Blog Posts

Carey Schwaber at Forrester Research has just published an article on the ‘ Best Practices In Release Management‘. Eclipse, specifically our release trains, is used as a case study for demonstrating best practices. btw, I am sorry but the reports are only accessible to Forrester clients.

We’ve just published a new article on Eclipse Corner titled “Defining Generics with UML Templates” by James Bruck: Generics in Java have been around for a while but support for mapping generically specified artifacts in UML to their Ecore representation is new to UML2 2.1. This article will walk the...

Every time I look at RAP, I break into giggling fits. This stuff is just plain cool (though it does make it hard to convince my wife that I am indeed working in my home office, but I digress…) I’m planning to speak briefly about RAP during my “Eclipse and...

This week a number of interesting Eclipse based products came to my via Google alerts. Really does remind one that Eclipse is being used in all sorts of industrys. Ambric announced their Eclipse based tools for programming massively parallel processors. btw, if you are looking for a job in Oregan...

Michael Dolan has written an interesting commentary on the differences between corporate led open source projects and Foundation led open source projects. He uses Eclipse, Linux, OpenSolaris and OpenDS as examples. It is well worth the read. In my mind Michael has captured the essence of why it is important...

We now have 1000 plug-ins listed on EPIC. This is a significant milestone and we appreciate everyone that has published their products, open source projects and services on EPIC. I know there are many more Eclipse based products that are not listed on EPIC, so please feel free to add...

It is nice to see that the OSGi Alliance has announced a new free level of membership called Supporter. Supporters get to participate in the requirements meetings and early access to the specifications. Hopefully this will allow other organizations and individuals to show their support of OSGi.

Today, we announced a new program that allows individuals to make financial donations to the Eclipse Foundation. We have hooked up a PayPal account that allows you to use a credit card or PayPal account to make a donation to Eclipse. We have also started a program called ‘Friends of...

Jalimo is an open source Java stack for Mobile Linux; their primary targets are Maemo and OpenMoko. It is interesting to see that they are using SWT for their UI component. Some screenshots can be found here. I wonder if there is any overlap or synergy between eRCP and Jalimo?

It’s a pretty staggering number when you think about it. Feedback from attendees of webinars shows that some 99% find them to be a worthwhile way to spend part of your day. If you haven’t tapped into this valuable resource, you should. To see the full schedule of upcoming webinars...