Last week Wim Jongman bloged about the Nebula Oscilloscope widget. It's just an awesome widget for monitoring activity. See Wim's post to form an opinion yourself. So, for me as a RAP developer, the first question I always ask myself when seeing such a cool thing is: "Will it run on RAP?". I followed the steps Wim described to get the Oscilloscope running, changed the target...
Read MoreDid you ever wanted to know how features find their way into Eclipse and became a part of a huge release like Eclipse Helios? What role do committers play? What is the part of the community? How do different projects collaborate with each other? For all of you Benjamin Muskalla and I will give the answer on the Eclipse Helios DemoCamp in Darmstadt on July the 14th. If...
Read MoreAs part of the new Eclipse Helios, the Rich Ajax Platform project released version 1.3. If you'd like to know what is new in RAP 1.3, here's a short screencast. You can find a more detailed version on the RAP 1.3 New and Noteworthy page. Thanks to the community for all the hard work that made this great release possible. Of course, we are currently making plans for...
Read MoreTwo weeks ago I asked you to think about high quality software that has been consistently delivered on-time. Think about software that is used by millions of people world-wide, built by hundreds of developers, free to use and open to everybody and anybody. Think about software that spans domains, runs on the smallest of devices and powers the worlds largest enterprises. Any ideas? Yes I'm talking...
Read MoreOnly 1 more day until Eclipse Helios is release and we are down to my Top 2 features. Over the life of Eclipse (Jeff McAffer tells me that he's been working on Eclipse since 1999) a lot has changed. Eclipse started its life inside OTI/IBM. In November 2001 the Eclipse Consortium was announced and Eclipse was released as 'Open Source'. For the next few...
Read MoreWell here we are, it's release week. Eclipse 3.6 -- Helios -- will be available on Wednesday June 23rd. It also means that I'm into my Top 3 features for this years release. For the past 7 days I've been presenting some of the New and Noteworthy features of this years release. Number 3 on my Top 10 list is EMF, Riena and RAP integration. I'll be...
Read MoreAs most of you know, Eclipse Helios will be released next week. For regular readers of my blog (and PlanetEclipse.org), you know that I've been counting down some of the new features available in this release. During this series I have received comments (both in the comment fields, and on places like twitter) that essentially read: I really like Eclipse except it doesn't have an...
Read MoreThe official Helios release is less than 1 week away, and we are now into the Top 5 Features that I'm most excited about. Over the past week I've been highlighting some of upcoming features of the Eclipse Helios release. These features include: improvements to the Java Development Tools, Plug-in Development Environment, API Tools and the Eclipse Platform. Number 5 on my Top...
Read MoreThere are three large groups of artifacts that play a key role while writing software. There are the tools you use, the code you write and the libraries you depend on. There is a large body of research studying the cognitive support provided by software development tools. There is also a number of tool centric development models. Facilities like Yoxos and the...
Read MoreAs Eclipse committers, we spend lots of time emphasizing that Eclipse is not just an Integrated Development Environment. Eclipse is a framework, a tooling platform, a collection of run-time technologies, an eco-system, etc...
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