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Using the Whiteboard Pattern with RAP
When adopting the Whiteboard Pattern for one of our Eclipse RAP based web applications, we stumbled upon a problem concerning the session scope of events. Here’s how we solved it. The Whiteboard...
Eclipse 2014
In exactly three weeks, Eclipse Juno will be released. Many great Eclipse projects will participate in this annual release train. If I’ve counted correctly, it will be the seventh release with a...
Cleaner Code with Guava Optionals and Preconditions
Working towards clean code is a priority for me when I develop software. For some time I’ve been using Google Guava for nearly all my projects. The reason is simple. Guava provides great...
Does the Google App Engine still matter?
Although it started three years ago with the promise of almost infinite scalability and a big echo in the community, it has become quiet around the Google App Engine. Google trends reveals that search...
Understanding the p2.index file
Lately the p2.index file (or lack thereof) has caused a serious problem for the Eclipse foundation infrastructure. Denis highlighted the problems the file causes, but I thought it might help us...
Tycho, Maven and p2.inf
Today I spent some time on the RAP Tools build which is based on Tycho. The problem that I tried to solve had to do with our recent ID renaming of the RAP Tools feature to a more appropriate...