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How to make Airbus engineers’ life better with Eclipse ?!

June 2014 How to make Airbus engineers' life better with Eclipse - EclipseCon FR 2014

EclipseCon France 2014 Alain BERNARD - AIRBUS

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Follow our team ! June 2014 How to make Airbus engineers' life better with Eclipse - EclipseCon FR 2014

The aircraft engineer: he wants to make planes, not software!

The Eclipse enthusiast (may be the same guy as the speaker)

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First step: prepare a new era June 2014 How to make Airbus engineers' life better with Eclipse - EclipseCon FR 2014

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I dream of a unified workbench…

Do you know Eclipse ?

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I have too many tools to manage!

Do you know "Tools On Demand" ?

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I’m a young engineer, I’m lost in my new job!

RTFM!

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I learnt the thousands of physical parameters by heart!

You could also try the content assist

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19968th line…

Reading this file is quite difficult…

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Better?

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Where’s my Excel ?!

Feel the power of the NatTable…

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…and its integration!

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Second step : convince

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Introducing a new character…

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The chief! He owns the budget so the power!

Note: not only the chief should be convinced

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About development costs ?

Less than if we do everything ourselves!

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Some Eclipse projects metrics…

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EPL grants the right to build commercial apps on top of Eclipse

Eclipse Foundation grants IP cleanness thanks to Eclipse IP process

We can contribute to Eclipse project(s) and keep our added-value code

But it is Open Source ?!

Enjoy the Foundation’s IP strategy!

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Very Long Term Support

Open Innovation between partners

Improved Interoperability

Will it still exist in 40 years ?

Do you know PolarSys ?

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Luna powered!

Can I split my editor ?

Just wait for June 25th

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About learning curve ?

I have the same question

Learning Eclipse can be difficult for developers… and users

Commercial trainings are made for e4 but Eclipse IDE plugins are still 3.X style!

Using Eclipse outside software development team requires user’s trainings

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Third step : prepare the future June 2014 How to make Airbus engineers' life better with Eclipse - EclipseCon FR 2014

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Quick code generation Very efficient tooling (edit, compare, …)

Difficult to master How to choose between all EMF-based frameworks ?

We have to be more efficient !

Ok let’s stop coding manually

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A scientist!

I have a dream…

Make it a reality !

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About numerical Python libs ?

Glups…

Numerical Python libraries are widely used and powerful

Jython isn’t able to run them

How to find an easy but good way to exchange data ?

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NatTable is cool, but about plots?

Glups again…

Needs for plotting tools are generics but no project exists to answer this problem

Re-developing a plotting workbench is too expensive

Solution can be partnership with IWG members

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Conclusion: Eclipse for design office June 2014 How to make Airbus engineers' life better with Eclipse - EclipseCon FR 2014

Simplicity Speed

Agility

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Any question ?

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