At Microsoft, our developer mission is to deliver experiences that empower any developer, building any application, on any OS. And this mission requires us to be open, flexible, and interoperable: to meet developers and development teams where they are, and provide tools, services and platforms that help them take ideas into production.
This week, we’re attending EclipseCon to connect and advance our vision with the Eclipse community. We recognize the great work coming out of the Eclipse and Java developer community and appreciate that Eclipse developer tools are used by millions of developers worldwide. We have worked with the Eclipse Foundation for many years to improve the Java experience across our portfolio of application platform and development services, including Visual Studio Team Services and Microsoft Azure.
Today, I’m happy to share that Microsoft is taking its relationship with the Eclipse community to the next level by joining the Eclipse Foundation as a Solutions Member. Joining the Eclipse Foundation enables us to collaborate more closely with the Eclipse community, deliver a great set of tools and services for all development teams, and continuously improve our cloud services, SDKs and tools.
Microsoft delivers a number of Eclipse-based tools today. The Azure Toolkit for Eclipse and Java SDK for Azure enables Eclipse users to build cloud applications. And with the free Team Explorer Everywhere plugin, developers have access to the full suite of source control, team services, and DevOps capabilities of Visual Studio Team Services from within their IDE. These offerings will continue to be maintained and shared through the Eclipse Marketplace
Additionally, I was honored to join Tyler Jewell, of Codenvy, onstage today to announce new Azure and Visual Studio Team Services interoperability with Codenvy’s workspace automation tools, built on Eclipse Che. With Visual Studio Team Services, Azure, and Codenvy, software development teams can collaborate more easily than ever before. Codenvy’s new Visual Studio Team Services extension activates Codenvy workspaces on-demand from within Microsoft’s tools, creating a natural workflow that aligns with agile methodologies and principles. The Azure VM Marketplace now includes a virtual machine preconfigured with Codenvy, so developers can instantly provision private Codenvy workspaces on Azure.
We’re also announcing more tools and services specifically for Java and Eclipse developers that provide powerful development solutions and services that span platforms.
- We are open sourcing the Team Explorer Everywhere Plugin for Eclipse on GitHub today, so we can develop it together with the Eclipse community.
- Azure IoT Suite support in Kura. We will contribute an Azure IoT Hub Connector to Kura that will allow to easily connect gateways running Kura to Azure IoT Suite.
- Azure Java WebApp support in the Azure Toolkit for Eclipse, which makes it easy to take a Java web app and have it running in Azure within seconds
- A refreshed and updated Azure Java Dev Center
- With the Java Tools Challenge, we are inviting Java developers to build apps and extensions for VSTS.
In addition to participating in the keynote, we will have a booth onsite and hold two sessions at the event. EclipseCon Sessions:
The Internet of Unexpected Things, by Olivier Bloch, Senior Program Manager, Azure IoT
Connecting to the cloud many different devices of various form factors, powered by eclectic platforms running apps developed in random languages to build an advanced end-to-end IoT solution seems (and often is) as complicated as this sentence is long… Let’s take a look at how it’s done with Azure IoT services, device SDKs and tools in a demo-heavy session for developers. From sensors to advanced analytics, you’ll discover how to take advantage of the open source SDKs and tools that make it easy to connect devices to capture and analyze untapped data as well as monitor and control your IoT infrastructure.
Integrating Different IDEs with a Common Set of Developer Services, Dave Staheli, Software Engineering Manager, Visual Studio Team Services
Modern applications require varied tools and languages to address multiple platforms and form factors. Often, different tools are used by teams to plan, code, build, track, test, deploy, and monitor. How can these activities be normalized to reduce team friction? This session details an approach Microsoft is taking to plugin development. By building plugins for different IDEs that integrate with a common set of team services, developers can use diverse tools to participate in the same team activities. We’ll share experiences in reusing code across plugins for different IDEs, give demos with Eclipse, IntelliJ, and Visual Studio, and discuss technologies on the brink of making this even easier.
Our announcements today further strengthen our investment in cross-platform development. And our membership in the Eclipse Foundation formally recognizes our to Eclipse and Java developers. We’re looking forward doing more with the Eclipse community going forward. If you have ideas or feedback, I’d encourage you to please share with us through our Visual Studio UserVoice Site.
Thank you!
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Shanku Niyogi, General Manager, Visual Studio Team @shankuniyogi Shanku has been at Microsoft since 1998, and has spent most of that time on developer tools and runtimes. Shanku currently leads the Open Tools group, which is responsible for the new cross-platform Visual Studio Code product, Microsoft’s tools for Node.js, and a number of Microsoft’s other tools outside the Visual Studio IDE |
Excellent. This is the type of strategy and efforts required to increase adoption and MSFT relevance in the developer marketplace. Visual Studio is indeed the premiere tooling system in the developer ecosystem. Very welcomed and exciting news!
Great post Shanku and welcome to the Eclipse Foundation! If anyone would like to try Codenvy with VSTS you can:
1) Grab Codenvy from our site: https://codenvy.com/contact/trial-request/
2) Install the Codenvy VSTS extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=codenvy.codenvy-extension
Brad — Codenvy
Of course you can replace step #1 with just grabbing the Codenvy VM from the Azure marketplace: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/partners/codenvy/codenvy-on-prem/
> We are open sourcing the Team Explorer Everywhere Plugin for Eclipse
Does this mean that the data services (web services) in TFS will also be maintained as public endpoints with supported contracts, including integration use cases? Some work I’d done a few years ago would be very happy if that is to be the case 🙂
Brilliant
This is the new Cross-Platform Microsoft.
Go Satya Go!
Go Open Microsoft Go!
Fuck Microsoft, jump out of the Linux world with its source tools closed. You hate Linux, then look for other means of earning money.
Same 2 You !!!
Fantastic. Microsoft, you’ve been on fire since Mr. Satya Nadella took the helm as CEO.
Good news for everyone!
Eclipse… MS SQL Server.. ? Please do something with Skype on Linux first!
Who cares about Linux anymore…
Adding Codenvy into the mix is a huge step and sure to help developers get up and running faster, and easier. I amazed at how easy it is to take a Dev environment and share it with a link. Huge step for online browser based development at the enterprise level.
Thanks Shanku!
Awesome! Its a great news, does this mean we can get Eclipse extensions in Visual Studio?
I’m still circumspect. Embrace, extend and extinguish all over again maybe?
For the younger, less knowledgeable of MS’s history, embrace, extend and extinguish was a phrase commonly used to describe MS’s strategy to attack open, standards-based products: get involved in their development, add custom, non-standard, not open extensions, up to the point where these become the standard to which competitors cannot align (due to their closed nature) – either transforming the product into a MS-proprietary product or killing it altogether.
More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
I think time will tell.
This is terrible news and I hope the open source community is ready to defend it’s model from corporate take-over. Microsoft is basically a “pirate” organization, software they produce sucks by market standards, their model is to rape, pillage and steal technology then integrate it into the borg model for their capitalistic gain. They tried to steal java and make it proprietary to MS but were taken to court and beaten by SUN Founder Scott McNealy. The founder and current leadership of MS are some of the most despicable people in IT, much less any industry today.
I think in recent years we’re seeing a new approach from microsoft, that cannot be attributed to the EEE strategy we’ve seen under Balmer and Gates in the 1990’s (and I’m old enough to have witnessed it at the time). They never open-sourced so many of their products. They never contributed code to existing OS projects. They never joined OS organizations such as the Eclipse or Apache foundations. This is not EEE.
If you look at what MS is doing with HTML5 and Javascript, you can see that they embrace them, but don’t extend them. The new Edge browser throws away their ActiveX technology, which was a core part of the EEE strategy.
To me this looks like a real change. I hope I’m right.
Do you really believe that the Shark becomes vegetarian?
No. But I believe the human does.
Silly Anjov.
Microsoft is really doing a great job in embracing open source and cross platform (not to mention all the collaborations).
Very cool! Looking forward to see.NET-IDE-, Active Directory-, Exchange-, Sharepoint-, Azure- …. Plugins
I understand that you want to boost your cloud services alright…
I hope that you REALLY make much money out of it, because otherwise I really don’t see why you would even try to do things like these.
I mean, I have forced myself many times to use that thing called an IDE (Eclipse) and I couldn’t stop myself hating it.
And I am open-minded even for things like Vim…
I am amazed that there are people out there that use it.
I hope you don’t get too familiar with it and try to import “features” (aka nonsensical UX and logic) that it has into Visual Studio, because then I will hate you too…
In the meanwhile, your apps like Skype, Office, etc tend to work better on foreign platforms rather than your own, which is suicidal, stupid and infuriating at the same time…
It would be nice to first try to satisfy your own users and developers and then go and try empower users and developers from other platforms. Just a suggestion…Maybe you do that. I don’t know. I just don’t feel the outcome of those efforts. Maybe you are getting there…
This is the new Microsoft we were all waiting for. 🙂
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Thank you for your information! Can I have a question?
Will Microsoft make some Eclipse plugins that allow Eclipse users to develop .NET Core and ASP.NET Core using Eclipse IDE?
Thank you again!
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