Yoxos Enterprise
Governance tools and processes for Eclipse enterprise deployment
Consistent plug-in dependencies - distribution of centrally/team managed configurations like preferences, code formatting, source code repository configurations - consistent updates
- About Yoxos Enterprise
- Benefits
- Collaborative Development
- Product Components
- Focus on Quality
- Try it
"Yoxos' integration, validation, installation, and update features make it easier for developers to manage their Eclipse environments."
Tyler Thessin, project lead Eclipse TPTP project and Manager of Intel® Software development products
About Yoxos Enterprise
With Yoxos Enterprise, IT departments and development teams get a single solution for sharing custom Eclipse-based toolsets, configurations and source code. Yoxos Enterprise combines the well established Eclipse infrastructure for development, bugtracking and source code management and combines it with a robust library of Eclipse plug-ins to create a single solution for administering and distributing tools to developer workplaces.
Automation for Tool Integration
Providing a consistent Eclipse toolset requires a significant amount of investment in manpower, tools and processes. Internal IT departments can now streamline the process for managing Eclipsebased technologies across development teams of any size.
Better Collaboration for Development Teams
Development teams can easily share and sync plug-in configurations, Eclipse preferences, internally-development plug-ins, and plug-in settings.
Developer Benefits
- Developers get the right tools at the right time.
- With Workplace provisioning, developers can share configuration settings and preferences.
- Developers stay in sync with each other with plug-in profiles.
- Updating is automatic, freeing up time for more coding.
- Developers have a process and tool to avoid version conflicts.
Benefits
- Standardization
Uniform processes for updating and enhancing development environments.
- Flexibility
Integrate a broad set of open source, internally-developed and commercial plug-ins without suffering from costly complexity.
- Quality
The plug-ins and their dependencies need to work not just on the first install but with each change or update. As the developers’ Eclipse configurations grow and become more complex, reliability and quality are assured as well as the compatibility between the developers’ workspaces.
- Validated content
Yoxos Library is the largest selection of tested and validated Eclipse plug-ins on the market. Automatic resolution of dependencies, quality control tools and versioning capabilities mean that companies can maintain a consistent and functioning tool chain. Yoxos Enterprise provides the means to customize, enhance and deploy these plug-ins across your development organization.
- Team collaboration based on Eclipse
Profiles allow tool setup in minutes instead of hours. Developers can share all necessary configurations to keep them consistent and in sync for all team members by providing simple URLs.
Collaborative Development
Yoxos Profiles
Yoxos profiles enable tool setup in minutes instead of hours; developers can share all necessary configurations to keep them consistent and in sync for all team members. Using an intuitive Ajax Web 2.0 interface (or from within Eclipse) development teams create their project-specific tool profiles from abroad set of Eclipse plug-ins and features. Profiles can easily be shared between developers by providing simple URL´s.
Workspace Provisioning
With workspace provisioning, you can not only customize the plug-in set but also the plugin configuration, settings, Eclipse preferences and more. Once started, Eclipse will automatically be updated with predefined projects, settings and tools. This can include tools for sourcecode management (CVS, Subversion), bug and requirements tracking (Bugzilla, Jira), quality control (Checkstyle), Mylyn configurations, team project sets, and plug-in preferences like for code formatters. When the profile changes all team members get notified and can synchronize their local environment.
Product Components
Yoxos Plug-in Library
A selection of hundreds of Eclipse plug-ins, all of which undergo a rigorous validation and testing process.
Build & Integration Module
Create a uniform, self-contained tool set out of plug-ins from a variety of sources: the Yoxos Library, eclipse.org, thirdparty providers, or your own company.
Validation and Testing Module
Verify the consistency of plug-in metainformation. Ensure that the toolset is consistent and self-contained. Automatically run smoke tests on the toolset.
Quality Assessment Module
Review the design quality of plug-ins and their architecture through metrics andbenchmarks. Identify design weaknesses and flawed usage of API´s. Inspect plug-ins for problems that may affect their interoperability with other plug-ins.
Deployment & Delivery Module
Update and enhance your distribution through a GUI interface plug-in (Yoxos Install Manager) and/or a web-based service (Yoxos On Demand). Define task-based plug-in profiles that can be easily shared with team members. Easily recreate tool configurations for legacy plug-ins (for example, for maintenance purposes).
Focus on Quality
Eclipse plug-ins and their dependencies need to work not only on the first install but with each change or update. Quality assessment tools analyze and visually map the relationships between plug-ins, detect problematic references to internal classes and suggest areas for improvement. By using the Quality Assessment tools, developers will learn how make more effective use of Eclipse and write better, lower-maintenance Eclipse-based applications.
- Results of the Quality Assessment presented in overview and detailed view
Try it
Try out Yoxos Enterprise on the cloud
We'll create an instance of Yoxos Enterprise on the Amazon cloud for your team to explore Yoxos Enterprise hands-on. Contact us at info@innoopract.com.
