Michael Schneider works as Software Engineer at IBM Rational Research GmbH in Zurich, where he leads the development of planning tools for agile teams. His interests include developing complex Eclipse and Web applications, their architecture as well as the tooling that helps implement them. He implemented and delivered solutions to share code between these two platforms while maintaining their unique characteristics.

LOCATION: Zürich
KEYWORDS: Technology

SPEAKER: Michael Schneider   COMPANY: IBM Rational Research GmbH

This talk presents a JavaScript execution engine that allows seamless integration of Dojo-flavored JavaScript code in an OSGi based Java runtime. Doing so allows sharing JavaScript code between Web and Eclipse applications, while still providing distinctive user interfaces using HTML and SWT, respectively. As this technology is already deployed in the latest releases of Rational Team Concert, experiences using this approach are shared.

Additionally, a novel approach to develop and evolve large Dojo-based Web 2.0 applications, called JDojo, is introduced. It brings the Eclipse JDT tooling to the JavaScript language to provide typed API, compile time error checking, refactorings and much more, by using the Java syntax. However, in contrast to other approaches, its design is built around the JavaScript language rather than the JDK. It comes with built-in support for interacting with existing JavaScript code. JDojo works perfectly with the JavaScript engine, thus simplifying the development of Web and Eclipse Applications even more.

Der Vortrag wird auf Deutsch gehalten, auch wenn Ausschreibung und Folien in Englisch sind.

Michael Schneider works as Software Engineer at IBM Rational Research GmbH in Zurich, where he leads the development of planning tools for agile teams. His interests include developing complex Eclipse and Web applications, their architecture as well as the tooling that helps implement them. He implemented and delivered solutions to share code between these two platforms while maintaining their unique characteristics.

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