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Last week, I quietly rolled out an addition to Eclipse Corner that shows the Eclipse projects and releases that an article is compatible with. The change also provides, when appropriate, a link to Bugzilla entries concerned with the article (so you can more easily make comments or suggest corrections for...

For some reason, in the last couple of weeks stories about OSGi and Equinox are popping up everywhere. Two articles about OSGi were recently published: Dave Chappell & Khanderao Kand from Oracle just published an article called ‘ Universal Middleware: What’s Happening With OSGi and Why You Should Care‘ in...

Well, maybe not quite “Super” The nominations for the Eclipse Foundation Board of Director elections are now posted. This is a great collection of nominees. I want to personally thank each of them for putting their names forward. Given the candidates, the Eclipse community will be well served by any...

It’s pronounced “eep!”, as in “meep, meep”, the sound that the roadrunner makes. The Eclipse Examples Project (EEP!) proposal is live and is looking for feedback and input. The idea behind the project is to provide a home for examples of applications, plug-ins, etc. built using Eclipse technology. We’ve already...

Le projet Babel fait enfin ses premiers pas, et c’est plutôt prometteur. Depuis la version 3.2 d’Eclipse, on ne disposait plus de packs de langues dignes de ce nom (problème de propriété intellectuelle des traductions fournies par IBM). L’idée de Babel est d’apporter à Eclipse non seulement une solution pour...

Every once in a while, my Google alerts brings up something that makes me say ‘that is kind of cool’. For instance, today this announcement that a fleet of US Navy destroyers will be using a Java rules engine, called Jesse, that is built on top of Eclipse. I realize...

The BoF submissions for EclipseCon 2008 are starting to pile up. You can view them here. Sadly, none of them have descriptions that rival the Mylyn one in comedic value, but there’s still time. In terms of popularity, it seems that the Mega Modeling Mania BoF is the current front...

I think that I may have had something to do with this… A few months back, I made a crack to Denis that it’d only be a matter of time before somebody submitted Klingon translations for Eclipse. Imagine that, Eclipse in Klingon… Anyway, Klingon is a featured language on Babel...

For those getting bored about the ongoing blah blah about Clinton vs Obama or McCain vs Romney or you think US politics just doesn’t matter, I give you something that matters and where you can have a direct impact. The voting for the Eclipse Community Awards is now open. We...

I’ve started to go through some of the BoF submissions for EclipseCon, and came across this gem: Mylyn Bashing, Brainstorming and Beer BOF On Mylyn we typically perform UI reviews on conference calls and bug reports. This one will be a little different. As the Mylyn committers present the key...