Wayne Beaton's blog

I recently recorded a flash demo of the creation—using annotations—of a web service for JBoss 4.2 using a pre-release of the new Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers (the work-in-progress landing page is here). You can find the demo here. Creating the web service is pretty easy. I noticed that...

Today we published an article on Eclipse Corner titled, “SWT/Swing Integration”. This is a pretty important topic that is of great interest to a lot of folks. The article was written by Gordon Hirsch, based on some real world experience with the SWT_AWT bridge component (which allows you to host...

I’ve been spending far too much time wrestling with Camtasia lately (it has a frustrating habit of completely screwing up my files). I’ve been putting together a collection of screencam demonstrations to accompany the Europa release. I did spend a little effort looking into using Wink to record my demonstrations...

I spent the last (you might say ‘better’) part of my day yesterday hanging out with some of my old friends at Oracle, trying to help them get their new Eclipse project up and running. The Eclipse Persistence Services project, which is affectionately known as “EclipseLink” is inheriting some awesome...

Yesterday, Ian posted an entry in his blog asking for community help to test a new downloads page that we’d like to realize for the Europa release. On this page are several new distributions of Eclipse. I’ve been testing various version of these packages for a while, and—for a first...

It seems that I’ve been reading a lot of “ Ubuntu Experience” blog entries lately. I decided that, with the arrival of my new laptop, I’d do the same. I recently acquired a brand spanking new Dell Latitude D820 laptop. It’s quite nice and is seriously loaded. The installation of...

A few weeks ago, at Eclipse Forum Europe ( EFE), I presented a talk titled “Test First Development Using Eclipse”. I’m doing the talk again, only this time in a webinar format. The webinar runs tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11h00 EDT (15h00 GMT). Register now! I’m not planning on changing any...

Qi Liang has authored an excellent article titled “ Using the BIRT Chart Engine in Your Plug-in” that discusses how you can incorporate BIRT charts into your own applications. This article introduces the basic concepts of BIRT Chart Engine, explains what BIRT Chart Engine is composed of, and illustrates how...

Fairly frequently, I get questions from people asking me just what the heck Eclipse is. It’s difficult to understand what Eclipse is by looking at our website (though that’s something that’s changing—slowly). The problem is that Eclipse is actually pretty hard to define. Most people know Eclipse as a Java...

I arrived earlier today at JavaOne and I have to admit that I’m more confused than ever. Just what the heck is Duke anyway? He/it looks a lot like a tooth with a disturbing amount of decay below the gumline. I got a picture of me chatting briefly with Duke...