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Emerging Technologies Explorer
An Eclipse perspective and collection of views that facilitates access to technologies in the Emerging Technologies Toolkit (ETTK). (This is an ETTK Technology.)
Date Posted: June 9, 2005
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What is Emerging Technologies Explorer?
The Emerging Technologies Explorer supplies a user interface for consolidating ETTK (Emerging Technologies Toolkit) packages within the Eclipse IDE. It provides easy navigation to tools, documentation, demos, and communities for the various ETTK technologies. In addition, it facilitates easy installation for integrated Eclipse-based ETTK technologies. An RSS reader is also embedded, allowing easy access to ETTK-related RSS feeds and feeds from alphaWorks, developerWorks, and others.
The Emerging Technologies Explorer is part of the Emerging Technologies Toolkit (ETTK), a special collection of emerging technologies from IBM's software development and research labs. This technology runs on Linux® and Windows® (please see the Requirements section for details).
How does it work? This technology facilitates the easy exploration and installation of integrated, Eclipse-based member technologies by taking advantage of the strengths of the Eclipse platform in a way previously unavailable from alphaWorks. The user is presented with a tree view categorized by technology type; this perspective contains an index of locally installed Technology Explorer-enabled technologies or installable Eclipse-based technologies, along with remotely available technology resources for all ETTK member technologies. Companion views allow the user to explore the listed technologies and their online resources.
If users choose to run a technology that is not installed, hooks have been provided that prompt users to ask if they would like to install it. If they select yes, the Eclipse Update Manager is invoked to directly install the targeted alphaWorks technology into the user's IDE via a new Eclipse Update Server. Other facilities such as an RSS reader view are also available for facilitating exploration of various ETTK-related blogs and content areas.
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John Gerken is a member of IBM's Emerging Technologies Software Group, which focuses on the investigation and prototyping of pre-emerging software technologies. Formally the leader of the Emerging Technologies Toolkit for Web Services and Autonomic Computing development team, Mr. Gerken has recently moved on to build toolkits for new emerging technologies under development.
James Snell is a member of IBM's Software Standards Strategy Group, which focuses on the prototype development of pre-emerging software technologies and standards. He is currently a member of the Emerging Technologies Toolkit for Web Services and Autonomic Computing development team. Mr. Snell has made significant direct and indirect contributions to nearly every aspect of IBM's Web services and Service-Oriented Architecture strategy, as well as serving as a strong advocate for the practical application of key emerging technologies within and across IBM's own lines of business.
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