In this article, we compare Eclipse Che with Eclipse Theia and explain their relationship - their differences and their overlap. In fact - spoiler alert - both technologies do combine well and together provide a very powerful stack for cloud-based tooling. So let us start right ahead with the most interesting question: What is the difference between Eclipse Che and Eclipse Theia To answer that question, we...
Read MoreSee you at the Che Conf 2018 The Che Conf 2018 will take place tomorrow, Feb 21st starting at 10 am EST. For Europeans, it is a nice evening event to watch. The good thing about this conference is that it is free to attend and you can join it from your desk or even from your couch.Even more important, it provides interesting content about...
Read MoreIn this blog series, we share our experiences extending Eclipse Che to add EMF support. The first post covers our goals. In the last post, we have focused on how to extend Che by adding a custom plugin. So far, we have registered a file extension for +.ecore files and can control the editor to be opened for this file type. We still can open...
Read MoreIn this blog series, we share our experiences extending Eclipse Che to add EMF support. The first post covered our goals. In previous posts, we describe how to add support for code generation, create a custom stack, and how to build che. It has been quite a while since our last blog, but now we would like to continue with the next step.Our next major...
Read MoreIn this blog series, we share our experiences extending Eclipse Che to add EMF support.. The first post covers our goals. In previous posts, we describe how to add support for code generation and create a custom stack, which provides the framework for code generation out of the box.So far, we have not yet written any code to extend Che. We have used the concept...
Read MoreIn this blog series we share our experiences extending Eclipse Che as well as describe how we have added initial EMF support for the Eclipse Che IDE. Please see the first post in this series for an overview of our goals. In the previous blog post, we described how to add support for code generation by reusing the existing EMF code generator which is bundled...
Read MoreIn this blog series, we share our experience with extending Eclipse Che and describe how we have built initial EMF support for the Eclipse Che IDE. Please see the first post in this series for an overview of our goals. In the last blog post, we described how to create a custom workspace containing a template modeling project. This template provides a fully configured model....
Read MoreIn this blog series, we share our experience with extending Eclipse Che and describe how we have built initial EMF support for the Eclipse Che IDE. In the last blog post, we have described our overall goals and the use case.In this blog post, we describe the first steps in getting started with Che. Before we start to extend Che, let’s run it and see...
Read MoreAt EclipseCon North America 2016, the first public release of Eclipse Che was announced. Almost immediately, there was a new cloud-based IDE in the Eclipse ecosystem. At first glance, it is an IDE running in the browser:However, there is one particular feature, which makes Che interesting: Sharable Workspaces. A “workspace” in Che means the source of a project PLUS the runtime to compile, debug, and...
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