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Report from EclipseCon: The Eclipse Code Recommenders project


By Dave Gruber
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April 5, 2012 —  (Page 2 of 2)

This idea is really compelling and sets the stage for a whole new level of productivity using Eclipse. So while the demo of the current version of ECR was quite compelling, the idea of getting an in-line code search engine that pulls from other public code repositories around the world gives me the promise of a new level of productivity.

Bruch asked the audience: “Who uses code search engines?” Surprisingly, only a few hands went up of the 120+ people attending the session. With open-source code search engines like koders.com, opensearch.krugle.org, grepcode.com and antepedia.com already available to help developers find and use code, ECR potentially opens up a new opportunity to leverage these vast databases of open-source code in a tightly integrated way within the Eclipse environment.

One of the other things that intrigued me about the project is that there are 60+ students helping to build the software! This kind of approach to innovating and leveraging bright young developers is just the kind of approach needed to think differently about coding. Oh, and the project won the Eclipse Community Award in the “Most Innovative New Feature or Eclipse Project” category.

This project is definitely one to watch in 2012!

Dave Gruber works for Black Duck Software.

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