Eclipse Day India 2015 - Using Eclipse to build Saas offerings on Bluemix

1. By Eclipse and Bluemix,
For Eclipse and Bluemix
Nithya Rajagopalan, Development Lead,
IBM
nithya_rajagopalan@in.ibm.com
Eclipse Day 2015

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Agenda
• Motivation to convert desktop software to SaaS offering
• How it was done – Case Study
• Best Practices
• Demo on using Eclipse tools with Bluemix
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Motivation to move desktop application to Cloud
• Tool Administrator
– With the traditional desktop application, upgrade to new versions
meant installing in every user’s system. This is a huge overhead
for the support personnel and prone to errors. Synching of
different versions of software amongst the users is an overhead
and high maintenance task.
• Infrastructure developer
– Open API to develop custom applications
• Customer/Clients
• Anybody who wants to use the desktop feature can use it from
Bluemix.
• The current tool was used only in Lifecycle management but it
has the potential to be used for document generation in any
domain.
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Advantages
• Ease of Use and Self Serviceability
– Simplified deployment and maintenance for the system
administrators
• Emphasis on collaboration and reuse
– Custom clients can be built on the APIs
– New use cases
– Custom applications can take advantage of DevOps Services
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How it was done – Case Study
• Deployed on Bluemix Catalog
– The engine of desktop application is hosted as an API service on
the Bluemix Catalog on production.
– Service Broker used for this
• Sample code and API available
– Clients applications and samples to use these APIs are provided,
thus enabling users to either use the canned client or to build
their own software to use Document Generation on the cloud.
Any XML datasource can be the datasource for this cloud
service.
• Customized clients
– A web based interface can be built to access the engine without
the need for the desktop software.
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DGaaS as a Catalog Service
• REST Based API
– Report Creation
– Document Generation
• Simple dashboard for Service status
• Sample code on GitHub
• Swagger API Documentation
• Service Broker
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Best Practices
• Architecture changes to suit both On-perm and Cloud model.
• Common Engine
• Common Build for the On-perm product and for the Cloud
offering
• Cloud offering has extra steps for Bluemix integration
• Continuous integration and continuous verification on Bluemix
staging
• Test for one, test for all
• Common compliance processes and tests for both.
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Eclipse tools for Bluemix
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https://hub.jazz.net/docs/jazz_scm_client/

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Develop on Eclipse and deploy on Bluemix
• Create a javascript project in eclipse
• Create a server by selecting IBM Bluemix
• Right-click the project in the Project Explorer and choose
Properties > Project Facet. Click Convert to faceted form.
Under Project Facets, select Node.js Application.
• Right-click the started Bluemix server. Choose Add and
Remove.
• Start server or push updates
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10. Thank You