Blog Posts

I’ve been trying to decide how to work with Equinox services in the user interface. I’ve started modifying the Organizer application that will soon be part of the Eclipse Examples Project (once it’s provisioned) to use Equinox services. I’ve got a view that updates its appearance based on available services...

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Equinox and OSGi were definitely the buzz of EclipseCon. Now it is great to see a new German book ‘ The OSGi Service Platform – An introduction with Eclipse Equinox‘ about to be published. There is a lot of interest in Germany about Equinox so this book should do very...

By far and away, my favourite quote from Cory Doctorow‘s talk at EclipseCon was: “Ideas are cheap. Execution is hard.” Those truly are words to live by. Remember that as I walk through some thoughts on Eclipse and our community’s strategy. Tony Baer, who writes OnStrategies has been an avid...

Tonight I was asked what, for me, was the highlight of EclipseCon 2008. The keynotes were good… great even. Finally meeting Eric Rizzo, one of the most prolific contributors on eclipse.newcomer, face-to-face was great. I attended many sessions and enjoyed them all (though I have to admit a certain amount...

EclipseCon is done but there is one last party, the European party. Lots of people asked me about the number of people from Europe, so I thought it would be interesting to post the breakdown of attendees by country. Thank you to everyone that made the long trip to Santa...

Participation with the Usage Data Collector (UDC) continues to increase. Over the past 14 days, 2,757,764 usage data events were been generated by 547 users (an average of 5,042 events per user). It seems that 370 of you used the JDT Package Explorer and 88 used the WST Servers view...

In Using ECF for Lightweight Distributed Team Collaboration Scott Lewis (BEA Systems), started by stating the goals of the Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF) project: to “lower barriers to team and community communication by providing [an] interoperable, integrated, extensible framework”. Scott spoke of team productivity. Specifically, he talked a book by...

This morning, after the throught-provoking keynote by Cory Doctorow, I sat in on the Eclipse Riena Project session, presented by Christian Campo (compeople AG, Frankfurt/Main, Germany) Fundamentally, Riena is about distributing services across tiers. It’s born from a need to have applications that are lighter than rich clients, but more...

I spent sometime in the exhibit hall talking to vendors and seeing a number of companies showing off brand new Eclipse based products. First stop was at the AMD booth to see their CodeSleuth product, a Java profiling tool that they have open source. RIM has also announced their new...