I finally had the time to care about one of my outstanding tasks - provide a tutorial and example how to use Equinox Security. While the tutorial was initially targeted for RAP users, I also added a launch config and a target definition for RCP as the code is the same for both runtimes. The tutorial will provide some hints and pointers how to setup...
Read MoreFinally the voting process for this years Google Summer of Code is over and they announced the accepted students. I'm really happy that so many interesting proposals got trough and really looking forward to see the outcome of all the student projects. Here is the full list of the proposals that got accepted for 2010. Improve Eclipse Git integration Student: Dariusz Luksza Mentor(s): Matthias Sohn WAR deployment for RAP/Equinox based...
Read MoreFrom time to time, I'm in the situation when I want to suggest a UI change or even try to come up with a completely new UI. While I love programming, it may be easier in these situations to just "sketch" the idea instead of really getting your feet wet. As many people asked me what I use for UI sketches, I thought I should...
Read MoreEver been to Mannheim? If not - this is your chance to visit this lovely city. For the Helios release, the guys behind the majug² (Mannheimer Java user Group) invite everybody to the Helios Democamp in June. And as Ian already found out: Yes, we love our DemoCamps! It's always great to have technical discussions over a frosty beverage! [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="422" caption="Watertower by flamouroux"][/caption] At the moment,...
Read MoreI have to admit, I'm a little nervous what happens with the RAP community after this post. At least for me, the last days were pretty exciting. Some days ago, Ivan from the RAP team committed the initial support for a GC (GraphicsContext) for RAP. Currently restricted to the Canvas widget, the GC provides thousands of new use cases for RAP applications. The work by...
Read MoreEven though I've been involved in the Eclipse community for around 5 years, I'm still amazed by the projects that are hosted under the Eclipse umbrella. As an "insider", I have a pretty good overview of many projects and at least a rough picture of all the other cool stuff. While I love working with EclipseRT technologies like Equinox, RAP, EclipseLink, ECF or <insert your...
Read MoreDuring the last weeks, Kenn and I worked together to support EMF generated editors running on RAP. I'm always mesmerized by how effective such synergies can be used when people from different teams work together for a bigger goal. Kudos to Kenn for his great work in EMF by refactoring the EMF UI bundles (namely o.e.emf.ui.common and o.e.emf.ui.edit) in order to single-source them. But what...
Read MoreWe're all looking forward to talk about EclipseRT, Equinox and RAP at the DemoCamps around the world. In case you want to catch us and talk about Eclipse and related topics, just join one of the DemoCamps near you. Besides many other interesting talks, we'll mostly cover EclipseRT, RAP and p2. Ottawa, ON, Canada - November 24 - Jeff McAffer (EclipseRT) Braunschweig/Hanover, Germany - November 25 -...
Read MoreAfter another 6 weeks of working hard towards the Helios Release, we're a step closer. RAP M3 for Eclipse 3.6 is out and can be obtained from the RAP project page. Besides another 130 bugfixes and many New and Noteworthy features, here are my personal favorites of this milestone: Non-shared SWT resources Finally, we decided to provide constructors and a dispose mechanism for SWT resources like fonts,...
Read MoreThe RAP team is proud to announce the second milestone for the Helios release. As Holger already mentioned in his blog post, part of the milestone is a new design option for RAP applications. You can either use it as is or customize it depending on your needs. Together with the new fancy design, there is also a new Configuration dialog to enable and disable the view...
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