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http://groovy.codehaus.org/Groovy+Monkey. Groovy Monkey. Java Developer since 1999 Eclipse Plugin Developer since 2002 Groovy Eclipse committer since 2005 Author of Groovy Monkey . About Me. “I am not just the author of Groovy Monkey, - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Groovy Monkey
http://groovy.codehaus.org/Groovy+Monkey
About MeJava Developer since 1999Eclipse Plugin Developer since 2002Groovy Eclipse committer since 2005Author of Groovy Monkey
About Me“I am not just the author of Groovy Monkey,
I'm a user...” -- paraphrased from the founder of “Hair Club for Men”
-- James E. Ervin
Agenda Why Groovy Monkey? What is Groovy Monkey? I'm from Missouri, Show Me.... Anatomy of a script Script Examples ...Batteries Included Future plans Monkey Resources Q&A
Why Groovy Monkey?
To be more productive with Eclipse, thats why.
Why Groovy Monkey? Wanted a tool to facilitate the following:
Eclipse API Exploration Self hosting is too slow and cumbersome Plugin creation is too much overhead for exploration The Eclipse API is complex
Task Automation To add functionality too small to be a plugin
Rapid prototyping with path to a plugin In case the small grows big
Why Groovy Monkey? Found Eclipse Monkey but it was too limiting:
Could only write scripts in ECMAScript (JavaScript) There is a nice library called Bean Scripting
Framework, so why not let everyone play? Everything runs in the UI Thread
Why not use the Eclipse Jobs API? Could only invoke code exposed through a DOM
What about installed bundles? How about adding library jars?
Why Groovy Monkey? I am a power Eclipse User and Plugin
developer and I want my life to be easier: I want to be able to quickly try parts of the
Eclipse API without the overhead of a plugin I want to be able to write quick/reusable
functionality (i.e. task automation) to make my life with Eclipse easier
I want to be able to translate the quick and dirty work eventually into a proper plugin
What is Groovy Monkey? Groovy Monkey is a branch/port of the
Eclipse Monkey tool based on: Apache Bean Scripting Framework The Eclipse Jobs API OSGi framework
What is Groovy Monkey? Bean Scripting framework
http://jakarta.apache.org/bsf/ Monkey predates javax.script in Java 6.0 I don't hate Macintosh people Provides scripting engines for the most used
scripting languages Allows Groovy Monkey scripts to be written in
Groovy, Beanshell and Ruby (soon hopefully Python as well)
What is Groovy Monkey? The Eclipse Jobs API is the native Eclipse
platform support for threading. Allows for three types: Job: Ordinary job thread, provides a progress
monitor and status in the progress view WorkspaceJob: Batches updates to resource
listeners until after the job is complete UIJob: Runs in the SWT UI Thread
What is Groovy Monkey? The OSGi framework packages
components in bundles, which are uniquely identified. Groovy Monkey leverages the OSGi container by: Groovy Monkey can add the classloader of
any bundle on the workbench to a script's classloader
Allows Groovy Monkey to do white box introspection of running bundles/plugins
Show me: How to install If not included in your Eclipse distribution, goto
the update site: http://groovy-monkey.sourceforge.net/update
Show Me: A Script A script has two parts, the metadata and then the script
body. /* * Menu: Open Dialog > Groovy * Script-Path: /EclipseMonkeyScripts/monkey/OpenDialog_Groovy.gm * Kudos: ervinja * License: EPL 1.0 * Job: UIJob */ org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.MessageDialog.openInformation( window.getShell(), 'Monkey Dialog', 'Hello World from Groovy' )
Right click to run the script from within Eclipse
Show Me: A Script: Results The amazing results of this script is:
Drum Roll please......
Note: Wait for enthusiastic applause from audience
Anatomy of a ScriptScript is composed of two parts:Script Metadata Header
This is the portion that is specific to monkey Tags serve to setup classloader and configure
scriptScript Body
Vital obviously, but Monkey delegates this to the BSFEngine for the given language.
Script Anatomy: Tags Menu
Determines where in the Monkey Menu the script can be invoked/edited
Script Anatomy: Tags 'Lang'
The first tag I added to Monkey By default is set to 'Groovy' Valid entries are:
Groovy *(default) Beanshell Ruby Python**
Script Anatomy: Tags Lang cont'd:
Maps to a BSFEngine implementation that is wrapped in an extension point:
net.sf.groovyMonkey.lang List of supported languages is not hardcoded Additional language support can be easily plugged
in if the BSFEngine implementation can be found.
Script Anatomy: Tags Job
The most important part of Groovy Monkey over Eclipse Monkey, running scripts in separate threads.
By default a script is run inside an Eclipse 'Job' Valid Entries:
Job* (default) – org.eclipse.core.runtime.Job WorkspaceJob – org.eclipse.core.resources.WorkspaceJob UIJob - org.eclipse.ui.progress.UIJob
Script Anatomy: Tags Job cont'd
Allows us to bind (more on this under DOMs) a progress monitor to the script
Script writer can provide progress and allow cancellation
Scripts become Eclipse Jobs, which means that they can be monitored in the progress view.
One gotcha, UIJob is provided as a convenience, it is best to use it sparingly
Script Anatomy: Tags Exec-Mode tag:
Complementary to the Job tag Allows jobs to be run the the foreground or in
the background Valid values:
background* (default) foreground – Eclipse pops up a modal dialog box
to show the progress of the script.
Script Anatomy: Tags Include
Allows you to include elements in the workspace in the classloader of the script.
Allows you to try new third party jars immediately and makes Groovy Monkey a more general scripting tool
Can add a jar in the workspace or a class folder Syntax:
* Include: /MonkeyScripts/commons-http-client.jar
Script Anatomy: Tags Include-Bundle
This is what makes Eclipse API exploration and plugin rapid prototyping possible.
You specify the bundle identifier for a bundle loaded in the workbench and its classloader is added to the classloader of the script.
There are a number of bundles included by default* Syntax:
* Include-Bundle: org.eclipse.ui.ide
Script Anatomy: Tags DOM
net.sf.groovyMonkey.dom An extension provided by a bundle, that provides an API
for script writers They get bound to variable names in the script at
runtime. First step from script to full blown bundle. There are a set of DOM(s) included by default Syntax:
* DOM: net.sf.groovyMonkey.dom.console
“Batteries Included”Groovy Monkey includes several things
to hopefully simplify script writing: Default DOM(s) Default Bundles Editor Outline View Sharing
“Batteries Included” Default DOM(s):
“Batteries Included”DOM(s) included by default: bsf: maps to org.apache.bsf.util.BSFFunctions bundleDOM: Access to the bundle and bundles installed in
the workbench bundlerDOM: Utility DOM to allow you to build/package
plugins from your workspace jface: Access to the SWTBuilder in groovy for UI work metadata: Access to the ScriptMetadata instance that
contains the information defined in the metadata header of the script
“Batteries Included”DOM(s) included by default cont'd: monitor: Access to the IProgressMonitor the Script's Job
is using. project: Legacy DOM resources: Legacy DOM runnerDOM: Cool DOM that allows you to invoke other
scripts in the workspace. window: Access to the IWorkspaceWindow in the
current Eclipse workbench. workspace: Access to the IWorkspace instance
representing the current Eclipse workspace.
“Batteries Included” Default Include-Bundles:
“Batteries Included” Groovy Monkey Editor: Code Completion
“Batteries Included” Groovy Monkey Editor: Popup commands
“Batteries Included” Groovy Monkey Outline View
“Batteries Included” Sharing
“A script that is kept to yourself is only useful to you.” -- James E. Ervin from this presentation
Future Plans Add Jython engine with support for
Include and Include-Bundle keywords Add Glimmer library for GUI work in
Ruby Integrate with Plugin Spy Allow scripts to be packaged in bundles
Monkey Resources http://iacobus.blogspot.com/ http://groovy.codehaus.org/Groovy+Monkey http://sourceforge.net/projects/groovy-monkey http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/introduction-scriptin
g-eclipse http://jakarta.apache.org/bsf/
Questions?