David Staheli | Engineering Manager | Visual Studio Team Services | Microsoft

INTEGRATING DIFFERENT IDE’SWITH A COMMON SETOF DEVELOPER SERVICES

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST IDE?

THERE’S AN IDE FOR THAT

VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SERVICES

Plan

Code

Build

Test

Deploy

Monitor

IDE PLUGINS FORVISUAL STUDIO TEAM SERVICES

DECISIONS AND CHALLENGES

• Matching an IDE’s look and feel

• Reusing code across plug-ins

• Interacting with browsers

MATCHING AN IDE’S LOOK AND FEEL

DUPLICATE UI AND LOGIC

UI

IDE 1

Logic

UI

IDE 2

Logic

DUPLICATE UI, REUSE LOGIC IN-PROCESS

UI

IDE 1

UI

IDE 2

Logic

DUPLICATE UI, REUSE LOGIC OUT-OF-PROCESS

UI

IDE 1

UI

IDE 2

Logic

• TCP• HTTP• stdin/stdout• Named pipe

REUSE UI AND LOGIC – REMOTE WEB SERVER

Embedded

Browser

IDE 1 IDE 2

Embedded

Browser

Web Server

HTTP

EMBEDDED BROWSER INTERACTION

IDE

Browser Host

In-process Browser

JavaScript Events

IDE Procedure Calls JavaScript Function Calls

IDE Events

EMBEDDED BROWSER INTERACTION

Example: Eclipse Issue Tracking

CROSS-PLATFORM BROWSER USAGE

Example: IntelliJ / Android Studio Authentication

CROSS-PLATFORM BROWSER USAGE

In-process browser,

or handling browser events?

Using

Eclipse,

or

supporting

Java 1.6?

SWT Browserorg.eclipse.swt.browser

JavaFX WebViewJava 1.7+

Launch system

browser

No No

Yes Yes

REUSE UI AND LOGIC – LOCAL WEB SERVER

Embedded

Browser

IDE 1 IDE 2

Embedded

Browser

HTTP

Local Web Server

LAUNCHING AN IDE FROM A BROWSER

LAUNCHING AN IDE FROM A BROWSER

Example: Open from Web in Android Studio

FINAL NOTES

• Follow us @JavaALM

• java.visualstudio.com

• GitHub repos:• vso-intellij

• team-explorer-everywhere

• jenkinsci/tfs-plugin

• vso-agent-tasks

• oauth2-useragent

• git-credential-manager-for-mac-and-linux

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