, fostering software reuse, and enabling interoperability.
Handly is designed for flexibility and can be used to create source code models for practically any language, whether general-purpose or domain-specific; it is compatible with any parsing technology. The model implementor has complete control over the model's base-level API, including the ability to implement a preexisting handle-based model API. At the same time, the provided uniform meta-level API establishes a common language and makes it possible for IDE components to work in a generic way with any Handly-based model.
Eclipse Kura™ offers a Java/OSGi-based container for M2M applications running in service gateways. Kura provides or, when available, aggregates open source implementations for the most common services needed by M2M applications. Kura components are designed as configurable OSGi Declarative Service exposing service API and raising events. While several Kura components are in pure Java, others are invoked through JNI and have a dependency on the Linux operating system.
The Eclipse Source Editing project provides source editing support for typical "web" languages and the mixing of them, with a focus on making the editors extensible and easily reusable.
The JSF Tools Project adds comprehensive support to the Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project to simplify development and deployment of JavaServer Faces (JSF) applications.
