Do you want to learn how to implement diagram editors using Eclipse GLSP? Then please read on. We have just published a first beta version of a fully interactive tutorial demonstrating the basic steps on how to implement a web-based diagram editor with GLSP! For the impatient: If you directly want to try the tutorial, visit the Eclipse GLSP Tutorial repository ...
Read MoreWe are happy to announce the beta 2 release of Eclipse Theia Blueprint. Theia Blueprint is a template application allowing you to easily consume and evaluate Theia. It’s shipped as a downloadable installer. It is also designed to be a blueprint for building your own custom applications baked on Theia. Please see this article for more information and this page for the download links. The new...
Read MoreDo you want to build a domain-specific tool running in the browser? Do you require features such as form-based editors, tree views, graphical editors, model comparison, model validation, model analysis or even code generation? Then read on. Maximilian recently gave a talk as part of the Eclipse Cloud Tools Time webinar series about how to build domain-specific tools in the web using Eclipse technologies such as...
Read MoreIn this article, we provide a guideline on how to approach a migration of existing desktop Eclipse plugins to Eclipse Theia or VS Code. We focus on providing an overview about the most important technology and architecture decisions. Before you scroll down to find the single “migrate” button to press: Migrating an Eclipse plugin to a web-based platform such as Eclipse Theia or VS Code is...
Read MoreDo you want to implement a diagram editor to be embedded into VS Code, Eclipse Theia, a website or any other tool like Eclipse desktop? Then watch the video below! Philip recently presented Eclipse GLSP at the Eclipse Cloud Tools Time webinar series. The talk provides a nice overview of the motivation, concepts and capabilities of GLSP. This includes diagram editor features, integration with an underlying...
Read MoreDo you want to extend VS Code with a custom diagram editor? In this article we will introduce you to Eclipse GLSP, an open source framework to efficiently implement powerful diagram editors directly embedded into VS Code (via an extension). As the name suggests, it works very similar to the language server protocol (LSP), but for graphical diagram editors. VS Code is famous for being a...
Read MoreDo you want a workspace management server for your cloud development environment such as Eclipse Che, but also require a custom dashboard? Do you want to integrate user features, such as the creation of workspaces into your existing web presence? Then read on. Eclipse Che actually provides the essential features of cloud workspace management via a headless API. In this article we introduce “Che Zero”,...
Read MoreDo you want to build a domain-specific tool running in the browser? Do you require features such as form-based editors, tree views, graphical editors, model comparison, model validation, model analysis or even code generation? Then read on. Maximilian recently gave a talk as part of the Eclipse Cloud Tools Time webinar series about how to build web-based modeling tools and domain-specific tools using EMF.cloud, Eclipse GLSP...
Read MoreIf you develop a custom web-based tool or an IDE extension these days, you might wonder whether to go for a VS Code extension or whether to use Eclipse Theia extensions. In this article we provide a quick guideline and a simple decision tree on how to decide between developing a VS Code extension vs developing a Theia extension for particular use cases. Please note...
Read MoreIn this article, we introduce a minimal example for a diagram editor developed with Eclipse Graphical Language Server Platform (GLSP). GLSP is an open source framework to efficiently implement web-based diagrams. These diagrams can be used stand-alone (on a web page) or embedded into an IDE, such as VS Code, Eclipse Theia or Eclipse (see here). To get a basic understanding about the framework, GLSP provides...
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