eclipse – EclipseSource

20 Jun

Welcome (at Eclipse), Theia!

Although there hasn’t yet been a big official announcement (except Svens blog last week), one of the most interesting Eclipse project proposals in recent years was approved a couple of weeks ago. So what is this all about? In a nutshell, it is a new platform to build modern IDEs and tools based on web technologies. It was open source and available before it even...

19 Jun

Web-based vs. desktop-based Tools

by Jonas Helming and Maximilian Koegel

in Planet Eclipse

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It is clear that there is an ongoing excitement surrounding web-based IDEs and tools, e.g. Eclipse Che, Eclipse Theia, Visual Studio Code, Atom or Eclipse Orion. If you attended recent presentations or read current announcements, you may get the feeling that desktop IDEs have already been deprecated. But is this really true? If you ask developers for the tools they use in their daily work,...

30 May

Eclipse Target Platform Definition DSL and Generator

by Jonas Helming and Maximilian Koegel

in Planet Eclipse

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Target Platform definitions are a way to define from where Eclipse-based projects obtain their dependencies. They provide many benefits, but in case you still need more convincing please see here. However, defining, updating, and especially applying target platform definitions in Eclipse-based projects has always been extremely cumbersome. There are two main reasons for this: First, typical target platforms are a complex configuration of third-party bundles, which sometimes...

28 Mar

EMF Forms 1.16.0 Feature: Improved Template Model Tooling

by Jonas Helming and Maximilian Koegel

in Planet Eclipse

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EMF Forms makes it easy to create forms that are able to edit your data based on an EMF model. To get started with EMF Forms please refer to our tutorial. In this post, we would like to outline a new feature in the 1.16.0 release: The improved template model tooling. A template model allows you to customize the way in which EMF Forms displays...

23 Mar

EclipseSource Oomph Profile – updated to Oxygen.3

by Jonas Helming and Maximilian Koegel

in Planet Eclipse

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This week, Oxygen.3 has been released, a new version of the Eclipse IDE and platform. It contains useful improvements, especially in terms of performance, so it is worth to update. Further Eclipse Oxygen.3 is ready for Java 10 support, which is already available as a pre-release from the market place On April 11th Oxygen.3a will be released, directly contained Java 10 support. These and further improvements are...

21 Mar

EMF Forms and EMF Client Platform 1.16.0 released!

by Jonas Helming and Maximilian Koegel

in Planet Eclipse

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We are happy to announce with the Oxygen.3 release train, we have also shipped EMF Forms and EMF Client Platform 1.16.0! We want to thank our continuously active team of 11 contributors (40 contributors overall) for completing on 49 bug reports and feature requests. EMF Forms continues to be one of the most active projects at Eclipse. As several statistics show, we are also proud on...

16 Mar

JSON Forms 2.0 reaches Orbit

by Jonas Helming and Maximilian Koegel

in Planet Eclipse

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Today, we are happy to announce the the 2.0 release of JSON Forms. This release is a major milestone for us as it is the result of several months of work during which we did a lot of exploration, prototyping and finally implementation. In case you don’t know JSON Forms: It is a framework for efficiently developing form-based UIs for the web. It therefore provides...

20 Feb

Join the virtual Che Conf 2018 tomorrow, February 21st

by Jonas Helming and Maximilian Koegel

in Planet Eclipse

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See you at the Che Conf 2018 The Che Conf 2018 will take place tomorrow, Feb 21st starting at 10 am EST. For Europeans, it is a nice evening event to watch. The good thing about this conference is that it is free to attend and you can join it from your desk or even from your couch. Even more important, it provides interesting content about...

31 Jan

EMF Forms 1.15.0 Feature: Enhanced Table Renderer

by Jonas Helming and Maximilian Koegel

in Planet Eclipse

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EMF Forms makes it easy to create forms that can edit your data based on an EMF model. To get started with EMF Forms please refer to our tutorial. In this post, we would like to outline a new feature in the 1.15.0 release: The enhanced table renderer. The enhanced table renderer adds useful features, such as filtering, column visibility, and several style options to...

26 Jan

EDAPT 1.3.0 released!

by Jonas Helming and Maximilian Koegel

in Planet Eclipse

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We are happy to announce that, we have released EDAPT 1.3.0! We want to thank all committers and contributors for their work as well as all users and adopters for the feedback and support! EDAPT is a framework to support the migration of model instances in case of a model change (in your Ecore model). If you are not yet familiar with EDAPT, please refer to...