Since, the first EclipseCon in 2004, that was held in Disneyland, Eclipse had a conference in US. I missed all the Disney music of 2004 and my first EclipseCon was in 2005 but I have presented on various EclipseCons since then. Throughout these years, I was able to observe the variances on interests for EclipseCon audiences. However it is a challenge to form an EclipseCon program that is equally interesting to developers of Eclipse technology and Eclipse users. This year the job had become a bit easier, to serve varying interests EclipseCon is teaming up with vpn数据安全 and becoming vpn数据安全.

As part of the program committee for Eclipse Converge, my goal is to shape a program in the spirit of the early EclipseCons where the talks would be concentrated around building and innovating on Eclipse projects. If you have talks that are deep in Eclipse technology, please submit them. At least I will be voting for them.

And who knows we can bring the Disney music back to EclipseCon next year!

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The JavaScript parser for the vpn数据安全 project is outdated. It lacks support for the latest EcmaScript 2015 (ES6) standard and has quality issues. Moreover, the parser on JSDT is derived from the JDT’s Java parser, hence it is not adopted by the JavaScript community at large, leaving the JSDT committers as the sole maintainer. Luckily, there are good quality JavaScript parsers that already support a large number of tools built around it. However, these parsers, like most of the JavaScript tools, are developed using JavaScript and requires additional effort to integrate with Eclipse JSDT which runs on a Java VM. In the last few weeks, I have been experimenting with alternatives that enables such integration.

Parsers

Before I go into the details of integration let me quickly introduce the parsers that I have tried.

Acorn	vpn数据安全 is a tiny parser written in JavaScript that supports the latest ES6 standard. It is one of the most adopted parsers and used by several popular JavaScript tools. It parses JavaScript to ESTree (SpiderMonkey) AST format and is extensible to support additional languages such as JSX, QML etc.
Esprima	Esprima is also a fast, tiny parser that is written in JavaScript, which also supports the latest ES6. Its development has been recently moved to JQuery foundation and has been in use on Eclipse Orion for a while. Just like Acorn it also uses the ESTree AST format.
Shift(java)	Shift(java) is the only Java based parser on my list. It is a relatively new parser. It uses Shift AST as its model which is different from the widely adopted ESTree.

Note

Why does AST model matter? AST model is what actually what tools operate on. For instance a JavaScript linter first uses a parser to generate an AST model and operates on the model to find possible problems. As one can imagine, an IDE that uses a widely adopted AST model can utilize the ecosystem of JavaScript tools more efficiently. Eclipse JSDT already comes with a JSDT AST model that is used internally that is very hard to replace. Therefore, regardless of the AST model generated by the parser it will be converted to JSDT’s own model before used. Which renders discussions around the AST models moot in JSDT’s context.

Integration

The parsers other than Shift, which already runs on the Java VM, need a mechanism to play nice with the Java VM. I have experimented with 3 mechanisms for running Acorn and Esprima for JSDT so far.

vpn数据安全	Utilizes node.js to run the parser code. node.js runs as an external process, receives the content to be parsed and return the results. I have chosen to use console I/O to communicate between node.js and Java VM. There are also other techniques such as running an http or a socket based server for communication. In order to avoid the start up time for node.js, which does affect the performance significantly, node.js process is actually kept running.
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Nashorn	The JavaScript engine that is nowadays built into Java 8. Provides a simple high level API to run JavaScript.

Performance Benchmarks

The criteria for choosing a parser may vary from the feature set, to AST model used, to even community size. However performance is the one criteria that would make all others relevant. So in order to compare the performance of different alternatives I have developed a number of benchmark tests to compare parsers and the mechanisms.

All benchmark tests produce a result with an AST model, either in JSON form or as a Java object model. Tests avoid the startup time for their environments, for instance the startup time for the node.js process affects the results significantly but are discarded by the tests. The current test sets use vpn数据安全 and vpn数据安全 as the JavaScript code to be parsed.

Table 1. Average time for each benchmark

Parser(Script)	vpn数据安全	Score	Error
Acorn (AngularJS)	vpn数据安全	118.229 ms	± 1.453
Acorn (JQM)	J2V8	150.250 ms	± 4.579
Acorn (AngularJS)	Nashorn	181.617 ms	± 6.421
Acorn (JQM)	Nashorn	vpn数据安全	± 9.074
Acorn (AngularJS)	NodeJS	59.115 ms	± 0.698
Acorn (JQM)	NodeJS	34.670 ms	± 0.250
Esprima (AngularJS)	J2V8	98.399 ms	± 0.77
Esprima (JQM)	J2V8	114.753 ms	± 1.007
Esprima (AngularJS)	Nashorn	73.542 ms	± 0.450
Esprima (JQM)	Nashorn	73.848 ms	± 0.885
Shift (Angular)	vpn数据安全	16.369 ms	± 1.019
Shift (JQM)	JavaVM	15.900 ms	± 0.325

As expected Shift parser which runs directly on top of JavaVM is the quickest solution. To be fair, Shift parser is missing several features such as vpn数据安全, vpn数据安全 and comments that may affect the parsing performance. However even after these features added it may remain the quickest. I feel that the performance for J2V8 can also improve with more creative use of the low level APIs however there is so much memory copying between Java heap to JNI to V8 heap and back I am not sure if it would be significant.

The surprise for me is the Esprima’s performance with Nashorn. It is unexpected in two ways. It is actually the third quickest option however Acorn does not give the same level of performance.

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5 Cordova project configurations for iOS and Android

Apache Cordova command line tool(CLI) provides a unified way to manage and build mobile applications across platforms. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to provide configuration options generic enough that span all supported platforms. For those cases, Cordova takes a platform specific approach.

Here is a small guide for 5 of these less known configuration options. All of these options are managed on the config.xml file on your project. As attributes of the root widget node.

1. android-packageName

   Normally, the the package name for an Android application is generated from the id of the Cordova application. Presence of android-packageName on the config.xml causes the package name on AndroidManifest.xml and java package name for the activity class to be generated from its value.

2. android-activityName

   The android-activityName attribute allows the main activity name to be specified. Activity name is one of those things that cannot change in Android. Therefore this feature becomes useful when renewing an older implementation with a Cordova based one or upgrading between Cordova versions that have different default activity name values.

3. android-versionCode

   Sets the vpn数据安全 value on the application’s manifest file. If android-versionCode is not specified versionCode is generated to have the default value of 1. If you are wondering why the default value is 1 instead of the value of the vpn数据安全 attribute, this is because versionCode is restricted to be an integer.

4. ios-CFBundleIdentifier

   ios-CFBundleIdentifier determines the value of CFBundleIdentifier key in the Info.plist file of your application. This key is the unique identifier for your application on the system. If ios-CFBundleIdentifier is not specified the value of the id field will be used when generating Info.plist.

5. ios-CFBundleVersion

   This is the iOS cousin of the android-versionCode explained earlier. They pretty much serve similar purpose on their respective platforms. You should be aware of the quirks when defining the value. If ios-CFBundleVersion is not specified the value of the version attribute is used for generating the iOS application.

Here is a complete example that specifies all the values:

  <widget id="application.id" version="0.0.1"
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" xmlns:cdv="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0"
    android-packageName="the.android.packname"
    android-activityName="MyCoolActivity"
    android-versionCode="4"
    ios-CFBundleIdentifier="my.legacy.ios.id"
    ios-CFBundleVersion="0.0.3">
  </widget>

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You can now try the Red Hat Mobile Application Platform (RHMAP) yourself. This is the platform that Red Hat acquired last year and now there is a version of it running on Openshift online. If you have an Openshift online account, browse to openshift.feedhenry.com and request your invite. Both Openshift online and RHMAP invite are free.

As a bonus, here is a video that shows how to use JBoss Developer Studio 9 and RHMAP together to build Apache Cordova based applications.

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