I was really impressed with the quality of the tutorials - I attended tutorials on SWTBot, serverside Eclipse, and advanced RCP all of which worked flawlessly and were timed very well. (Finally I have some idea how p2 works!) Since we will be giving a tutorial on SBSI at the upcoming ICSB in October 2010 I got some great ideas, such as providing 'sync points' of downloads of the tutorial at various stages, so that people can catch up, or just start from a point they're interested in. Also the use of EtherPad to keep track of questions and issues arising.
As an Eclipse RCP developer, it was great to see a new SWT-native scientific charting library presented, called SWT XY Graph. Currently we have come across two choices - BIRT chart designer ( which pulls in a lot of other plugins and can bloat a small application) or JFreeChart via an SWT-AWT bridge ( which works quite well but can be a little unresponsive at times). So this new plugin could be a very welcome alternative.
Another new project which look interesting is Graphiti, which aims to provide rapid development of GEF based editors. The first release should be in June.
The HPC world is being included in the Eclipse community now - the
Parallel Tools Platform aims to provide static analysis and debugging facilities, and a world class IDE for developers writing applications for HPC
It was also good to come across a smattering of life sciences people at EclipseCon, who either attended my talk or congregated around Ola Spjuth's Bioclipse poster. It will be fun to try to collaborate to make Eclipse plugins for biology more interoperable and expand the potential scope for users.
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