This week, Eclipse 2020-06 has been released two weeks ago, a new version of the Eclipse IDE and platform. The new release contains a lot of useful improvements and includes Java 14 support. Holger Voormann provides once more great videos summarizing the improvements in the Java IDE, which we are happy to share (please see below) As always, in case you use our EclipseSource Oomph profile...
Read MoreThis article provides an overview on how to develop a Eclipse Theia plugin and thereby extend the Theia IDE with new and custom features. Please note that there are two ways of extending Eclipse Theia: plugins and extensions. This article focuses on plugins, please also see our related articles for a comparison of Theia plugins and extensions and on how to develop extensions for Theia. Probably...
Read MoreWe are happy to announce that with the Eclipse Release 2020-03, we have also shipped EMF Forms and EMF Client Platform 1.24.0! All closed tickets in 1.24.0 can be found here and all “test” bug reports can be found here. Please see here for a more detailed description of this tag. Please note that for the upcoming iteration, until 2020-06, we plan to do some clean up...
Read MoreIn this article we´ll answer the most frequently asked questions about the Eclipse Theia IDE, the open source platform for building web- and cloud-based IDEs and Tools. This article provides an overview, quick answers and references to follow up reads. What is the Eclipse Theia? Eclipse Theia is an open source platform for building web- and cloud-based tools and IDEs. Possible use cases range from providing custom...
Read MoreThis week, Eclipse 2019-12 has been released, a new version of the Eclipse IDE and platform. The new release contains a lot of useful improvements and includes Java 13 support. Holger Voormann provides once more great videos summarizing the improvements in the Java IDE, the platform and in EGit, which we are happy to share (please see below) As always, in case you use our EclipseSource...
Read MoreWe are happy to announce that with the Eclipse Release 2019-12, we have also shipped EMF Forms and EMF Client Platform 1.23.0! EMF Forms continues to be one of the most active projects at Eclipse with a very stable development activity. Again, we want to thank our continuously active team of 9 contributors (42 contributors overall) for completing 21 bug fixes and features!”. Thanks to those of...
Read MoreDo you want to build a web-based modeling tool? Do you know the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) and want to use its benefits in the browser? Do you want to migrate an existing EMF-based tool to the cloud? Then keep on reading! This article introduces a new Eclipse project called EMF.cloud. As the name implies, it is about using the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) and the...
Read MoreIn this article, we compare the Eclipse Theia IDE with VS Code. We focus on the scenario of using these technologies as a basis for custom extensions as well as for the implementation of a domain-specific tool. So if you wonder which of the two ecosystems/platforms you should build your custom tool chain on, keep on reading! There is quite some confusion going on when looking...
Read MoreIn this article, we provide an overview on how to extend the Eclipse Theia IDE with custom extensions. We will show how to create a Theia extension, how it is structured and how to develop it by adding your own features. Please note that there are two ways of extending the Eclipse Theia IDE, one being extensions, the other one being plugins. This article is...
Read MoreIn this article series we provide an overview of how to get started with Eclipse Che. In this first part, we will describe how to easily install it and launch your own instance of Eclipse Che. If you are interested and want to try out Eclipse Che and see it in action, keep on reading. In case you are wondering what Eclipse Che is, please...
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