What is Eclipse Che?
- Eclipse Che is a developer workspace server and cloud IDE.
- Codenvy hosts eclipse che workspaces with free accounts. You can simply create a codenvy account and try Eclipse Che. (https://codenvy.com/login/)
- Since Eclipse Che is an open source project you can folk their github repository and start building from the source code. All the required instructions are provided their. (https://github.com/eclipse/che)
- Now you have an idea about what is Eclipse Che and what eclipse che is for? Eclipse che provides a well explained documentation so you can learn anything from the begining 🙂 (https://eclipse-che.readme.io/docs/introduction)
Docker machines
- Docker machine is an an environment is composed of machines powered by Docker or localhost.
- A machine is a runtime whose stack is instantiated by a recipe.
- Docker is a powerful and convenient implementation of machines providing near-instant activation, copy-on-write file system, and Dockerfile recipes for constructing custom stacks. Launch from our provided images, DockerHub, private registries, or through your own Docker files.
- Your projects are mounted into the workspace.
What are we going to do?
- I started my first GSOC (Google Summer Of Code) project this year with Eclipse foundation and I am currently developing a feature for Eclipse Che. If you are interested take a look at my project.(Eclipse CHE: Pair programming with Eclipse Che Cloud IDE) 😀
- During the community bonding period which first thirty days we were supposed work with the community and get in touch with the code base.
- During this time period I had to setup some tools for my local Development IDE which is Eclipse Mars.
- My mentor Mr. Sun Seng David Tan (https://twitter.com/sunsengdavidtan) asked me setup Eclipse Mars inside Eclipse Che so we can share the same IDE.
How I did it?
- Now we all know eclipse work spaces are built on Docker. So we need to configure the docker in order to get this done.
- You can simply go to the workspaces on Eclipse Che and create a new workspace.
- Then go to Custom stack tab.
- There you can write your own stack which will be used as the configuration for your workspace. You can find the docker image from here. (https://hub.docker.com/r/rnavagamuwa/eclipse-che-pair-programming-flux/)
- If you are creating your own docker image simply use this in your Docker file.
Launch Eclipse Mars
- Now everything is done. You only need to launch the ide.
- Go to the cloud IDE and under consoles you can see a small icon called SSH.
- Click on that icon and you will see the instructions. For an example if your get an instruction like this. (Default password will be “secret“)
ssh [email protected] -p 32775 [-i /path/to/your/private/ssh/key]
- You just need to -X eclipse Mars Ide using the following command.
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ssh [email protected] -p 32782 ./eclipse/eclipse -X
That’s it. 🙂 Feel freet to comment if you need to know anything else 😀
This is good for sharing configs but for development it’s always good to use a Cloud IDE(Eclipse Che) instead of Mars due to some reasons such as
- Speed of the data transfer depends on your network connection. 🙁
- This is not supported by windows. 🙁
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