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Eclipse (SWT) throws an NPE in TaskItem on MacOS
I was struggling to track down an NPE in the Yoxos Launcher that only happened on MacOS. To help others avoid this, I thought I would share the problem (and solution). The stack trace was as follows: …
The votes are counted and the results are in!
The EclipseCon program committee has voted on the early bird selections. Congratulations to these five speakers. - Shawn Pearce, Scaling Up JGit - Jake Wharton, Bootstrapping Android Apps with Open …
Running RAP 2.0 powered Web Application Bundles (WAB) on Virgo
With the latest RAP 2.0 milestone M2[1], you can run RAP based Web Application Bundles (WAB) with the unmodified RAP artifacts installed into your Virgo Jetty Server[2]. No more Eclipse buddy …
Eclipse Kepler Milestone 3, available for download
In many parts of North America we turn our clocks back one hour this weekend. If you’re looking for something to do with all this extra time you’ll have, why not download the latest Eclipse SDK 4.3 …
Integrating Gson into a JAX-RS based application
Creating modern applications often involves consuming REST based web services. One of the more popular ways to publish a REST service in Java is the JAX-RS (Jersey) specification. It allows you to …
A secure user account system with Eclipse RAP
Recently, I developed a “user account” system for a customer’s Eclipse RAP application. Here are a few do’s and don’ts, which I learned in the process. To provide some context: Users can perform …