With the Mars Release, we released EMF Forms 1.6.0. EMF Forms makes it really simple to create forms, which edit your data based on an EMF model. To get started with EMF Forms please refer to our tutorial. One of the major things we worked on for the 1.6 release was a refactoring of the rendering architecture of EMF Forms. The goal was to improve the...
Read MoreWe are happy to announce that together with Mars we have released EMF Forms and EMF Client Platform 1.6.0! We want to thank all committers and all contributors for their work as well as the active ecosystem of users and adopters for the feedback and support! EMF Forms is a framework focused on the creation of form-based UIs. EMF Client Platform is designed to support the...
Read MoreThis week, the third major version of RAP, the Eclipse Remote Application Platform, has been released. As a major release, RAP 3.0 cleaned up deprecated API, allowing us to change and to optimize internals. I'm happy to report that we achieved a significant performance boost compared to 2.3. Before I go into details, let's look at some results. Performance Tests To evaluate the performance of RAP 3.0,...
Read MoreEclipse Mars is here! Over the past 10 days I've been counting down the Top 10 Eclipse Mars features I'm most excited about. 10. Mac Application Layout 9. Platform Improvements 8. UI Monitoring 7. C/C++ Launching 6. e4 Tools 5. JDT Improvements 4. Docker Tools 3. Git Flow in Eclipse 2. Eclipse Automatic Error Reporting 1. The Oomph Installer This year Eclipse offers a completely new way to download and work with the IDE. Instead of...
Read MoreIt's good to be back. After using half-year release cycles for the RAP 2.x versions, taking a full year for RAP 3.0 felt eerily long. On the other hand I think it was exactly the time we needed to create a release that we can be proud of. While there was some debate the last time we increased the major version number (going from 1.x to...
Read MoreBy this time tomorrow, Eclipse Mars will have shipped. We will be enjoying many of the new features including improved Git support, docker tools, and a number of Java tool enhancements. But before Eclipse Mars ships, I still have two more entries in my Eclipse Mars 10 Top Features list. Number 2 on my list the automated error reporting. Instead of simply logging errors to the console,...
Read MoreAfter 12 months of work, almost 80 projects, 380 committers, 352 contributors, and 65 million lines of code, we've finally arrived at Eclipse release week. Eclipse will ship on Wednesday June 24th, and that means we've arrived at the Top 3 Features in my annual Eclipse Top 10 List. Eclipse has shipped with Git support since 2011. While the tool has improved significantly over the years, many developers...
Read MoreEclipse Mars is just around the corner. As the Eclipse team is hard at work putting the finishing touches on everything, I'm traveling Europe, presenting about Tabris.js and J2V8 and counting down the Top 10 Eclipse Mars features I'm most excited about. Throughout my day I work on several different projects. I'm responsible for Eclipse work, infrastructure, J2V8 builds and Tabris.js android integration. I work with...
Read MoreEclipse Mars will ship on Wednesday June 24th. While Eclipse can be used for C, C++, JavaScript, PHP and many other languages, many people still consider Eclipse a Java IDE, and a pretty darn good one too. As we inch closer to the release, and I continue my countdown of the Top 10 Eclipse Mars features, we finally come to Java improvements. Eclipse Luna (2014) shipped with...
Read MoreEclipse Mars ships in 1 week, and that means that we are at the half-way point in my Eclipse Mars Top 10 List. Number 6 on my list is a feature that's been in development for a while now and long overdue. In 2012 Eclipse launched a new application model called e4. The application can be designed through a series of UI models, styled using...
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