Leveraging the Eclipse Ecosystem for the Scientific Community

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Leveraging the Eclipse Ecosystem for the
Scientific Community

• Tony Lam _at_ ANSTO
• Andy Götz _at_ ESRF
• ICALEPCS 2005

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Sydney - Australia
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology
Organisation (ANSTO)
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Neutron Scattering Probing material structure
with neutron beam
OPAL Open Pool Australian Light-water Reactor
ANSTO
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Eclipse
Eclipse
Eclipse
Eclipse
Eclipse
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Eclipse Invasion

• Eclipse Workshop
• EPICS Workshop
• TANGO Workshop
• MDA Workshop
• Oral Presentations
• MDA Control Systems and Eclipse (TU1.4)
• Eclipse Ecosystem (TH3A.3)
• EPICS Office (FR2.6)

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What is Eclipse?

• Official Definition
• Eclipse is an open source community whose
  projects are focused on providing an extensible
  development platform and application frameworks
  for building software.
• Eclipse Evolution
• Version 1.0 Open Source Java IDE
• Version 2.0 Universal Tooling Platform
• Version 3.0 Platform for Rich Client Application

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Eclipse as an IDE

• Language supported
• Java, C/C, C, FORTRAN, Ruby, Python, Ada,
  AspectJyou name it!!
• Agile Method
• Incremental build, Refactoring
• Test Driven Development
• JUnit Test, Automated Testing Framework
• Model Driven Software Development
• Open Architectureware
• Team Concurrent Development support
• CVS, Subversion
• Plus More
• ANT support, Interactive Debugger, Visual Editor

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Eclipse Overview
Another Tool
Eclipse Platform
Help
Workbench
Java Development Tools (JDT)
JFace
SWT
Team
Your Tool
Plug-in Development Environment (PDE)
Workspace
Debug
Their Tool
Platform Runtime
Eclipse Project
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Eclipse Ecosystem

• 30 open source official Eclipse projects
• 1000 commercial / open source plug-ins
• EclipsePlugins
• http//eclipse-plugins.2y.net/eclipse/index.jsp
• Eclipse Plugin Central
• http//www.eclipseplugincentral.com/

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http//eclipse-plugins.2y.net/eclipse/index.jsp
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8 Top Level Eclipse Project I

• The Eclipse Project
• Platform, Java, Plug-in development support
• The Eclipse Tools Project
• Modelling, C/C, UML
• The Eclipse Technology Project
• Academic / Research, Embedded System,
  Communication, Application Lifecycle management
• The Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project
• J2EE development

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8 Top Level Eclipse Project II

• The Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform
  Project (TPTP)
• Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools Project
  (BIRT)
• Data Tools Platform Project (DTP)
• Device Software Development Platform (DSDP)

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Eclipse Consortium
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Eclipse Phenomena

• Wide range of mainstream IT industry users
• Official use 2 ? 8 in last 6 month (end of
  04)
• Unofficial use 44 (end of 04)
• Becoming a new teaching tool in universities
• Increasing popularity among the scientific
  community
• Eclipses open source model is changing the
  future of software industry

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New Software Collaboration Model

• IDE Applications
• IBM Websphere Studio, JBuilder 2006, Eclipse,
  Palm OS Developer Suite
• Software Testing Tools
• IBM Rational Application Tester, Scapa Test
  Performance Platform

Product A
Product B
Compete
Commercial Part
Open Source Platform
Collaborate
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Eclipse RCP

• RCP Rich Client Platform
• RCP Really Cool Product!?
• Subset of Eclipse ? minium set of component to
  build a standalone application
• A common platform for collaboration
• Good framework contributes up to 80 of code
• Better spend more effort on business logic
• Code sharing with your community
• Leverage existing Eclipse plug-in to your
  application!!

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Simple RCP
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Extreme Eclipse

• BitTorrent
• Azureus (top sourceforge project)
• SchoolEclipse
• School management
• Gmail
• eBay
• French Wine Test

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Parallel Tool Platform (PTP)

• Running and debugging application on parallel
  computing environment
• Collaborative effort between Los Alamos National
  Laboratory, Monash University, IBM, Intel,
• Good example of cross domain open source
  collaboration
• Official Eclipse sponsored project

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GumTree Platform

• Open source application framework for building a
  scientific workbench that supports data
  acquisition and data analysis
• Control System Neutral
• TANGO, EPICS, SICS
• Visualisation Tool Neutral
• OpenGL, VTK, ISAW, Ptplot
• Data Format Neutral
• HDF, XML, NeXus
• Collaboration
• ANSTO, ESRF, ILL, PSI, and SAFARI-1 Reactor

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GumTree Philosophy

• Leveraging many Java / Eclipse technologies
• Code reusability
• A common software platform in control system /
  experimental physics domain
• Platform for software collaboration

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Breaking News!!

• Eclipse Community for the Control System
  Community has been Proposed!!
• EPICS Office
• GumTree community
• Existing Eclipse based CS applications
• Eclipse user group in ICALEPCS
• Plus the huge Eclipse community
• We should not only leverage the IDE technology,
  but also leverage their model for collaboration.

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Where to start Eclipse

• http//www.eclipse.org
• http//www.eclipsecon.org (2005)
• http//gumtree.sourceforge.net
• Contact tony.lam_at_ansto.gov.au

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Eclipse History

• Started by IBM since 1998
• A platform to unite IBM Visual Age products.
• IBM handed over the control to a NOT FOR PROFIT
  consortium, the Eclipse Foundation, at 2004
• IBM also donated 40million to the Eclipse
  Foundation
• The Eclipse Foundation now as over 100 commercial
  members
• Each member must use Eclipse technology on at
  least one of their project

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Eclipse Architecture

• Software Development
• Medical Billing System
• Scientific Computing