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06 Apr

Eclipse Target Platform Definition DSL and Generator

by Jonas Helming and Maximilian Koegel
in Planet Eclipse
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Target 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...

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23 Mar

EclipseSource Oomph Profile – updated to Oxygen.3

by Jonas Helming and Maximilian Koegel
in Planet Eclipse
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This 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...

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21 Mar

EMF Forms and EMF Client Platform 1.16.0 released!

by Jonas Helming and Maximilian Koegel
in Planet Eclipse
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We 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...

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16 Mar

JSON Forms 2.0 reaches Orbit

by Jonas Helming and Maximilian Koegel
in Planet Eclipse
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Today, 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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31 Jan

EMF Forms 1.15.0 Feature: Enhanced Table Renderer

by Jonas Helming and Maximilian Koegel
in Planet Eclipse
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EMF Forms makes it easy to create forms that can 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 1.15.0 release: The enhanced table renderer. The enhanced table renderer adds useful features, such as filtering, column visibility, and several style options to...

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26 Jan

EDAPT 1.3.0 released!

by Jonas Helming and Maximilian Koegel
in Planet Eclipse
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We are happy to announce that, we have released  EDAPT 1.3.0! We want to thank all committers and contributors for their work as well as all users and adopters for the feedback and support! EDAPT is a framework to support the migration of model instances in case of a model change (in your Ecore model). If you are not yet familiar with EDAPT, please refer to...

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21 Dec

EclipseSource Oomph Profile – updated to Oxygen.2

by Jonas Helming and Maximilian Koegel
in Planet Eclipse
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Yesterday, Oxygen.2 has been released, a new version of the Eclipse IDE and platform. It contains many useful improvements, so it is worth to update. One small but useful improvement we especially like is the enhanced EGit staging view. It provides new buttons to stage and unstage files (selected one or all), as well as to sort the unstaged changes. Further, the context menu directly...

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