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Eclipse -- Managing your upgrade path

Mar 8, 2011

What’s the latest version of Eclipse? Which version of Mylyn works well with Eclipse 3.6.2? How do you configure a toolchain for a project that was developed with Eclipse 3.5? As an Eclipse committer …

Dining philosophers using OSGi (Equinox) data service locations

Mar 4, 2011

In p2, if you’ve ever tried to write to the same artifact.xml (artifact repository) from two different processes, you will quickly learn that this fails. In fact, both processes will start corrupting …

An open source visual editor for Rich Internet Applications - the Eclipse way

Feb 21, 2011

A few weeks ago Google announced their WindowBuilder contribution to the Eclipse Foundation. The WindowBuilder was originally created by Instantiations and moved to Google after they swallowed …

Tagging Eclipse for the next integration build

Feb 15, 2011

For anyone who follows the Eclipse developer mailing lists, you might notice the weekly e-mails regarding the tagging process. The e-mails usually describe which bundles have been tagged and which …

Let's run together at EclipseCon 2011

Feb 12, 2011

38 days left until EclipseCon – Sure, you’ve registered, booked the flight and hotel, checked your passport. Next: pack your running shoes! Continuing the annual tradition started by Darin, we are …

How to build a Server-Side Equinox/RAP Application

Feb 7, 2011

When you face the task of building a Server-Side Equinox or a RAP application (which is just a Server-Side Equinox application) you need to choose a build system from a fairly diverse palette. This …