Open-Source Eclipse PluginAugust 28, 2014
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Speakers
Josh KaplanProduct Manager@joshsfdc
Nick ChenDeveloper@vazexqi
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Agenda
The New Eclipse Plugin
The Different Versions
Doing Your Own Updates
Getting Your Updates Incorporated
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The New Eclipse Plugin
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Plugin History
Original Plugin– Authored in 2007 (!)
– Utilized Metadata API
– Proprietary parser
– Works with Eclipse 3.6
Tooling API & Developer Console
Plugin Update– Eclipse 4.3, Java 7
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In With The New
Few Modifications– Tooling API
– New Parser
– Silly Fixes
Open Source– Github repository
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The Different Versions
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What Could I Install?
Currently Supported Release– IDE Install Page, developer.salesforce.com
Work-in-progress Version– Master branch in Github
– Will become Currently Supported Release
Previously Supported Releases
Other Versions??
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Making Your Own Changes
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Overview of typical workflow
Fork the forcedotcom/idecore repository
Set up your workspace followingforcedotcom/idecore/wiki/Getting-Started
Find (or create) an issue on forcedotcom/idecore/issues
Work on issue and test your changes
Submit a pull request
Under the hood
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Partner WSDL
Metadata WSDL
Tooling WSDL
Apex WSDL
Editors Build Views …Apex Deploy Exec Anon
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Configuration files– plugin.xml
– manifest.mf
– build.properties
Configuration files– core-application-
context.xml• aspects.xml
• components.xml
• plugin-contributions.xml
• services.xml
• static-content.xml
Let’s make a change
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Testing The Plugin Unit Tests
– Run on your org(s)
– Run on a trial org
Org Builder– Currently internal to Salesforce
– Eventually available to you
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Getting Your Updates Incorporated
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Branches, Forks, and Commits (oh, my!)
Master Fork
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What Can I Do? Bug Fixes
Minor Features
Feature Enhancements
Big Features
Submit ideas (…and then implement them!)
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What Will Be Accepted? Bug Fixes
Minor Features
Features Already On Our Backlog
CLA – Contributor License Agreement
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Community Version Unsupervised branch
A home for items not in master
Super-set of supported functionality
Select which features you want and / or trust
(Note: this does NOT exist yet!)
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The Plugin Now Belongs To Everyone
You are hereby challenged…
Salesforce will continue to do its part
Together we can do more!
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Q & A
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Josh KaplanProduct Manager@joshsfdc
Nick ChenDeveloper@vazexqi
https://github.com/forcedotcom/idecore/wiki/Getting-Started