location_city Bengaluru schedule Aug 27th 10:00 - 10:45 AM IST place Sigma Hall 2

You probably have an Eclipse 3.X application and you have a lot of questions about your migration…to Eclipse 4.

This talk is proposed for those who can not attend the migration workshop. It will summarize the main ideas and will help you to define your migration strategy. 

It will explain the confusion about the current status and future of the Eclipse Platform in its various guises. Is Eclipse 3.x dead? Should new development always use Eclipse 4? Should companies rewrite existing Eclipse 3.x applications on Eclipse 4? Is it possible to migrate my application? What are the prerequisites? And if not, then why did we bother with Eclipse 4?

If your choice is to migrate all or pieces or your application, it will answer to some questions : How should I proceed? Which components can be migrated? is there some tooling that could help me? Should I keep the compatibility layer or can I remove it definitively? Should I migrate my plugin totally or can I do it step by step? Could I develop new Eclipse 4 plugins and mix them with my old legacy code? What are the limits ? Where can I find ressources to help me?

 
 

Outline/Structure of the Talk

  • Reason for migration
  • The migration big picture
  • Prerequisites and strategy ? 
  • Tips and tools
  • How to start ? 

Learning Outcome

Participants will have a good idea of how to migrate, what is possible or not. 

Target Audience

Eclipse RCP 3 developer who wants to make a migration

Slides


schedule Submitted 7 years ago

  • Olivier Prouvost
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    Olivier Prouvost - Migration to E4 workshop. The truth about migrating to Eclipse 4

    Olivier Prouvost
    Olivier Prouvost
    Eclipse Consultant
    OPCoach
    schedule 7 years ago
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    480 Mins
    Workshop
    Intermediate

    You probably have an Eclipse 3.X application and you have a lot of questions about your migration…to Eclipse 4.

    This workshop has been made for you. After a few reminders about Eclipse 4 concepts, it will explain how to perform a migration.

    Actually Eclipse 4 runtime is now used for more over 4 years, and it provides really efficient concepts like : injection, application model based on EMF, IEventBroker to manage events, CSS styler and the E4 spies. The compatibility layer can convert E3 legacy code to this runtime, on the fly, but it constraints the developers to be sticked with the old legacy concepts and to ignore the new ones. 

    For this specific workshop, we will start with a pure 3.X application and obtain a pure 4.X application. 

    We will also explain the confusion about the current status and future of the Eclipse Platform in its various guises. Is Eclipse 3.x dead? Should new development always use Eclipse 4? Should companies rewrite existing Eclipse 3.x applications on Eclipse 4? Is it possible to migrate my application? What are the prerequisites? And if not, then why did we bother with Eclipse 4?

    If your choice is to migrate all or pieces or your application, it will answer to some questions : How should I proceed? Which components can be migrated? is there some tooling that could help me? Should I keep the compatibility layer or can I remove it definitively? Should I migrate my plugin totally or can I do it step by step? Could I develop new Eclipse 4 plugins and mix them with my old legacy code? What are the limits ? Where can I find ressources to help me?

     

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