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RAP 2.0 M2 - JSON protocol migration complete

Oct 5, 2012

During the last weeks the RAP team has been busy lifting RAP’s client-to-server communication to the JSON protocol. That was a lot of work, and we finished it just in time for Kepler M2. With...

My Eclipse 4 (e4) EclipseCon Schedule

Oct 1, 2012

Looking at all the interesting talks in the EclipseCon Schedule, many people wonder which talks to attend. This obviously depends on the topics you are interested. So imagine I would only be...

RAP 1.5.1 released

Oct 1, 2012

Just in time, the first service release for RAP 1.5 has been published on Friday. It adds a dozen bugfixes to RAP 1.5. We always backport fixes very carefully in order to maintain the stability of the...

Mythbuster: Android annotation performance unravelled

Sep 28, 2012

Over the last few weeks I have been involved in a lot of discussions whether it is justified to use Android frameworks that rely on a lot of annotation processing. There have been several bug reports...

EGit Tip: Keep up-to-date with Fetch and Rebase

Sep 26, 2012

There are several good reasons to use a Rebase Workflow with Git, such as the ability to keep a linear history. However, when I started using the Git Plugin for Eclipse I was unsure of how to follow...

Advanced Android testing with RoboGuice and Robolectric

Sep 25, 2012

I’ve been using the Android framework RoboGuice 2.0 a lot lately. RoboGuice is an extension for the Google Guice dependency injection framework that adds several Android specific mechanisms to...