Blog Posts

I’ve been spending a great deal of time working with Eclipse runtime technology recently. Specifically, I’ve been building an example application that deploys using Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), Rich Ajax Platform (RAP), and embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP). The application itself is simple enough: I like examples to be...

I have moved my blogging activities over the the Eclipse blog site. See you over there.

Ça y est, Eclipse 3.4 est à nos portes puisque le milestone qui sort aujourd’hui est le 7ème du nom ; ce qui, dans le cycle de développement Eclipse, veut dire que toutes les nouvelles fonctionnalités ont été implémentées ( feature complete) ! Les prochaines versions livrées seront des releases...

We are organizing another series of Eclipse Demo Camps. Last Fall we had 30 Eclipse Demo Camps and they turned out to be great community events. This time the demo camps are to celebrate the Ganymede release. We already have events organized in 15 cities but I’d like to see...

Two weeks ago the Glassfish team announced their upcoming v3 version would be running on OSGi. Now Ludovic has a demo of Glassfish v3 running inside of Eclipse; I gather running on Equinox. Not sure about other people but this just seems so cool for many different reasons. Hopefully I...

Last year at JavaOne, the highlight for me was the Redmonk Unconference. It was a great venue to network, learn and discuss issues relevant to the open source community. The guys at Redmonk do a great job of bringing together the technologist and the business/marketing types into one place. I...

SpringSource has just launched a new application server, called SpringSource Application Platform, that is based on Equinox, Tomcat and Spring. The key thing is that it is not a Java EE application server but one that has been designed for modular development and deployment. InfoQ has a good write-up about...

I have some JavaOne Pavlion passes to give away. If anyone wants a pass to access the exhibit hall, please send me an e-mail. (ian at eclipse dot org.)

JavaOne is in two weeks. Once again, the Eclipse Foundation will have a booth, be giving away Eclipse t-shirts and having our party at the Thirsty Bear. Besides free Eclipse SWAG and beer, there are also some interesting Eclipse related sessions at JavaOne: The Many Moons of Eclipse, Tuesday, May...

I am starting to work on the launch plans for Ganymede. I have a lot of respect and admiration (especially their graphics) for the way Mozilla promotes Firefox, so it was great to see Paul Kim blogging about their plans for Firefox 3. I agree with Paul, that having a...