Natural for Eclipse

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Natural for Eclipse

• Carl Hoffmann
• Systems Engineer

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Agenda

• Natural Next Generation
• General Eclipse Introduction
• System Requirements
• Natural for Eclipse Architecture
• The Natural Perspective

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Natural 2006 Service-Oriented Development of
Business Applications
NaturalBusinessServices
SOA and Web Services
Application Designer
Rich Internet Applications
Natural for Eclipse
Developer Productivity
Mainframe, Linux, Unix, Windows
Cross-PlatformSupport
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Partnership with innoWake GmbH

• innoWake is a software vendor and service
  provider, based in Germany and specialized in the
  area of Natural and Java application development
  and modernization.
• By integrating innoWakes product natclipse, a
  state-of-the-art Eclipse-based development
  environment for Natural, we can ensure a faster
  time-to-market for our Natural 2006 Eclipse
  strategy.
• The co-development plan between Software AG ETS
  RD and innoWake RD will provide a
  well-integrated and comprehensive new product
  Natural for Eclipse in Q3 of 2006.
• Early-Adopter Program

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Natural Next GenerationUsing the Eclipse
Framework for Development

• A new Natural development environment based on
  Eclipse coexisting with Natural Studio
• Attract new programmers
• Extensible framework (open source community)
• Leverage existing Eclipse plug-Ins
• Increase productivity with powerful Eclipse
  features
• Pure Linux development environment
• Leveraging the Natural SPoD infrastructure
  (Natural Productivity Package)
• Single look feel across Software AG products
  (e.g. Natural, ApplinX, EntireX)

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General Eclipse Introduction
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General Eclipse Introduction

• IDE Workbench
• Perspectives
• Views
• Editors

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General introduction Eclipse

• Perspectives

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General introduction Eclipse

• Editors

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General introduction Eclipse

• Navigator view
• Similar to Explorer in Windows

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General introduction Eclipse

• Navigator view
• Decorators

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General introduction Eclipse

• Task View

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General introduction Eclipse

• Team plugin
• Arbitrary versioning systems supported
• CVS and SVN built in out-of-the-box

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General introduction Eclipse

• Team synchronization perspective
• Team sync perspective
• Resource history

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General introduction Eclipse

• General functions
• Search
• Replace
• Comparing

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System Requirements
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System requirements

• Client
• JRE1.4 for Eclipse
• Builds available for
• Windows XP / Intel x86 J2SE 1.4.2_08
• Linux x86, x86_64, PPC, ia64 with GTK 2
• Linux x86 with Motif
• Solaris 8 (SPARC / GTK 2 or Motif)
• AIX (PPC / Motif)
• HP-UX (HP9000 / Motif)
• Mac OSX (Mac / Carbon)
• Eclipse 3.1.0 3.1.2 for Natural for Eclipse

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System requirements

• Server
• Natural Development Server
• Linux, Windows, and mainframe
• Structured mode code

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Natural for Eclipse Architecture
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Natural Development Environments
Natural for Eclipse
Natural IDE, Natural ISPF Character-based
Natural for Windows
Natural Development Server
Natural
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Natural for Eclipse Multiple Programming
Languages Environment
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Eclipse and the Natural Development Server (SPoD)

• Map to Natural Remote Environment
• Supports different remote locations (NDV),
  mainframes, Unix, Linux

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Natural for Eclipse Highlights

• A new Natural development environment based on
  Eclipse
• Powered by the Eclipse framework (e.g.
  code-completion, open source plug-ins)
• Supports team collaboration and version control
  (e.g. CVS, Subversion)
• Cross-platform development for Natural
  (Mainframe, UNIX, Linux)
• Available for Windows and Linux

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Natural for Eclipse Architecture

• Choose a development strategy
• SPoD
• Edit directly on the target system
• Versioning system shared lib
• Target library defined by .nat-team
• Versioning system isolated lib
• Target library defined by .nat-team

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Natural for Eclipse Architecture

• Current file repository

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Natural for Eclipse Architecture

• Natural for Eclipse file repository

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Natural for Eclipse Restrictions

• Systrans file type not supported
• Reporting mode not supported

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Integration with the Natural Productivity Package
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Natural Perspective
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Natural Next GenerationUsing the Eclipse
Framework for Development
Natural Eclipse IDE
Perspectives and Views
Quick Assist
Open Source Plug-Ins
Search Views
Preferences
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Natural perspective

• Views
• Navigator View
• Dependencies View
• Call Sequence View
• Outline View
• Task View
• Problem View

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Natural perspective

• Editors
• Object Editor (programs, subprograms, and data
  areas)
• Syntax highlighting
• Code completion
• Code folding
• Map Editor
• Dialog Editor

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Natural perspective

• Targets

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Natural for Eclipse Multiple Programming
Environment
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