Jonas Helming is co-lead for the EclipseSource team and the project lead of the Eclipse EMF Client Platform and the EMFStore project. He works as an Eclipse Consultant and trainer for Eclipse related topics and agile methods. He frequently publishes tutorials, e.g. about EMF and e4, and recently published a book about e4.
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Eclipse 2022-06 has been recently released, a new version of the Eclipse IDE and platform.
Eclipse 2021-03 has been released yesterday, a new version of the Eclipse IDE and platform.
This week, Eclipse 2020-06 has been released two weeks ago, a new version of the Eclipse IDE and platform.
This week, Eclipse 2019-12 has been released, a new version of the Eclipse IDE and platform.
We are looking forward to host the first Eclipse Insight in Munich next week on september the 3rd (5.
EMF Forms makes it easy to create forms that are capable of editing your data based on an EMF model.
We are happy to announce that Ed, Philip and Jonas are organizing the Modeling Symposium for the EclipseCon Europe 2018 in Ludwigsburg.
I am happy to announce that the Call for Papers is out and submissions are open for EclipseCon Europe 2016 (October 25th - 27th).
The release of Eclipse 4.x (e4) raised the question of how to migrate existing Eclipse 3.
As Maximilian already announced on his Blog: To make it simpler for you to follow our blog posts from EclipseSource Munich we will now use a joint blog for all topics related to our work in Munich.
Almost two years ago, I have created a basic tutorial for the UI testing tool “Q7”.
I am happy to present the selected talks for the Modeling Symposium for EclipseCon North America 2015.
I am happy to announce that Philip, Ed and I are organizing the Modeling Symposium for EclipseCon North America 2015.
Last week, we hosted the Eclipse Democamp at our EclipseSource office in Munich.
In this blog series, I describe the five most notable new features of EMF Forms 1.
In this blog series, I describe the five most notable new features of EMF Forms 1.
In this blog series, I describe the five most notable new features of EMF Forms 1.
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the Eclipse DemoCamp Munich 2014.
In this blog series, I describe the five most notable new features of EMF Forms 1.
Like in the past years, we continue in our tradition of hosting a “Christmas DemoCamp”.
The modeling symposium at EclipseCon Europe 2014 takes place on Tuesday, October 28th from 5.
In this small blog post series, I describe the five most notable new features of EMF Forms 1.
We are happy to announce that we have just released EMF Client Platform and EMF Forms 1.
I am happy to announce that Philip, Ed and I are organizing the Modeling Symposium for EclipseCon Europe 2014.
The Eclipse 4.4 release, called “Luna”, was released on 26 June 2014.
We are happy to announce that EMF Forms (and the parent project EMF Client Platform) joins the Eclipse Luna release train and will be available as part of the Eclipse Modeling Tools package.
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the Eclipse DemoCamp Munich 2014 on June 24th, which will be hosted this year by our new sponsor BSI and will be taking place at Capgemini Munich.
A comparison between view modeling and manual UI programming In my previous blog, I introduced EMF Forms, a subcomponent of EMF Client Platform (ECP), which supports the development of form-based user interfaces based on a view model.
In this blog post I would like to officially introduce a framework called EMF Forms, which will be part of the upcoming Luna release, too.
We are very happy to announce release 1.2.0 of the EMF Client Platform (ECP)!
I am happy to present the selected talks for the Modeling Symposium for EclipseCon North America 2014.
I am happy to announce that Ed, Eugen and I are organizing the Modeling Symposium for EclipseCon North America 2014.
This year we are again very happy to be hosting an Eclipse November DemoCamp in Munich.
I am happy to announce that Ed, Eugen and I are organizing the Modeling Symposium for EclipseCon Europe 2013.
In the last two parts of my Eclipse 4 (e4) tutorial, I described details about the dependency injection.
This part of the series describes how to add custom controls to the editor of the EMF Client platform.
This part of the series describes how to replace the editor of the EMF Client platform.
This part of the series describes how to add custom validation constraints to the UI of the EMF Client platform.
This part of the series describes how to customize the look of model elements in the UI of the EMF Client platform.
This part of the series describes how to get started with the EMF Client platform.
We are very happy to announce release 1.0.0 of the EMF Client Platform (ECP)!
In the last part of my Eclipse 4 (e4) tutorial, I describe details about how to control the parameters injected using the annotations @Inject, @Named and @Optional.
The modeling symposium at EclipseCon North America 2013 takes place on Tuesday, March 26th from 5pm-6pm (see https://www.
When it comes to UI testing of Eclipse plug-ins and RCP applications, one usually looks first in the open source project SWTBot or Jubula.
Defining APIs is crucial to maintaining modularity. OSGi defines the concepts necessary for API definition such as a service concept and package visibility.
Yesterday, the Eclipse Awards nominations closed and the voting began. As democracy only works with a high voter participation, please make sure you vote (for me :-) before February 22nd:
I am happy to announce that Ed and I are organizing the Modeling Symposium for EclipseCon North America 2013.
Two years ago, when Git and EGit were gathering speed in the Eclipse world, I published a tutorial for beginners describing step-by-step the basic use cases for EGit.
Since e4 technology and concepts are in every Juno release and will be downloaded millions of times, many projects are currently evaluating why, when and how to migrate to the Eclipse 4 (e4) Application platform.
Developing software is a pretty abstract job. In many cases you don’t really “see” what’s happening.
This year we are again very happy to be hosting an Eclipse November DemoCamp in Munich.
Looking at all the interesting talks in the EclipseCon Schedule, many people wonder which talks to attend.
This tutorial series introduces the new features and concepts of the Eclipse 4 Application Platform, as well as interesting tools and technologies related to the current major release of Eclipse.
Ed and I are organizing the Modeling Symposium for EclipseCon Europe.
The deadline for EclipseCon Europe early bird submissions is approaching (July 15th).
We have just completed a service release (0.9.2) for EMF Client Platform and EMFStore.
In the previous parts of this tutorial series we described how to create an application model and link those elements to implementations.
From the Application Model to the Implementation of Views This tutorial series introduces the core concepts of the Eclipse 4 Application Platform (e4).
In exactly three weeks, Eclipse Juno will be released. Many great Eclipse projects will participate in this annual release train.
This tutorial series introduces the new concepts in the Eclipse 4 Application Platform, aka RCP 2.
You might have seen me waving and moving around a lot recently during presentations at Democamps and during my talks at EclipseCon’s.
Thank you to everyone who attended or gave a talk at the modeling symposium.
We’re happy to announce the agenda for the modeling symposium at EclipseCon North America 2012 in Reston, VA.
Hi, Ed and I are organizing the Modeling Symposium for EclipseCon North America (see here).
Ed and I are organizing the Modeling Symposium for EclipseCon North America.
This has been blogged about before by me and other guys, but as I still constantly experience this problem, a little repetition won’t hurt :-)
We had a great Democamp and birthday party in Munich. Thanks go to all the speakers, volunteers and attendees!
In Munich, we are currently looking forward to two events: The last week-end at the Oktober Fest and even more important the Eclipse Stammtisch on upcoming Tuesday 6pm.
Sorry for the eye catcher, I meant “München” :-) To shorten the time until EclipseCon Europe, we cordially invite you to the Eclipse Stammtisch München on October 4th.
The results of the evaluations for the EclipseCon 2011 talks and tutorials is out.
This is the second part of the tutorial presented at EclipseCon.
So this is my first post at the new location. As Jochen announced earlier, Maximilian and me are joining EclipseSource in Munich.
The data template mechanism allows defining template instances of EObjects, which can be used as a basis when creating new instances, e.
EMF Forms provides three ready-to-use editors, which can be integrated into any kind of Eclipse IDE or RCP application:
This guide describes necessary steps and relevant changes when updating to a new version of EMF Forms.
This tutorial gives an introduction to the RCP Testing Tool. The tool used to be commercial and was named “Q7”, in 2014 it has been renamed and released as an open source project.