With just over one week until Eclipse Mars ships, I've been counting down the Eclipse Features I'm most excited about. Recently I've been working on JNI bindings for V8 to bring the V8 API to Java. Throughout this project I used the CDT for the C/C++ work and the JDT for the Java work. Because of this, I'm very happy to see improvements to the CDT...
Read MoreWe all hate waiting! The good news is that Eclipse Mars is only 1 1/2 weeks away and to help you while you wait for this great release, I'm reviewing the Top 10 Eclipse Mars features that I'm most excited about. But I digress. We all hate waiting; and what happens when your IDE makes you wait? From Mac's spinning beach ball of death to Window's unresponsive UI,...
Read MoreAs we push towards Eclipse Mars I've started my annual tradition of counting down the Top 10 Eclipse Features that I'm most excited about. Number 9 on my list is Platform Improvements. The Eclipse platform is the core of all Eclipse based applications and plugins. Improvements to the platform benefit us all. While it's often been argued that the Eclipse platform suffers from the tragedy of the...
Read More10 Years ago, while studying at the University of Victoria, I developed Zest: the Visualization Toolkit for Eclipse. The goal of the project was to define APIs and Eclipse based implementations for a visualization library. 10 Years ago I attended my first EclipseCon. Back then I didn't know Doug Schaefer, nor did I know about the EclipseCon late night...
Read MoreJ2V8 is a set of Java bindings for Google’s popular JavaScript engine, V8. It was developed to bring highly efficient JavaScript to Android and is the workhorse behind Tabris.js. J2V8 also runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS. In the previous tutorial we looked at how to execute JavaScript using J2V8. In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to register Java callbacks with J2V8. Java callbacks allow...
Read MoreJ2V8 is a set of Java bindings for the popular V8 JavaScript engine. In this tutorial we will explore how to use J2V8 as a JavaScript engine on Heroku. Heroku Heroku is a cloud based Platform as a Service (PaaS) supporting several programming languages. Heroku originally started as a platform for hosting Ruby, but today it supports many languages including Java. With Java, you simply push your sources to Heroku, along...
Read MoreWhile long overdue, I've finally written the Getting Started Guide for J2V8....
Read MoreOn April 30th 2015, Tabris.js 1.0 was released. Tabris.js is a mobile framework which enables developers to write cross-platform, native, mobile applications entirely in JavaScript. Unlike other frameworks, with Tabris.js there is no webview and no cross-compiling. JavaScript runs directly on the device and renders the UI using the platform's native widgets. The uptake has been amazing and Tabris.js apps have started to appear in the App Stores. To...
Read MoreJ2V8 is a set of Java bindings for Google's popular JavaScript engine, V8. As we push towards J2V8 3.0, the focus has been on multithread support. We've already discussed how to use multiple threads with V8. In this tutorial we will show you some new API coming in 3.0, and how this can be used to implement web workers. V8Executor Each thread can have its own V8...
Read MoreTabris.js makes it easy to build native, cross-platform, mobile applications. Since its release on April 30th, I've been highlighting many of the features of Tabris.js 1.0. Many of these features -- such as native look & feel, the JavaScript API and Cordova plugin support -- enable developers to rapidly build high-quality, beautiful, mobile applications using the tools and technologies they are already accustomed too. When it comes to deploying...
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