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Introduction to Eclipse Riena UI and Navigation

Aug 22, 2009

Starting out with Eclipse Riena? I hope you find my one-picture-summary of the Riena UI and navigation useful: Conceptually the window is divided into the navigation tree on the left - showing a …

Type Inference at Design Time via Eclipse

Aug 17, 2009

Dynamically typed programming languages have become more popular over the recent years. Dynamic typing makes certain tasks a lot easier, however, I will not go into a full discussion of dynamic versus …

Eclipse, OSGi and PAX Runner

Aug 14, 2009

If you’re using Eclipse for OSGi development, there’s a neat utility that you can use to help you run your OSGi application on a variety of frameworks. PAX Runner uses the PDE …

Beyond XML: The Future of Extensible Metaformats

Aug 11, 2009

Yesterday I discussed some of the issues with XML. Today I’ll be taking a look at three of the potential alternatives that may improve on the current situation. YAML YAML Ain’t Markup Language. To …

XML: Still No Silver Bullet

Aug 10, 2009

The XML format has done a lot in the last decade to reduce some of the pains of legacy formats and to encourage application interoperability. Having a standardized syntax and object model makes the …

Eclipse 3.6 M1 is out

Aug 7, 2009

Good news, Eclipse 3.6 M1 is out and available for download (new and noteworthy)! Why is this good news? Well, this marks the beginning of the regular heart beat of the Eclipse release cycle. The next …