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Target Platform Provisioning

Apr 29, 2009

I’ve been doing bundle development for a very long time so I have a lot of fantasies of how we can improve development workflows. One of my fantasies while working with my target platform has...

Comparing API Baselines

Apr 28, 2009

In Eclipse 3.5, the PDE team has been hard at work improving the API Tools component. One of the new exciting features we have planned for Eclipse 3.5 M7 is comparing baselines. To compare an API...

ECF and RFC119 - D'oh-SGi

Apr 28, 2009

There’s a bug open for ECF to figure out a better/real name for it’s implementation of RFC 119. Soon, we’re going to have an online vote to decide the winning name…but I...

Having fun with detached views!

Apr 25, 2009

Yesterday, I had fun investigating how to open “detached” views progammatically. Click to watch: https://www.screencast.com/t/5ku89HjBNs You can find this on Bug #270212, where we are...

Export into the Host Eclipse

Apr 23, 2009

In the traditional RCP development workflow, you find yourself self-hosting a lot. If you don’t know what self-hosting means, it’s simply the process of launching a new Eclipse instance...

Summer of Code -- Congratulations students

Apr 22, 2009

20 Eclipse projects were accepted this year for Google Summer of Code and you can see the complete list here: https://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/eclipse Congratulations to all the...