PerConIK Eclipse Integration

A collection of Eclipse features and plug-ins to track user activity in Java IDE pertaining to PerConIK research project

• Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
• Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies
• PerConIK Project Site

Minimal

• Java Platform SE 7
• Eclipse Platform 4.3
• Eclipse Java Development Tools 3.8
• Eclipse EGit 2.2

Optional

• Elasticsearch 1.5
• User Activity Central Application 2.0
• Internet connection

Quick Installation Guide

Eclipse → Help → Install New Software... → Available Software Sites → Add

Name

PerConIK Eclipse Integration

Location

http://perconik.github.io/update/repository

Full Installation Guide

1. Add Eclipse Plug-in Update Site (see Quick Installation Guide above)
2. Go to Help → Install New Software...
3. Select PerConIK Update Site - http://perconik.github.io/update/repository in the Work with field
4. Check PerConIK Eclipse Installation and proceed with Next
5. Accept the terms of license agreement and Finish the installation
6. Plug-ins are not digitally signed, go ahead and install anyway
7. Restart Eclipse when prompted

Note on Updates

Installed plug-ins can be easily updated via:

Eclipse → Help → Install New Software... or Eclipse → Help → Check for Updates

Update steps are in fact the same as installation steps above.

Eclipse → Window → Preferences → PerConIK

Activity

Configuration of activity listeners

Elasticsearch

Communication with Elasticsearch

Listeners

Management of listeners

Resources

Management of resources

Services

Management of services

UACA

Communication with UACA

Documents

• Documentation of activity listeners introducing basic mechanics and structurally describing listeners, reflects project status at release v0.30.0
• Analysis of selected components describing model diagrams and applied design patterns, reflects project status at legacy release 0.1.12-core

Presentations

• Project overview and features presentation introducing plug-in core features alonside inner workings, reflects project status at legacy release 0.1.5-core

Javadocs

• Collected user activity data are partially documented in respective listeners, see ActivityListener and IdeListener along with known subclasses for more details.
• Almost all of plug-in's core source code is well documented, see plug-in Javadocs for more details.

Examples

• Examples of extended Java DOM API usage.

Activities

Make sure proper listeners are active (see preferences) and then just work in Eclipse as always.