Overview of the Eclipse Orion and Flux projects.

1. Orion:
Re-imagining Software Development
Mike Milinkovich
Executive Director
Eclipse Foundation
@mmilinkov
iWI 2013
February 28, 2013

2. You Know Eclipse
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3. Platform & Modularity
Run-time
Plug-insPlatform
New Plug-ins are
First Class Citizens
– same footing for
everyone
Open API and
commercially friendly
licensing – Low
barriers to Entry
Ease of Integration
and Extensibility
Spurs Innovation
Competition can take place
on implementations – users
decide winners
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4. Creating an Ecosystem
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5. Lessons Learned
• The Good
– Think platform
– Ecosystems win
– Modularity and extensibility are vital
• The Bad
– The desktop is the point of integration
• The Ugly
– Overwhelming complexity
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Times Change

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13. What’s wrong with this picture?
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14. What’s wrong with this picture?
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15. tools for the web
on the web
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code.everywhere = true;

16. The Orion Project
A Browser Based Open Tooling Platform
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17. Why and What is Orion?
• Initiated a little over 3 years ago
• A change from other Eclipse projects
• A shift to Web based application delivery
• The Web is the Platform
• Complex IDEs replaced by Web workflows
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18. Do Developers Want to Move to the Cloud?
• Progression to Cloud based tools
• GitHub - dramatic shift in expectations
• Code Analytics like Ohloh
• Platform as a Service offerings all Cloud based
How was your last IDE setup experience?
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19. How Can we Get Them to Want to Move?
• Follow a set of design principles, be agile
• Embrace the modern browser
• Create a platform that’s extensible
• Create components that are consumable
• Enable cross-site workflows & integration
• Create a tool suite that does what is needed
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20. What is modularity in the Web?
“plugins” live right in your browser page
Agnostic to where the plugin or code came from
Plug-in
Plug-in
Web
Server
Web
Server
Web
Server
Web Client
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21. Example: JSBeautify (JavaScript prettyprint) plugin
You provide html, javascript elements, from your web site
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22. Orion Pages and Plugins
• Orion provides many pages by default
• Provides necessary functionality for developers
• Go from creating, editing, self hosting to deployment and
source code control
• Extensibility is what sets Orion apart
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23. Time for a Demo
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24. The Web is International, and so is Orion
i18N built in the core, the UI and in the plug-ins
Text editor capable of both Double Byte and Bidi
Fully accessible
Plugin for Externalizing strings to bundles
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25. Two sources of an Orion Server
Multi-user Equinox based Java Server
Great for reusing existing Eclipse plugins and
exposing them RESTfully to an Orion client
Node.js based single user NPM install
Very portable and great performance
Deploy anywhere Node is installed
Also works on
embedded
boards like the
Raspberry Pi
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26. Coming Soon – Docker
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57 different products

30. Challenge 1
We don’t know yet how cloud-based
developer tooling should look like
In particular, no one knows how to support
compiled languages like Java
(as in really supporting those languages!)
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31. And the
other tools?
What about all the other tools that I
love to use on my machine?
3
1
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32. Challenge 2
jump over into the cloud and leave
everything else behind doesn’t work
today
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33. The backbone:
Asynchronous Messaging
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34. All sorts of micro services
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35. connecting the desktop IDE to the
cloud-based era of developer tooling
Project Flux
Demo
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36. Find out more…
Contact the Orion team if you’re interested in:
consuming, contributing, moving to web technologies, a deep
dive on the implementation
http://eclipse.org/orion
http://orionhub.org - Anyone can create an account here
http://planetorion.org
follow Orion on Twitter @orionhub or Google+
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37. Thank You!
Questions?
mike@eclipse.org
@mmilinkov
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