From the Application Model to the Implementation of Views This tutorial series introduces the core concepts of the Eclipse 4 Application Platform (e4). One of the key innovations of e4 is the separation and independance between the application model and the implementation of the application’s parts, such as view. In the first part of this tutorial we provided an overview of the application model, as well...
Read MoreIn exactly three weeks, Eclipse Juno will be released. Many great Eclipse projects will participate in this annual release train. If I've counted correctly, it will be the seventh release with a dedicated name: Callisto, Europa, Ganymede, Galileo, Helios, Indigo and Juno. The name of next year's release has already been decided: Kepler. This follows the notion of having the names of the releases follow...
Read MoreWe are proud to announce the release version 0.9.0 of EMFStore! For those of you who don’t know EMFStore, it is a server solution for EMF entities or 'model repository'. EMFStore allows parallel and distributed editing of entities, supporting continuous offline work. This means that a client can modify the available entities until it decides that a set of changes is consistent and should be shared...
Read MoreThis tutorial series introduces the new concepts in the Eclipse 4 Application Platform, aka RCP 2.0. While some projects still use the compatibility layer, it is worthwhile to look at and benefit from the new concepts. This tutorial and all other parts of the series are available as a downloadable PDF. We will start with the foundation of every Eclipse 4 application, the application model. In...
Read MoreYou might have seen me waving and moving around a lot recently during presentations at Democamps and during my talks at EclipseCon's. The reason is not a new style in giving talks, but it is the topic: the Jnect project. The goal of this project is to connect the Microsoft Kinect SDK with Eclipse/Java. In case you do not know the Kinect, it is a device...
Read MoreThank you to everyone who attended or gave a talk at the modeling symposium. I think we had a very interesting event and we got very good feedback. Maybe the symposium should become an regulary event at EclipseCon's. I would like to share the links to the presentations, which were shared with me. If you gave a talk and your slides are missing, please send me...
Read MoreWe're happy to announce the agenda for the modeling symposium at EclipseCon North America 2012 in Reston, VA. The symposium takes place on Monday afternoon, March 26th. You'll find more information about the location under https://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/modeling-symposium. The goal of the symposium is to provide an overview of what’s hot and new in the modeling area. We therefore decided to provide many short slots. Marcelo Paternostro will open the...
Read MoreHi, Ed and I are organizing the Modeling Symposium for EclipseCon North America (see here). Thank you for all the interesting submissions so far. To notify people early enough about the acceptance of their submission, we need to set a final deadline to February 8th. Please make sure to send me your submission before this deadline. Looking forward to your submissions! Jonas...
Read MoreEd and I are organizing the Modeling Symposium for EclipseCon North America. It is scheduled for the first day of the conference, i.e., Monday, March 23rd at 1pm. The symposium aims to provide a forum for community members to present a brief overview of their work. We offer 10 minute lightning slots (including questions) to facilitate a broad range of speakers. The primary goal is...
Read MoreThis has been blogged about before by me and other guys, but as I still constantly experience this problem, a little repetition won't hurt :-) In many projects you see the result of System.out.println() statements on the console: statements such as "here I am" or "this should not happen". These are often left-overs from debugging sessions and flood the log. Although, I personally think there are...
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