Chris Aniszczyk
Eclipse RAP 1.3 M5 Released
The RAP team just announced the availability of RAP 1.3 M5!
Eclipse RAP 1.3 M4 Released
The RAP team is proud to announce the fourth milestone for the Eclipse Helios release.
Webinar: Eclipse in the Large
On December 14, 2009, the Eclipse Foundation is hosting a webinar that will include speakers from Cisco, Morgan Stanley and eBay discussing deploying Eclipse to thousands, and even tens of thousands, of their developers.
Blogging and PlanetEclipse
I recently added Del Myers to the PlanetEclipse syndication rolls.
EclipseRT Usage
As an Eclipse committer, I love to see Eclipse technology used in a variety of places.
Simplifying the Equinox P2 User Interface
I’m not sure if people noticed this last week, but there’s been discussion of providing a simplified p2 ui by refactoring out the Mylyn discovery user interface and pushing it down the stack.
Git Mirrors at Eclipse.org
Good news everyone, Git mirrors are going live at Eclipse.org
Join us at Eclipse Summit Europe 2009
This week, we’ll be participating at Eclipse Summit Europe 2009 in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
PDE Visualization is Available
Good news everyone, the Eclipse PDE team finally made the visualization component available for everyone.
Eclipse e4 1.0 M1 Released
Today, the Eclipse e4 project had its first 1.0 milestone release.
EclipseRT Days in Austin and Toronto
In November, the Eclipse Foundation will be hosting EclipseRT Days in Austin and Toronto.
Reverting Changes in an Eclipse Installation using p2
I was helping a colleague with some Eclipse install issues and was surprised he didn’t know about the ability to revert to a previous install configuration.
Eclipse 3.5.1 (Galileo SR1) is out!
Eclipse 3.5.1 was just released! This is a service release as part of the Eclipse Galileo release train.
Git at Eclipse
Git has been gaining some traction in the Eclipse community as of late.
OSGi EventAdmin Redux
I recently blogged about the OSGi EventAdmin service and got some good feedback.
OSGi EventAdmin
I recently had a few people come to me to chat about the OSGi EventAdmin service.
Eclipse RAP 1.3 M1 released
I spoke with a Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) committer briefly today and he reminded me that the RAP team recently released 1.
EclipseDay 2009 at the Googleplex
This Thursday, Google is graciously hosting an EclipseDay At Googleplex. There will be talks on topics like Distributed OSGi, Eclipse at NASA and Android.
Eclipse, OSGi and PAX Runner
If you’re using Eclipse for OSGi development, there’s a neat utility that you can use to help you run your OSGi application on a variety of frameworks.
Eclipse 3.6 M1 is out
Good news, Eclipse 3.6 M1 is out and available for download (new and noteworthy)!
CFP: Eclipse Summit Europe 2009
As a reminder, there’s two weeks left to submit talks to Eclipse Summit Europe 2009.
Eclipse e4 0.9 Alpha Release
Last week, the Eclipse e4 project had its alpha release.
OSGi, Dynamics and Eclipse
I often hear this question… “Why does Eclipse prompt me to restart if it’s a dynamic OSGi-based application?
Crowdsourcing Documentation at Eclipse
I’ve been pensive as of late since we shipped the Eclipse Galileo release.
OSGi, Eclipse and API Management
Recently, a few people have come to me ask how Eclipse maintains its API and versions.
Training for Eclipse Galileo and p2
As part of the Eclipse Galileo release, we updated all of our training courses to reflect the latest release:
Equinox p2 User Interface Feedback?
As we learned from Ian Bull, p2 has come a long way for the Galileo release.
Eclipse Galileo Wallpaper
I like to keep my desktop pretty. Support the Eclipse Galileo release by grabbing some new desktop wallpaper!
Eclipse, OSGi, Galileo and Release Trains
Ah, Eclipse Galileo is finally out for Friends of Eclipse, I just got the glorious email:
Eclipse Embedded Day 2009
Eclipse Embedded Day happens this week on June 25th, 2009, just a day after the Eclipse Galileo release.
Eclipse Day At Googleplex 2009
From the EclipseSource team, Scott Lewis and I will be speaking at the Eclipse Day held at the Googleplex this year.
OSGi and Start Levels
I’ve been working with OSGi for quite awhile and have recently been helping someone fight some start level issues.
Eclipse 3.5 RC4 is out!
The last release candidate for Eclipse 3.5 shipped! Eclipse 3.5 RC4 is out for download (or update via p2).
Free OSGi and Equinox Course
OSGi has been in the press a lot lately. Everywhere you turn, there is some new product or project adopting the technology.
PDE's Automated Management of Dependencies
I have been working with the upcoming Equinox OSGi book authors quite a bit as of late.
Eclipse, SAP and Project Pave
A new project proposal came through my inbox this morning.
Eclipse Galileo is Coming Soon!
It’s that time of year again… we’re getting close to release time at Eclipse!
OSGi Declarative Services
For those of you who don’t know, the Eclipse SDK now ships an implementation of OSGi Declarative Services (DS).
Help Design the Eclipse Galileo Graphic
It’s almost time for the Eclipse Galileo release and the Eclipse Foundation is looking for some input on choosing the next graphic for Galileo.
Eclipse 3.5M7 is out!
Eclipse 3.5 M7 is out! Get it while it’s hot! (new and noteworthy)
Eclipse Feedback Agent?
For those who follow me on Twitter, know that I and Firefox don’t get along.
Target Platform Provisioning
I’ve been doing bundle development for a very long time so I have a lot of fantasies of how we can improve development workflows.
Comparing API Baselines
In Eclipse 3.5, the PDE team has been hard at work improving the API Tools component.
Export into the Host Eclipse
In the traditional RCP development workflow, you find yourself self-hosting a lot.
Finding SWT Leaks with Sleak
In SWT, the mantra is “if you created it, you dispose it.
OSGi Training
I’ve been recently approached by people interested in OSGi training. This is quite serendipitous because the Eclipse Training Series is happening right now and offers OSGi training from places like sunny Austin to historic Berlin!
Visualizing OSGi Systems
At the recent OSGi Tool Summit, one of the biggest discussion items that came up was visualization.
Eclipse Menu Contribution URIs
Since Eclipse 3.3, placing contributions in a menu (via the org.
OSGi Execution Environment Validation
Execution Environments (EE) are a neat concept within OSGi, however, things can become complicated when developing against multiple EEs.
e4 0.9 M2 Released!
It’s great to see a new milestone of e4 released (new and noteworthy)!
OSGi Tool Summit Recap
Last Friday, March 27th, Jeff McAffer and I attended the OSGi Tool Summit graciously hosted by LinkedIn:
OSGi Log Service
The OSGi specification defines a log service (Section 101.1) in the Service Compendium.
EclipseCon 2009 (Day 1): RAP, p2, Distributed OSGi
The EclipseSource team is enjoying its time at EclipseCon 2009. Here’s a reminder of what our team is talking about today.
I Spy Menus
Everyone remember the beloved PDE plug-in spy? Well, on a recent plane trip… I did some hacking to enable menu introspection… check out this video:
Eclipse and Google Summer of Code 2009
I want to remind the Eclipse community that Google Summer of Code 2009 (GSOC) recruiting is in full swing now.
Eclipse 3.5M6 is out!
I just got back from vacation and was pleased to see Eclipse 3.
EclipseCon: OSGi for Eclipse Developers
I spent a good portion of my day today working on one of my EclipseCon 2009 presentations that I’ll be giving with Bernd Kolb and Martin Lippert, “OSGi for Eclipse Developers”:
Tip: Styling Label Providers
Were you ever curious how to get those pretty colored labels in your JFace viewers you see all over Eclipse?
New Nebula SWT Widgets
Did you know about the Nebula project at Eclipse? If not, you should… Nebula is a source for custom SWT widgets and other UI components:
Eclipse and Universities
I stumbled across this university research project on the Eclipse newsgroups today that does something pretty gnarly.
I *heart* SWT Cocoa
A good portion of the EclipseSource technical team use MacBook Pro’s for their development machines.
OSGi Declarative Services Tooling
For those who have been following the OSGi v4.2 specification revisions lately, hopefully you’re aware that the Declarative Services (DS) portion received some updates.
Tip: Adding Bundles to Java Search
Awhile ago, I blogged about adding bundles to your Java search scope.
Target Platform Changes
I sent an email out to eclipse-dev today detailing some of the changes the PDE team has made to the target platform story:
OSGi Tooling Summit
I recently blogged how excited I was about the OSGi Tooling BOF at EclipseCon, but it seems that the OSGi Alliance has outdone itself.
The first e4 milestone
Wow, I just saw the new and noteworthy posted for the first e4 milestone.
Tip: The Configure Menu
In the Eclipse 3.5 release (Galileo), there’s a new way for you to contribute project related actions (e.
OSGi Tooling BOF @ EclipseCon
I’m so filled with joy that we’re going to have an OSGi Tooling BOF at EclipseCon this year.
Eclipse, Education and Open Source
I’m excited to learn that certain computer science students will be contributing to Eclipse (WTP in particular) as part of university class credit.
Tip: Encoding Issues with Plug-ins
Have you ever come across an issue while developing an Eclipse-based application, go to export it and get an evil “Invalid character constant” message or something similar in your logs?
Tip: Generate NLS Fragments in Eclipse
In Eclipse 3.5M4, there’s new functionality in PDE to help you generate NL fragments.
Tip: PDE Build and Binary Cycles
I recently spent some time with a client removing some cycles in bundles and discussing why cycles are evil in the first place.
Tip: Eclipse, OSGi and Execution Environments
I was working with a client recently and the question of what are execution environments came up.
Tip: Spellchecking in Eclipse
Ever wanted to add spelling checking to a dialog, form or some editor in your Eclipse-based application?
Tip: Project Level Settings
I can’t count how many times I have come across developers that aren’t using project level settings.
Tip: Split Packages and Visibility
In an OSGi-based system, there are cases when you want to do some heavy refactoring but run the risk of breaking downstream clients.
Tip: Suppressing Keybindings
I was helping a colleague today with a key binding issue that I think is fairly common.