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Orion: Re-imagining Software Development

Mike MilinkovichExecutive DirectorEclipse Foundation@mmilinkov

iWI 2013February 28, 2013

You Know Eclipse

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Platform & Modularity

Run-time

Plug-insP

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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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Creating an Ecosystem


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



Times Change

What’s wrong with this picture?


What’s wrong with this picture?


200 MB

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tools for the webon the web


code.everywhere = true;

The Orion ProjectA Browser Based Open Tooling Platform


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


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?


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


What is modularity in the Web?

“plugins” live right in your browser pageAgnostic to where the plugin or code came from

Plug-in

Plug-in

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

Web Client


Example: JSBeautify (JavaScript prettyprint) plugin

You provide html, javascript elements, from your web site


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


Time for a Demo


The Web is International, and so is Orion

i18N built in the core, the UI and in the plug-insText editor capable of both Double Byte and BidiFully accessiblePlugin for Externalizing strings to bundles


Two sources of an Orion Server

Multi-user Equinox based Java ServerGreat for reusing existing Eclipse plugins and exposing them RESTfully to an Orion clientNode.js based single user NPM installVery portable and great performanceDeploy anywhere Node is installed

Also works on embedded

boards like the Raspberry Pi


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tjR5Kh3jlYs

Coming Soon – Docker

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57 different products

Challenge 1We 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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And theother tools?

What about all the other tools that I love to use on my machine?

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Challenge 2jump over into the cloud and leave everything else behind doesn’t work

today

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The backbone:Asynchronous Messaging


All sorts of micro services


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+





http://orionhub.org/

http://orionhub.org/

http://planetorion.org/

Thank You!

Questions?

[email protected]@mmilinkov
