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e4 and RAP

Feb 20, 2009

For those of you who don’t know, RAP (the Rich Ajax Platform) provides the ability to run your Eclipse application on a server and have the UI served up in the browser using Ajax techniques. e4 is the …

p2 in a non-eclipse system

Feb 19, 2009

Somebody asked me a great question the other day, can p2 be used in non-eclipse systems? This is a great question because I think it highlights the fact that we don’t always make newcomers aware of …

Mike Wilson: New Eclipse PMC lead

Feb 18, 2009

Those of you following the recent discussion in the Eclipse PMC mailing list will know that Philippe Mulet, our fearless leader is changing his focus some. Philippe has done a great job over the past …

Unit testing revelations

Feb 17, 2009

The other day I experienced an unexpected light bulb moment concerning unit testing. Maybe this one is obvious to most of you, but I wish someone would have told me earlier. So here goes. My biggest …

Extending p2 for fun and profit

Feb 16, 2009

On Monday March 23rd at EclipseCon, I’m helping to deliver a tutorial on one of the most significant platform-level changes made in the Eclipse Ganymede release. The tutorial is on p2, the new …

OSGi Tooling Summit

Feb 12, 2009

I recently blogged how excited I was about the OSGi Tooling BOF at EclipseCon, but it seems that the OSGi Alliance has outdone itself. The alliance is hosting an OSGi Tooling Summit right after …