The show is over …

With a crowd of almost 200 attendees, many cool demos and the right weather for beer and pretzels… this was not only one of the biggest DemoCamps ever, it also was a lot of fun!

First I’d thank all the other speakers for their great contributions:

1. Hervé Couturier (SAP AG): Welcome
2. Ralph Mueller (Eclipse Foundation): Welcome
3. Krum Tsvetkov (SAP AG), Benjamin Muskalla (EclipseSource): Memory Analyzer & RAP – Single Sourcing in Practice (Demo Slides)
4. Michael Scharf (Wind River): A new View on Tables — a flexible framework to show tabular data in SWT Tables and Trees
5. Achim Demelt (eXXcellent solutions): Modeling is fun!
6. Jochen Hiller (Deutsche Telekom AG): Dynamic OSGi application using Equinox
7. Elmar Eperiesi-Beck (CORISECIO): Equinox based SOA Security Framework – a future Eclipse Project
8. Gunnar Wagenknecht (AGETO): Equinox on Servers – An introduction to the Eclipse Gyrex project
9. Marcus Harringer (MicroDoc GmbH): Virtual Embedded Devices with OSGi, Eclipse and Flash
10. Guy Philipp Bollbach (itemis): TMF Xtext: a self-experiment

During the evening, many photos were taken and some of the talks were even recorded on video.

The demo camp was introduced by Hervé Couturier and Ralph Mueller. They talked about SAP’s commitments to the Eclipse community and the growing level of participation.

After the introduction, Krum Tsvetkov gave a quick overview of the Eclipse Memory analyzer (MAT) and how you can use it to find memory leaks within 5 minutes. After the crowd understood what MAT is, I showed them how easy it is to have the same application running in the web by exchanging the runtime. Most of the people were quite impressed and it reminded me of what Chris once said: “Cool, one runtime to rule them all”. I’ll blog about the results of single sourcing MAT in the upcoming days so – in the meantime you can watch our talk.

Next Michael Scharf showed a small framework for handling tabular data on top of the existing JFace infrastructure that uses a columns-based approach instead of the existing row-based one. I hope they will consider contributing it to the community!

Achim Demelt gave us a fuzzy warm feelings about modeling with his demo “Modeling is fun!” He showed us some cool extensions to graphical editors like content assistance and compile/generate on save.

After a short break, Jochen Hiller showed us the power of dynamic OSGi systems. He did a demo on how to run some bundles and use several different bundle versions in parallel.

Elmar Eperiesi-Beck showed us a possible future Eclipse project – an Equinox based SOA Security Framework. He demonstrated how to secure a SOA application. With this approach he mentioned several times that Corisecio wants to contribute this project back to the Eclipse ecosystem (hope to see the proposal soon).

One new Eclipse project demonstrated was Gyrex. Gunnar gave us a quick introduction of the project. Gyrex provides a set of frameworks and tools around Equinox to allow seamless and pain-free operation of Equinox server clusters. Sounds pretty cool but we still need to “Stay tuned… they are working on an example for you to play with”.

Marcus Harringer of MicroDoc showed us an example of how to combine some of the cool kids of todays technology stack. They emulated real world devices like a turnstile with the help of Equinox and Flash for the client side. They used the emulation to write test scripts to create functional tests for their software implementions of the devices. Pretty cool demo on combining different technologies to solve real world problems.

The last but not least speaker was Guy Philipp Bollbach of itemis talking about Xtext. I think Xtext is one of the really cool technologies we have today. It helps you to write a grammar for your own DSL and let Xtext generate the whole stack of editors, outline views and other things like content assist for your DSL.  Really impressive!

All in all it was a really nice evening – most of the people I talked to had a great evening and learned about many cool Eclipse technologies. Most of the attendees enjoyed the democamp as much as I did. I hope to see some of you at the next DemoCamp or at a Stammtisch.

And as always – the Twitter community was very active during the DemoCamp – see all the related tweets @eventtrack.

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• Eclipse Vienna DemoCamp 2009
• Helios DemoCamp Darmstadt review
• Reminder: Eclipse Vienna DemoCamp
• RAP at a DemoCamp near you?
• Portland Galileo DemoCamp – ECF slides

Tags: democamp, eclipse, equinox, galileo, modeling, OSGi, rap, xtext