Last week, Eclipse Photon has been released, a new version of the Eclipse IDE and platform. It contains many useful improvements, so it is worth to update. One of many noteworthy extensions is the new support for code mining. In case you wonder what that is (you do not even find a definition on wikipedia), let us quickly introduce this new feature. The general idea is to...
Read MoreWe are happy to announce that with the Photon release train, we have also shipped EMF Forms and EMF Client Platform 1.17.0! We want to thank our continuously active team of 10 contributors (40 contributors overall) for completing on 57 bug fixes and features. EMF Forms continues to be one of the most active projects at Eclipse. We are thankful for all the feedback from our...
Read MoreWe are happy to announce the first Eclipse Insight on Building Modeling Tools in Munich, on September 3rd (5.30 pm - 9 pm), registration see here. What is an Eclipse Insight? Eclipse DemoCamps in Munich have always been a great success and we therefore want to continue organizing Eclipse events in Munich. Nevertheless, we were watching the feedback given by attendees and want to improve. One frequent...
Read MoreIn this article, we provide an overview about Eclipse Theia, an open source platform for building web- and cloud-based IDEs and domain-specific tools. We describe the basic features of Theia and compare it with the classic Eclipse platform. So if you are new to Eclipse Theia and want to learn what this is all about, keep on reading! According to the hypothesis, “Theia” collided with earth...
Read MoreIt is clear that there is an ongoing excitement surrounding web-based IDEs and tools, e.g. Eclipse Che, Eclipse Theia, Visual Studio Code, Atom or Eclipse Orion. If you attended recent presentations or read current announcements, you may get the feeling that desktop IDEs have already been deprecated. But is this really true? If you ask developers for the tools they use in their daily work,...
Read MoreTarget Platform definitions are a way to define from where Eclipse-based projects obtain their dependencies. They provide many benefits, but in case you still need more convincing please see here. However, defining, updating, and especially applying target platform definitions in Eclipse-based projects has always been extremely cumbersome. There are two main reasons for this: First, typical target platforms are a complex configuration of third-party bundles, which sometimes...
Read MoreEMF Forms makes it easy to create forms that are able to edit your data based on an EMF model. To get started with EMF Forms please refer to our tutorial. In this post, we would like to outline a new feature in the 1.16.0 release: The improved template model tooling. A template model allows you to customize the way in which EMF Forms displays...
Read MoreThis week, Oxygen.3 has been released, a new version of the Eclipse IDE and platform. It contains useful improvements, especially in terms of performance, so it is worth to update. Further Eclipse Oxygen.3 is ready for Java 10 support, which is already available as a pre-release from the market place On April 11th Oxygen.3a will be released, directly contained Java 10 support. These and further improvements are...
Read MoreWe are happy to announce with the Oxygen.3 release train, we have also shipped EMF Forms and EMF Client Platform 1.16.0! We want to thank our continuously active team of 11 contributors (40 contributors overall) for completing on 49 bug reports and feature requests. EMF Forms continues to be one of the most active projects at Eclipse. As several statistics show, we are also proud on...
Read MoreToday, we are happy to announce the the 2.0 release of JSON Forms. This release is a major milestone for us as it is the result of several months of work during which we did a lot of exploration, prototyping and finally implementation. In case you don’t know JSON Forms: It is a framework for efficiently developing form-based UIs for the web. It therefore provides...
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