As many people have already said, Galileo is available for Friends of Eclipse. As Chris pointed-out, one of the reasons Eclipse is able to ship quality software, consistently on-time, is because of the modularity offered by OSGi. Using OSGi, developers are able to work independently on their piece and the final product assembled separately. In addition to the componentization, OSGi enables lazy loading. Each bundle can...
Read MoreSoftware development can be characterized by the management of two separate, yet equally important groups of artifacts. The source code you write and the libraries you depend on. Much of our education, tooling, and software engineering literature focuses on the first part – this post focuses on the second. The Eclipse Galileo release is almost here, and for the past week I have been counting down...
Read MoreAs I mentioned yesterday, tools such as the Memory Analyzer demonstrates just how dominant Eclipse is in the IDE space. And while Eclipse has many useful tools, nothing has changed the face of the IDE as much as the Mylyn project. Mylyn is more than just a cool plug-in for Eclipse, it completely changes the way developers work, bringing your productivity to a whole new...
Read MoreWith all the great work going on in the Eclipse Run-time space, like the EMF Runtime, RAP, Birt Charting Engine, ECF, Jetty and of course Equinox, I sometimes forget that Eclipse started as an excellent platform for tools. The Eclipse Memory Analyzer project reminded me just how good Eclipse tools are. All week I have been counting down the top 10 Galileo features that I'm...
Read MoreAs readers of my blog are no doubt aware, I have been counting down the Top 10 Galileo features that I'm most excited about. Galileo is the name of this years “Eclipse Release Train”, the simultaneous release of 33 Eclipse projects. Galileo will available for download on June 24th, but “Friends of Eclipse” get it sooner. Friends of Eclipse is a donation...
Read MoreThe next feature on the Top 10 Galileo Features (according to me) comes from the Eclipse Modeling Project. The Eclipse Modeling Project is arguably one of the most diverse, yet well focused, top level projects at Eclipse. Number 7 on my list is the EMF UltraThin Diet. In January, the EMF team changed the way a number of fields and lists were generated. Since...
Read MoreJust 1 week until the Galileo release, and I'm using this opportunity to count down the top 10 features in Galileo that I'm really excited about. Previously I talked about the improved tooling support in the compare editor, and the enhancements to the Java 2 JavaScript bridge. Number 8 on my top 10 list is the new RAP Look and Feel. For those...
Read MoreWith Eclipse 3.5 -- Galileo -- just around the corner, I am counting down the top 10 features I'm most excited about. Number 9 on my list is the improved Java 2 Javascript bridge available in the SWT Browser widget. The SWT Browser now supports both calling Javascript from Java and calling Java from Javascript. Leveraging the growing number of "Web Widgets" (Google maps for...
Read MoreThe Eclipse 2009 Release -- codename Galileo – will be available in about 10 days. To help countdown the final push, I have decided to review my Top 10 Galileo features. I need to stress that these are my top 10 features. On a daily basis I make heavy use of the Eclipse SDK, Mylyn, Modeling and RAP, so my top 10 comes...
Read MoreLast week I presented the publishe, the tool used to put your deployable entities (e.g., bundles) into a p2 repository. The publisher can be used in 4 different ways As a set of headless Eclipse applications; As a set of Ant tasks; Through its extensible API; and Within PDE Build Last week I gave some examples of the first two uses. Today I am going to demonstrate how the publisher...
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