Growing an open source project

 .. one bugday at a time

Ian Bull, March 2011

Bugday was started at Eclipse to help foster community outreach and growth by providing an environment that encourages contributions from individuals who may not have worked on Open Source projects before. While bugday encourages participation, several technical challenges often make it difficult to get started.  In this talk we will introduce a free service by EclipseSource to help Eclipse projects share their tool-chain configurations as a set of profiles. By simply 'launching' a profile, everything needed to get started with that project will automatically be provisioned.

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What every Eclipse Developer should know about EMF

Jonas Helming and Maximilian Koegel, March 2011

This tutorial introduces how to use EMF and explains the basics. It shows how to build a simple data-centric application based on EMF including the UI, how to define a model in EMF and how to generate code from it. In the second part, there will be a brief overview of the most important additional technologies.

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A look ahead at RAP - News and Vision

Ralf Sternberg, March 2011

This talk gives an overview of new features in the next RAP release and also explains our vision for the release after this one. Topics will include mashups with RAP, advanced styling features, RAP on mobile devices, components in the RAP incubator...

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Sovereign: Migrating Java Threads to Improve Availability of Web Applications

Johannes Eickhold, Markus Knauer, March 2011

Transparent failover as a technique to improve reliability of mission critical systems is not usable with web applications that rely on additional threads in their HTTP sessions. RAP applications fall into this category of web applications. Sovereign is a research project by EclipseSource in conjunction with the Technical University Munich to develop a solution for the above problem.

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Long-Term Support for Eclipse

The next step in Enterprise Readiness
Jochen Krause and Karsten Schmidt,  November 2010

Long Term support is an initiative by the Eclipse Foundation for enabling broader support for Eclipse. In this talk Jochen Krause (EclipseSource) and Karsten Schmidt (SAP) present the basic concepts and lay out the requirements of potential support consumers like SAP and potential support providers like EclipseSource. They describe how the Long-Term support infrastructure can become a key differentiator for Eclipse, and how it can open new revenue streams for the Eclipse Foundation and its ecosystem.

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Searching The Cloud - The eclipseRT Umbrella

Markus Knauer, July 2010

In this talk Markus demonstrates how to set up a search application in the Cloud with the help of the following EclipseRT and Eclipse Technology projects:

• g-Eclipse is used to manage and configure the virtual Cloud resources based on its general Cloud model.
• p2 is used to deploy the search application.
• SMILA (SeMantic Information Logistics Architecture) is used as a framework for building the search application
• RAP is used to create a simple search-UI for the application.

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Eclipse RAP - What's new in Helios?

June 4, 2010

Elias Volanakis presents the highlights of the new features released by the RAP team in RAP 1.3 as part of the Eclipse 3.6 Helios release. 

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OSGi for Eclipse Developers

April 23, 2009

EclipseSource's Chris Aniszczyk along with Bernd Kolb and Martin Lippert discuss the fundamentals of OSGi.

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OSMB Keynote: Prometheus, the open source insurance platform

January 2009

EclipseSource's Jochen Krause and BFZs Prof. Elmar Helten gave a keynote on the Prometheus Project at the Open Source Meets Business conference in Nürnberg. The Prometheus effort is about creating a consortium and an open source platform for the insurance industry in the area of broker software and automated data exchange.

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e4 at the Eclipse Banking Day in New York

December 2008

This presentation covers e4, the next generation of the Eclipse platform and was held at the Eclipse Banking Day in New York in December 2009. Targeted at senior technical developers, architects and managers in the finance industry it provided information on how to better leverage Eclipse technology and the Eclipse community in the financial sector.

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Provisioning Eclipse for the Enterprise

December 2008

EclipseSource's Jeff McAffer, IBM's Pascal Rapicault and Cloudsmith's Henrik Lindberg discuss p2 technology in Provisioning Eclipse for the Enterprise

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The Rich AJAX Platform (RAP)

December 2008

EclipseSource's Jochen Krause, the RAP project lead, provides an overview and demonstration of the RAP platform.

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Creating Platforms Using Eclipse Equinox

December 2008

EclipseSource's CTO and Equinox co-lead, Jeff McAffer discusses the evolution of the Equinox platform and provides an overview of how it can be used as a basis for innovative platform development.

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Making the Eclipse Workbench look great

November 2008

The EclipseSource RAP team has put a strong focus on look and feel and usability during the latest development cycle. The new look and feel and the newly developed concepts enable better looking RAP and RCP applications.

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