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. Equinox p2 makes the revert process sane compared to the old Eclipse Update story. So everyone knows, to revert to a previous configuration of an Eclipse install, this is what you do...
Read MoreEclipse 3.5.1 was just released! This is a service release as part of the Eclipse Galileo release train. Inside Eclipse, you can use p2 to update with this URL: https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.5/R-3.5.1-200909170800 If you're only interested in Equinox, you can grab it here: https://download.eclipse.org/equinox/drops/R-3.5.1-200909170800/ Finally the readme is here: https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/readme_eclipse_3.5.1.html So what are you waiting for, update to get the latest bugfixes! If you want to live on the bleeding edge, check out the latest...
Read MoreGit has been gaining some traction in the Eclipse community as of late. From the birth of the EGit project at Eclipse and the recent approval of JGit to be hosted at Eclipse as a sub project of the EGit project, good things are coming. Why should you care about Git? Git is pretty popular these days as evident by some of the open source projects out...
Read MoreI recently blogged about the OSGi EventAdmin service and got some good feedback. I like to inform people of some more things that came to light about EventAdmin. First, I added a template in PDE for the OSGi EventAdmin service that will make its debut in Eclipse 3.6 M3: It basically uses OSGi Declarative Services to register an EventHandler that listens for the bundle started event...
Read MoreI recently had a few people come to me to chat about the OSGi EventAdmin service. For those who are curious, the EventAdmin service is part of the OSGi Compendium Specification and allows you to publish and listen to events via a pub-sub system. I'll try to do a quick write up on how to actually use the service. As with any OSGi service, the...
Read MoreLast weekend, I attended EclipseDay at the Googleplex with about 200 other people. The day was filled with great talks and special thanks to our Google hosts for making the show really smooth. The majority of the presentations have their slides posted now, here are some of my favorite talks: Eclipse in NASA Mission Control Jeff Norris offered a fascinating story of how NASA is adopting Eclipse...
Read MoreI spoke with a Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) committer briefly today and he reminded me that the RAP team recently released 1.3 Milestone 1 to the world. This release marks the first milestone towards the Eclipse Helios release and includes some interesting features like rounded corners, gradients and support for cheatsheets. For those people interested in single sourcing their Eclipse RCP applications, they will be pleased...
Read MoreThis Thursday, Google is graciously hosting an EclipseDay At Googleplex. There will be talks on topics like Distributed OSGi, Eclipse at NASA and Android. Here's a peak at the full schedule: If you're interested in attending, the registration list is already full, however, there is a waiting list you can signup for. If you can't attend, don't worry as Google is planning to record and release...
Read MoreIf 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. PAX Runner uses the PDE org.eclipse.pde.ui.osgiFrameworks extension point to supply frameworks. To install PAX Runner, simply add their repository via software installation wizard. There's an important thing to note about PAX Runner. When you're self-hosting with a PAX Runner based...
Read MoreGood news, Eclipse 3.6 M1 is out and available for download (new and noteworthy)! Why is this good news? Well, this marks the beginning of the regular heart beat of the Eclipse release cycle. The next release train is called Helios and is due out June 23rd, 2010. This week the Eclipse Planning Council finalized the dates for the Helios milestones: Helios M1 8/7 - 8/21 Helios M2...
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