In this article we will describe the basic concepts of dependency injection with inversify, which are required to implement extensions for Eclipse Theia. The main two use cases are (1) to use a service or a class provided by the platform and (2) to contribute an extension to the platform. In both cases, inversify is the glue between your extension and Theia. Eclipse Theia is a...
Read MoreUpdate 1: As of October 31, 2018 Firefox will postpone the change probably to its Firefox 65 release planned for January 29, 2019. Update 2: It's confirmed that the change will be included in Firefox 65. Prepare for a significant change in how Firefox works with the Remote Application Platform (RAP) Eclipse RAP (Remote Application Platform) runs in all relevant web browsers, without any add-ons required. Only JavaScript...
Read MoreIn September, Eclipse 2018-09 has been released, a new version of the Eclipse IDE and platform. It contains many useful improvements, so it is worth to update. It is the first release following the new release cycle with four equal releases per year. One of many noteworthy extensions is the new minimap view, which provides a complete overview of opened documents. It allows to browser files...
Read MoreWe are happy to announce that with the Eclipse Release 2018-09, we have also shipped EMF Forms and EMF Client Platform 1.18.0! We want to thank our continuously active team of 11 contributors (41 contributors overall) for completing 50 bug fixes and features. EMF Forms continues to be one of the most active projects at Eclipse with a very stable development activity: As announced during the...
Read MoreThe Eclipse Remote Application Platform (RAP) is a stable, feature complete framework, that allows you to develop modern web UIs for all relevant web browsers. The project has been around for more than 12 years, and with this blog post, we want to present the new features from RAP versions 3.3 to 3.6. For those who joined the RAP community recently, it is worth to mention...
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