the open-source eclipse plugin for force.com development, summer ‘14

Open-Source Eclipse PluginAugust 28, 2014

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Speakers

Josh KaplanProduct Manager@joshsfdc

Nick ChenDeveloper@vazexqi

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Agenda

The New Eclipse Plugin

The Different Versions

Doing Your Own Updates

Getting Your Updates Incorporated

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The New Eclipse Plugin

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Plugin History

Original Plugin– Authored in 2007 (!)

– Utilized Metadata API

– Proprietary parser

– Works with Eclipse 3.6

Tooling API & Developer Console

Plugin Update– Eclipse 4.3, Java 7

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In With The New

Few Modifications– Tooling API

– New Parser

– Silly Fixes

Open Source– Github repository

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The Different Versions

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What Could I Install?

Currently Supported Release– IDE Install Page, developer.salesforce.com

Work-in-progress Version– Master branch in Github

– Will become Currently Supported Release

Previously Supported Releases

Other Versions??

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Making Your Own Changes

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Overview of typical workflow

Fork the forcedotcom/idecore repository

Set up your workspace followingforcedotcom/idecore/wiki/Getting-Started

Find (or create) an issue on forcedotcom/idecore/issues

Work on issue and test your changes

Submit a pull request

Under the hood

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Partner WSDL

Metadata WSDL

Tooling WSDL

Apex WSDL

Editors Build Views …Apex Deploy Exec Anon

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Configuration files– plugin.xml

– manifest.mf

– build.properties

Configuration files– core-application-

context.xml• aspects.xml

• components.xml

• plugin-contributions.xml

• services.xml

• static-content.xml

Let’s make a change

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Testing The Plugin Unit Tests

– Run on your org(s)

– Run on a trial org

Org Builder– Currently internal to Salesforce

– Eventually available to you

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Getting Your Updates Incorporated

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Branches, Forks, and Commits (oh, my!)

Master Fork

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What Can I Do? Bug Fixes

Minor Features

Feature Enhancements

Big Features

Submit ideas (…and then implement them!)

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What Will Be Accepted? Bug Fixes

Minor Features

Features Already On Our Backlog

CLA – Contributor License Agreement

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Community Version Unsupervised branch

A home for items not in master

Super-set of supported functionality

Select which features you want and / or trust

(Note: this does NOT exist yet!)

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The Plugin Now Belongs To Everyone

You are hereby challenged…

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Q & A

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Josh KaplanProduct Manager@joshsfdc

Nick ChenDeveloper@vazexqi

https://github.com/forcedotcom/idecore/wiki/Getting-Started