Polyglot Programmers Meetings

Eclipse Plug-in Development

Kevin P. Taylor

Tuesday November 11th 2008 at 7:00pm
Wheaton, Illinois Institute of Technology - Rice Campus, Room 103

Abstract

Eclipse RCP is the gold standard for building cross-platform, rich client applications using a pluggable architeture. Developers can leverage the Eclipse RCP, SWT, and OSGi toolsets to build anything from a simple Eclipse IDE plug-in to a full-blown, internet-enabled, rich client desktop application ready for the enterprise. This presentation will provide a brief overview of the toolsets and will demonstrate the technique for creating an Eclipse IDE plug-in. Not only that, we'll then repackage the simple plug-in and redeploy it as a standalone application!

Bio

Kevin P. Taylor founded Obtiva (http://obtiva.com) in 2005 to help teams get better at using agile practices, thereby delivering value through working software. Using agile practices itself, Obtiva delivers significant projects in Java, Eclipse RCP, Ruby on Rails, and other technologies. Kevin is the author of both training courses and articles related to agile practices (development and project management), test-driven development, and programming. He is a speaker at conferences and user groups around the U.S., including the Agile Conference, EclipseCon, and EclipseWorld.

Getting to the meeting

The next Polyglot Programmers meeting in Wheaton (co-sponsored by UniForum Chicago) will be at:

        IIT Rice Campus
        Room 103
        201 East Loop Road
        Wheaton, IL 60187-8489
Directions to IIT - Rice Campus in Wheaton
The 19-acre campus is located just northeast of the intersection of Naperville and Butterfield roads in south Wheaton's Danada development. The campus is three miles west of the Butterfield Road interchange of the N orth-South Tollway (I-355) and two miles north of the Naperville Road interchange of the East-West Tollway ( I-88).

From the North or South: From I-355 (North-South Tollway), exit westbound at Rt.56/Butterfield Road and proceed west 3 1/2 miles on Butterfield Road to East Loop Road. Turn right onto East Loop Road (Phillip's 66 Gas Station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building. Room 103 is the first room inside the north entrance.

From the I-294 (Tri-State Tollway), take the I-88 (East-West Tollway) westbound and follow directions "From the East or West" below.

From the East or West: From I-88 (East-West Tollway), take the Naperville Road exit. At the traffic light, turn left onto Naperville Road and continue north for 1\275 miles to Rt. 56/Butterfield Road. Turn right onto Rt. 56/Butterfield Road and proceed 1/4 mile to the first traffic light (East Loop Road). Turn left on to East Loop Road, ( Phillip's 66 Gas station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building.

Room 103 is the first room inside the north entrance.

Contact Dave Hoover at dave@obtiva.com for additional information about the meeting or about Polyglot Programmers.


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