Eclipse Technology Research Articles

An environment for didactics for first level university courses based on Eclipse technology

The introduction of CFU’s into the national university system has imposed a strong acceleration to the creation and to the use of authorized capital to be shared between students and teachers. A social software is likewise wished for and the debate on the use of tools web 2.0 is extremely important. The study shows a heterogeneous environment which hosts a social architecture able to provide one of the first answers to this new requirement. The software is at present being used at the DIS laboratories of the Engineering Faculty of the Federico II University, and is at the moment undergoing a trial period.

Towards Graph Transformation Based Generation of Visual Editors Using Eclipse

This work discusses the state-of-the-art of visual editor generation based on graph transformation concepts on one hand, and using the Eclipse technology which includes the Graphical Editor Framework (GEF), on the other hand. Due to existing shortcomings in both approaches, we present a combined approach for a tool environment that allows to generate a GEF-based editor from a formal, graph-transformation based visual language specification.

Visualizing Flow Diagrams in WebSphere Studio Using SHriMP Views

This paper describes the integration of an information visualization tool, called SHriMP Views, with IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition, which was developed with Eclipse technology. Although SHriMP was originally developed for visualizing programs, it is content-independent. We have re-targeted SHriMP for visualizing flow diagrams. Flow diagrams, as supported by WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition, can be hierarchically composed, thus leveraging the key features of SHriMP that allow a user to easily navigate hierarchically composed information spaces. We discuss the differences between programs and flow diagrams, in terms of their semantics and their visual representation. We also report on the main technical challenges we faced, due to the different widget sets used by SHriMP (Swing/AWT) and Eclipse (SWT).