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

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Description: The Force.com IDE for Eclipse has long been a go-to tool for developing applications on the Salesforce platform. As of the Summer ‘14 release, the source for the plug-in has been published, and a new era of open-source collaboration has begun. In this session, you will learn about the open-source process and how you can contribute to the project. You will hear about recent changes made to the plugin prior to the open-source release. We will then walk through the process of making a change: creating a branch, modifying the code, communicating with other collaborators, adding the change to the community branch, and submitting a pull request to the main branch. Key Takeaways: ::Overview of the Force.com plug-in ::Understanding the different versions of the plug-in ::Making changes to the plug-in ::Getting your contributions accepted ::Future of the Force.com IDE Intended Audience: ::Salesforce Developers who want to participate in improving the tool set ::Salesforce Developers who want to understand the new plugin Recommended Resources: https://developer.salesforce.com/en/events/webinars/Open_source_Eclipse_Plugin

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Open-Source Eclipse PluginAugust 28, 2014

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Speakers

Josh KaplanProduct Manager@joshsfdc

Nick ChenDeveloper@vazexqi

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Safe HarborSafe harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995:

This presentation may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. If any such uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions proves incorrect, the results of salesforce.com, inc. could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements we make. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be deemed forward-looking, including any projections of product or service availability, subscriber growth, earnings, revenues, or other financial items and any statements regarding strategies or plans of management for future operations, statements of belief, any statements concerning new, planned, or upgraded services or technology developments and customer contracts or use of our services.

The risks and uncertainties referred to above include – but are not limited to – risks associated with developing and delivering new functionality for our service, new products and services, our new business model, our past operating losses, possible fluctuations in our operating results and rate of growth, interruptions or delays in our Web hosting, breach of our security measures, the outcome of intellectual property and other litigation, risks associated with possible mergers and acquisitions, the immature market in which we operate, our relatively limited operating history, our ability to expand, retain, and motivate our employees and manage our growth, new releases of our service and successful customer deployment, our limited history reselling non-salesforce.com products, and utilization and selling to larger enterprise customers. Further information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of salesforce.com, inc. is included in our annual report on Form 10-Q for the most recent fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2012. This documents and others containing important disclosures are available on the SEC Filings section of the Investor Information section of our Web site.

Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other presentations, press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase our services should make the purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com, inc. assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.

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Go Social!

@salesforcedevs / #forcewebinar

Salesforce Developers

+Salesforce Developers

Salesforce Developers

Salesforce Developers The video will be posted to YouTube & the webinar recap page

(same URL as registration).

This webinar is being recorded!

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Have Questions?

Don’t wait until the end to ask your question! – Technical support will answer questions starting now.

Respect Q&A etiquette– Please don’t repeat questions. The support team is

working their way down the queue.

Stick around for live Q&A at the end– Speakers will tackle more questions at the end, time-

allowing.

Head to Developer Forums– More questions? Visit developer.salesforce.com/forums

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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

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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

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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…

Salesforce will continue to do its part

Together we can do more!

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Don’t Miss Out on Dreamforce 2014!

http://bit.ly/dfweb14

$899 Discount Code:

D14DVLPR

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Developers @ Connections

bit.ly/Devs2Connect14

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Survey

Your feedback is crucial to the successof our webinar programs. Thank you!

http://bit.ly/eclipse14

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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