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Lending a hand with the Eclipse SDK

Jan 28, 2012

Shipping Eclipse each year is a lot of work. The SDK contains code from 3 Top level projects (Eclipse, RT and Tools (Orbit)). There are 4+ Products (Platform, JDT, PDE , Equinox + Releng) and close to...

Javascript validation with JSHint in Eclipse

Jan 26, 2012

Besides all the Java code in the RAP project, we also have more than 250 JavaScript files which total up to 75k lines of code. For such an amount of code, you should have some kind of code analysis...

OSGi JAX-RS connector: Publishing REST services

Jan 23, 2012

In a recent blog post Peter Kriens commented that the OSGi service model is as important as object-orientation. I feel the same - I don’t want to write software without this concept anymore. But...

Continuous Integration Tests for REST APIs with Maven, Jetty and restfuse

Jan 17, 2012

Editor’s note: The Restfuse project is no longer maintained and has been archived. However, you can still access the sources on GitHub. As you might know from previous posts, most of my work...

Modeling Symposium

Jan 5, 2012

Ed and I are organizing the Modeling Symposium for EclipseCon North America. It is scheduled for the first day of the conference, i.e., Monday, March 23rd at 1pm. The symposium aims to provide a forum...

Eclipse Juno M4: RAP speaks JSON

Dec 16, 2011

In the RAP framework, the widgets in a website are remotely controlled by the web server. The server does this by sending messages to the client in response to Ajax requests. Until now, those messages...