The Open-source Eclipse Plugin for Force.com Development, Summer ‘14
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The document discusses the new open-source Eclipse plugin for Salesforce development. It describes the history of the original plugin and reasons for updating it, including using the Tooling API and open sourcing the code. Developers can now contribute changes by forking the project repository on GitHub and submitting pull requests. The document reviews the different available versions and outlines the process for testing changes locally and getting updates incorporated into the main branch.
The Open-source Eclipse Plugin for Force.com Development, Summer ‘14
- 1. Open-Source Eclipse Plugin August 28, 2014
- 2. #forcewebinar Speakers Josh Kaplan Product Manager @joshsfdc Nick Chen Developer @vazexqi
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- 6. Agenda The New Eclipse Plugin The Different Versions Doing Your Own Updates Getting Your Updates Incorporated #forcewebinar
- 7. #forcewebinar The New Eclipse Plugin
- 8. 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 #forcewebinar
- 9. In With The New Few Modifications – Tooling API – New Parser – Silly Fixes Open Source – Github repository #forcewebinar
- 10. #forcewebinar The Different Versions
- 11. 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?? #forcewebinar
- 12. Making Your Own Changes #forcewebinar
- 13. 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 #forcewebinar
- 14. Under the hood
- 15. Partner WSDL Apex Deploy Exec Anon #forcewebinar Metadata WSDL Tooling WSDL Apex WSDL Editors Build Views …
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- 17. Configuration files – plugin.xml – manifest.mf – build.properties #forcewebinar Configuration files – core-application-context.xml • aspects.xml • components.xml • plugin-contributions.xml • services.xml • static-content.xml
- 18. Let’s make a change
- 19. 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 #forcewebinar
- 20. Getting Your Updates Incorporated #forcewebinar
- 21. Branches, Forks, and Commits (oh, my!) #forcewebinar Master Fork P
- 22. What Can I Do? Bug Fixes Minor Features Feature Enhancements Big Features Submit ideas (…and then implement them!) #forcewebinar
- 23. What Will Be Accepted? Bug Fixes Minor Features Features Already On Our Backlog CLA – Contributor License Agreement #forcewebinar
- 24. 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!) #forcewebinar
- 25. The Plugin Now Belongs To Everyone You are hereby challenged… Salesforce will continue to do its part Together we can do more! #forcewebinar
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- 29. #forcewebinar Q & A Josh Kaplan Product Manager @joshsfdc Nick Chen Developer @vazexqi https://github.com/forcedotcom/idecore/wiki/Getting-Started