EclipseCon is coming up and we are excited. If you are around, drop us a note. We will be giving two presentations.
The first presentation is based on our experiences working with and helping a number of teams over the last few years. We will be giving a talk titled Modularizing Large Legacy Java Applications on the 26th (Tuesday). The session abstract:
Need to migrate a project to run on an OSGi platform? Dreading working with a large, hard-to-maintain Java App? Finding development productivity moving to a stand-still?
Whether it is modularizing a project just to get it under control or to move the code to use a module system like OSGi, working with legacy codebase can be a nightmare.
In this session, we talk about some of our experiences working with two large projects. We share tips on what worked well, and suggest exercises that might help in day-to-day maintenance of projects.
The second presentation is based on our experiences building the core Architexa Tool Suite. We have been building a reputation of making previously tedious work easy-to-perform. The talk is titled Pushing Eclipse to the extreme – lessons in breaking UI rules on the 26th (Tuesday). The session abstract:
Ever felt that Eclipse has not changed much? That your plugin needs to do things differently than follow the Eclipse conventions? And have you felt the pains of breaking these Eclipse rules?
In trying to work hard on building something users want, we at Architexa have broken almost every rule of the user experience (and the underlying frameworks) that are part of Eclipse. And we have felt the pains of doing so.
In this session, we talk about us getting very valid requests from users to do things differently from the traditional way that Eclipse is used. We explore four of them in particular: to ship our plugin differently, to make saving an editor work differently, to integrate the builder differently, and to approach modeling/diagramming differently.
We will talk about the seemingly logical reasons for getting such user requests, about the large amounts of engineering challenges that fulfilling such requests can result in, and about the biggest challenge – those of the users who expect the ‘traditional’ way of doing things. We will also talk about the thought process that we have developed internally when trying to break such UI rules.
We will be around throughout the conference. Let us know if you want to talk about any of the above, about Architexa, or about software development in general.
