Best Commercial Equinox Application - Winner!

Our Cyrano application has been selected as the very first Best Commercial Equinox Application. The Cyrano runtime consists of Equinox plus nearly 200 OSGi bundles running as an embedded Java application on small, mobile computers.

"Embedding Eclipse Equinox for Fun & Profit"

Eclipse has proven itself on the desktop as a world-class IDE and rich client platform, but few developers realize how Eclipse technologies provide a solid platform for embedded devices as well. Applications such as remote data logging, industrial control, and media servers can benefit from the same extensibility we have grown to expect on the desktop. In this tutorial, we walk through the process that a development team might follow to build a remote weather monitoring station. Starting with an off-the-shelf Linux platform with integrated wireless connectivity (Arcom ZyWAN), participants will build a system from the ground up.

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M0 - Setting Up Your IDE (1.6 MB)
M1 - Setting Up A Remote Platform (2.7 MB)
M2 - Remotely Provisioning Bundles (1.9 MB)
M3 - Installing the Weather Station Application (1.2 MB)
Tutorial Attendee Evaluation (8 kB)
[15 Positive, 0 Negative]

"Remotely Deploying Equinox with Maynstall/P2"

The Equinox provisioning software, P2, will offer some really cool update capabilities to Eclipse and RCP. But what if your runtime does not have a UI, or a remote runtime on a resource constrained device. Then we need Maynstall which separates the main components of P2 into a more distributed architecture for embedded and managed installs. During this talk we will take a look at the current Maynstall, explore how Maynstall will change to incorporate the P2 code and how to leverage it to manage and deploy applications to embedded devices, even headless ones!

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M0 - Setting Up Your IDE (864 kB)
M1 - Sample Application (2.6 MB)
M2 - Using Equinox P2 (3.1 MB)
Tutorial Attendee Evaluation (16 kB)
[13 Positive, 2 Negative]

"Where’s the Data? A Device Kit Tutorial"

Today’s Service-Oriented enterprise solutions can only make the correct decisions when they have the latest and most accurate data. This data is collected by a variety of sensor devices, each of which has its own message format, software interface, and physical connection. There is no accepted, standard way to interface these sensors and devices into such an enterprise system. What is needed is a technology that breaks software’s serialized dependency on its hardware platform, while extending the service model to the device layers. Enter Device Kit, an emerging technology, from the Service-Oriented Device Architecture (SODA) initiative within the Open Healthcare Framework (OHF). From a GPS to a car CAN bus, Device Kit has interfaced it all. Join us for this tutorial in which we unlock the secrets of Device Kit through the integration of a USB device with a temperature sensor (for input) and a pair of LEDs (for output). We will learn the ins and outs of the three basic layers of the Device Kit.

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M0 - Setting Up Your IDE (896 kB)
M1 - Connections (2.4 MB)
M2 - Transports (1.6 MB)
M3 - Devices (1.4 MB)
M4 - Application (1.4 MB)
Tutorial Attendee Evaluation (8 kB)
[9 Positive, 0 Negative]

"Giant Steps: A Small Distributed Team’s Experience With Rational Team Concert (Beta)"

We first heard about original Eclipse developers from Rational building a new set of Eclipse based tooling at EclipseCon in 2006. We didn’t know where that effort was going, but we continued to observe from afar as it developed, content using the collection of standalone tools we had (Eclipse, Subversion, CruiseControl, Skype, Bugzilla, and a Wiki) for our small, distributed, agile team. However, after being awarded a US government grant that comes with some significant reporting demands, we wanted to reassess our project management and development tooling. This talk discusses our experiences in adopting the Rational Team Concert tooling for a small, distributed team of three people, each located in a different geographic location. We'll discuss what gaps the new tooling filled in our open-source toolbelt, and what pieces felt right or wrong. We will explore the pros and cons of the Team Concert Beta from both a project management and reporting perspective, as well as from an Eclipse developer’s perspective. Time permitting we'll give a short demo of what we consider truly noteworthy.

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Giant Steps with Jazz (204 kB)