Have you had the experience of creating an interesting application, exporting it, generating a p2 repository, connecting to your repository, and *BAM*, nothing there! The reason this happens is because you likely didn't categorize your repository. Consider the following: I have created three fun games for Cell Phones: Tetris, Snakes and Pong. Of course, to implement these I used eSWT, eRCP, ECF, GEF, EMF, OCL, BIRT...
Read MoreEver wanted to get a print out of all components that make up a piece of UI? This little recursive snippet does that for you. [code lang="java"] private void printChildren(Composite composite, int count) { StringBuilder spaces = new StringBuilder(count * 2); for (int i = 0; i < count * 2; i++) { spaces.append(' '); } for (Control c : composite.getChildren())...
Read MoreTell the OSGi and Equinox book authors what OSGi services you want to know about...
Read MoreIn previous blog posts I've blogged about ECF's upcoming implementation of RFC 119. In this post, I would like to jump out of the description of RFC 119 and talk about how the implementation of RFC 119 and ECF remote services fit together...
Read MoreJeff McAffer demonstrates the use of p2 and some custom extensions to do remote provisioning and central management of Equinox and OSGi based systems....
Read MoreIt's almost time for the Eclipse Galileo release and the Eclipse Foundation is looking for some input on choosing the next graphic for Galileo. If you have some artistic skills or just want to express an opinion, do it on this bug. Here are some of the front runners now: ...
Read MoreEclipse 3.5 M7 is out! Get it while it's hot! (new and noteworthy) Note this is the last major milestone release of Eclipse for Galileo and marks feature freeze. No more new features after this milestone, only bug fixes until the Galileo release in late June. Here are some of my favorite noteworthy items: SWT.SHEET support Improved PDE Target Provisioning Support PDE API Tooling Comparisons I hope you enjoy the...
Read MoreFor those who follow me on Twitter, know that I and Firefox don't get along. I just want to browse the web, and Firefox just wants to eat memory and crash all the time. However, I was pleasantly surprised when Firefox crashed and offered me a chance to give feedback: I was so thrilled at this opportunity and thought about doing something like this in Eclipse...
Read MoreI've been doing bundle development for a very long time so I have a lot of fantasies of how we can improve development workflows. One of my fantasies while working with my target platform has been to have it automatically provisioned to me based on some requirements. Well, I'm happy to report that PDE now supports provisioning your target platform from a repository (as of...
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