Eclipse Platform Improvements, Top Eclipse Kepler Feature #3

As we approach the release of Eclipse Kepler, I’m counting down the Top 10 Features I’m most excited about. Number 4 on my list is RAP 2.x. Powerful, stable and well thought-out APIs is a common theme among Eclipse projects. From the early days of Eclipse, there has always been a focus on API development and [...]

The Eclipse Kepler release is just over 1 week away, and to help celebrate the release I’m counting down the Top 10 Kepler Features I’m most excited about. Number 5 on my list is the much improved integration between Maven and Eclipse. Integrating Maven based builds into Eclipse is not easy. This is because both [...]

With all of the current mobile and desktop operating systems we use all day, most users expect a great deal from an application user interface. People take things like animated transitions, gesture-based navigation, transparent controls and high resolution graphics, for granted. Yes, SWT recently added Touch- and Gesture Listeners. And yes, you can set alpha on [...]

In RAP 1.3, we added support for GC (Graphics Context) to the canvas widget. It allows you to draw simple shapes such as lines, squares, ovals or arcs, and fill them with solid colors or gradients. Most of the time, this will suffice your needs, but sometimes you may also want to draw more complex shapes such [...]

Since 2001, Eclipse has been setting the standard for Java Development Tools, and with Eclipse Kepler, the JDT team has shipped another top-quality release. As we get closer to Eclipse Kepler, I’m counting down the Top 10 Eclipse Kepler features that I’m looking forward to most. Number 6 on my list is the improvements to [...]

The EMF Client Platform is a framework that allows you to create and iteratively develop applications very efficiently starting with the bare description of the data entities of your application (e.g., as an EMF model or an XML Schema Definition). From the very start, the EMF Client Platform will provide you with a fully functioning [...]

A common theme among Eclipse tools is that they keep you focused on your task by keeping you in the IDE. Linux Tools, which is number 7 on my Eclipse Kepler Top 10 List is no different. Linux Tools keeps C/C++ developers (and other Linux developers) focused on their work by bringing all the tools [...]

We are very happy to announce release 1.0.0 of the EMF Client Platform (ECP)! We have finally come to release 1.0.0 and have graduated, although ECP is already deployed in several productive applications. Technically, we just released ECP at the democamp in Munich. As nobody was in office to do the release, we had a [...]