In this article we´ll answer the most frequently asked questions about the Eclipse Theia IDE, the open source platform for building web- and cloud-based IDEs and Tools. This article provides an overview, quick answers and references to follow up reads. What is the Eclipse Theia? Eclipse Theia is an open source platform for building web- and cloud-based tools and IDEs. Possible use cases range from providing custom...
Read MoreThis week, Eclipse 2019-12 has been released, a new version of the Eclipse IDE and platform. The new release contains a lot of useful improvements and includes Java 13 support. Holger Voormann provides once more great videos summarizing the improvements in the Java IDE, the platform and in EGit, which we are happy to share (please see below) As always, in case you use our EclipseSource...
Read MoreWe are happy to announce that with the Eclipse Release 2019-12, we have also shipped EMF Forms and EMF Client Platform 1.23.0! EMF Forms continues to be one of the most active projects at Eclipse with a very stable development activity. Again, we want to thank our continuously active team of 9 contributors (42 contributors overall) for completing 21 bug fixes and features!”. Thanks to those of...
Read MoreDo you want to build a web-based modeling tool? Do you know the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) and want to use its benefits in the browser? Do you want to migrate an existing EMF-based tool to the cloud? Then keep on reading! This article introduces a new Eclipse project called EMF.cloud. As the name implies, it is about using the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) and the...
Read MoreIn this article, we compare the Eclipse Theia IDE with VS Code. We focus on the scenario of using these technologies as a basis for custom extensions as well as for the implementation of a domain-specific tool. So if you wonder which of the two ecosystems/platforms you should build your custom tool chain on, keep on reading! There is quite some confusion going on when looking...
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