2. Overview
● Eclipse
○ What is Eclipse
○ Why is it so slow
● Installing
○ Organizing Eclipse
○ Installing multiple plugins
● Plugins
○ Languages
○ Create documentation
○ Version Control
○ Warnings
○ Team: Mylyn
● Customization
○ Domain Specific Languages (DSLs)
● The Eclipse Marketplace
● List of interesting Plugins
3. What is Eclipse?
● Integrated Development Environment
● Community
● Modular
● Extensible
● Multi-language
Industry standard in HW design community
4. Why is Eclipse so slow?
Startup time is longer than notepad / Vim / ...
but: Think about what you get in return.
Getting on an airplane is a lot slower
than getting into your car.
That does not make your car
faster than an airplane.
5. Organizing Eclipse
● One or several Eclipse installations?
● Update cycle
○ managed by IT department?
○ never update?
○ continually update?
○ File > Import > Install > From Existing Installation
http://support.sigasi.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/140
● Sharing settings across your team
○ http://support.sigasi.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/77
6. Installing multiple plug-ins
● Share with your colleagues
○ Export / Import list of plugins
File > Export > Install > Installed software items
● Managed by your IT department
○ Genuitec SDC
○ https://yoxos.eclipsesource.com/
○ Eclipse Oomph (new)
○ Local mirror
7. Languages
Dozens of languages supported.
Java, most prominently. but also:
● C / C++
● Tcl
● Python
● VHDL / (System)Verilog
● XML / HTML / CSS
● Wikitext (e.g. Markdown; used for documentation)
● and much more...
8. How to create documentation
● Doxygen (all languages)
● JavaDoc (Java)
● Sigasi documentation generator (VHDL)
● HTML
● Wikitext / Markdown
● LaTeX
9. ● See which files have changed since the
latest commit
● Commit, annotate (praise), diff
Supporting:
● Subversion
● GIT
● Clearcase
● Perforce
● ...
Version control
11. ● Find tasks (from issue tracker)
● Track changes
● Track which file you need for a task
● Commit to version control, using correct task
reference
For example: GitHub, Trac, Jira, ...
Team connectors: Mylyn
12. Customization
● External Tools
○ run a command, optionally based on selected file
● Custom builder
○ automatically run command as part of compilation
● Process output of external tools
○ generate warning markers in your source files
● Create a plugin
○ plain plugin
○ Xtext
○ Zest
13. Domain Specific languages
Refrigerator description
Cooling algorithm
Code Generation
C-code
Documenation
Domain specific
simulator
http://www.voelter.de/data/presentations/RefrigeratorsAndDSLs.pdf
14. The Eclipse Marketplace
The Eclipse Marketplace is where you
find all these nice plugins.
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/
or
Click Help > Eclipse Marketplace…
15. List of interesting plugins
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/mylyn-wikitext
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/sigasi-vhdl-plugin
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/marker-manager
https://eclipse.org/dltk/ (used for Tcl)
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/pydev-python-ide-eclipse
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/open-explorer
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/mousefeed
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclox (for Doxygen)
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/anyedit-tools (editor extensions)
16. List of interesting plugins
Revision control:
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/egit-git-team-provider
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/subversive-svn-team-provider
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/p4eclipse
http://sourceforge.net/projects/eclipse-ccase/ clearcase
Mylyn connectors
http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/
17. Free trial
Get a free 2-month trial of the Sigasi IDE:
http://www.sigasi.com/plc2-2015
