Author: Chris Aniszczyk

The RAP team just announced the availability of RAP 1.3 M5! If you're interested in single-sourcing Eclipse-based applications, please give it a try. In the 1.3 M5 release, the RAP team added more SWT API to make single sourcing existing applications easier: Composite#layout( Control[], int ) MouseEvent#stateMask Widget#reskin( int ) and SWT.Skin event ImageData ImageLoader ImageLoaderEvent The team also added IApplication support which simply translates into one less extension point you have to use...

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The RAP team is proud to announce the fourth milestone for the Eclipse Helios release. What's new? Well, RAP now supports drag and drop semantics. The user can use the mouse and keyboard the way he is used to in his desktop applications to move, copy or link data. The API is SWT-compatible, using DragSource, DropTarget and Transfer. JFace ControlDecoration support has been added to RAP...

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As an Eclipse committer, I love to see Eclipse technology used in a variety of places. Last week, at the EclipseRT Day in Austin, Austin Riddle and Cole Markham from the Texas Center of Applied Technology gave a presentation on how EclipseRT technology is used in emergency management and threat simulation scenarios. They get bonus points for a Movember reference in their slides. They also had the coolest...

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I'm not sure if people noticed this last week, but there's been discussion of providing a simplified p2 ui by refactoring out the Mylyn discovery user interface and pushing it down the stack. Mik Kersten alluded to this in his blog entry last week, where having a simple discovery and install mechanism can help grow an ecosystem. I think this enhancement would alleviate a common problem...

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This week, we'll be participating at Eclipse Summit Europe 2009 in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Here are our activities based on day. Tuesday, October 27th Runtime Tutorial Jeff McAffer (EclipseSource), Christian Campo (compeople AG), Shaun Smith (Oracle) RT Symposium Jeff McAffer (EclipseSource), Christian Campo (compeople AG) Wednesday, October 28th OSGi Best Practices Martin Lippert, Jeff McAffer (EclipseSource), Paul VanderLei (Band XI International) OSGi Versioning and Testing Chris Aniszczyk (EclipseSource), Jeff McAffer (EclipseSource), Paul VanderLei (Band XI International) Styling RAP...

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Good news everyone, the Eclipse PDE team finally made the visualization component available for everyone. To obtain it, use the Install New Software wizard in Eclipse and point to the correct repository. https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/pde/visualization/updates The plan is to ship this as part of the Eclipse Helios release. In its current state, the tool visualizes OSGi bundles only. There is some discussion about adding support for features and packages....

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