I’m excited to have the opportunity to speak at the upcoming Eclipse Forum India conference next week. I will be giving three talks:

• What’s new in Eclipse Plug-in Development
• OSGi for Eclipse Developers
• Single Sourcing: Extend your RCP Application to the Web with RAP

It looks like Eclipse will be well represented at the conference, there will be talks on EclipseLink, Modeling, SWTBot, RCP and RAP. Personally, I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to meet with the Indian Eclipse community! This will also be my first time experiencing the new Bangalore airport… I’ve been to the old one a few times so I’m curious to hear people’s experience reports about the new airport!

Also, if you’re up for a frosty beverage in India, please let me know!

Tags: eclipse, india

It’s great to see a new milestone of e4 released (new and noteworthy)!

The major new and noteworthy item in my opinion is that XWT was included for the first time in e4:

What is XWT? XWT is a declarative widget framework that allows you to specify UI components in a declarative fashion. SWT code is generated automatically from an XML-based UI declaration. It’s kind of nice to switch between Design, Source and Java tabs!

In the end, it’s great to see progress.

Tags: e4, eclipse

ECF is finishing up it’s implementation of RFC 119 (distributed OSGi) for release with Galileo (aka ECF 3.0).

Over beers at EclipseCon, Ian Skerrett suggested to me that we needed a name for this work…something other than ‘ECF RFC 119 Implementation’ .

So, we’ve opened a bug to identify a name for ECF’s distributed OSGi implementation.  Please join the bug, and give us your ideas for a good, clear, understandable name.

Tags: equinox, OSGi, rfc119