EclipseCon NA 2014: Project Flux - Connecting the Eclipse IDE to the Cloud-Based Era of Developer Tooling

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!2 "Why can Google search the internet in 100ms, but my Eclipse IDE takes 5 seconds to open a type hierarchy?

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cloud-based developer tooling !3 the answer:

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We are already close Google, issue tracker, CI build system, GitHub, Mail, Hangout, Help, Stackoverflow, etc. ! But coding? !4

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!6 NO

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Challenge 1 We don’t know yet how cloud-based developer tooling should look !7

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And the other tools? What about all the other tools that I love to use on my machine? !8

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Challenge 2 jumping over into the cloud and leaving everything else behind doesn’t work today !9

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Implementation Lets start from scratch and re- implement full blown language tooling in JavaScript !10

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Implementation Lets start from scratch and re- implement full blown language tooling in JavaScript !11 NO

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Challenge 3 re-use the good parts !12

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Demo !14

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Demo https:/ /www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkoplIMJfHw (in the screencast the project is called Flight, which was an early prototype name for it) !15

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The backbone:  Asynchronous Messaging

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All sorts of micro services

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Project Flux @ Eclipse  Project Leads:  John Arthorne (IBM)  Martin Lippert (Pivotal)  Creation review:  March 26, 2014  Wanna join? Let us know! !18

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Thanks Disclaimer:  It is NOT ready-to-ship code yet  and the project is at the beginning ! ! Andy Clement, aclement@gopivotal.com  Martin Lippert, mlippert@gopivotal.com !19