Wayne Beaton's blog

In this podcast, Ed Merks, Project Lead of the Eclipse Modeling Framework ( EMF) Project, discusses the work being done on the latest release of EMF to support Java 5, along with other EMF topics.

The Eclipse Corner Article titled “ Contributing Actions to the Eclipse Workbench” has been updated by Ketan Padegaonkar.

Yang Seok-Ho has translated Jeff McAffer and Jean-Michel Lemieux’s “Eclipse Rich Client Platform: Designing, Coding, and Packaging Java Applications” into Korean. This book is considered by many to be a must-read resource for anybody building applications using the Eclipse Rich Client Platform ( RCP). You find the translation here. The...

I’ve been playing with Jigloo this evening. I noticed earlier today that the entry on EPIC for Jigloo claimed support for GroupLayout, so I decided to take a closer look. The current release version, 3.9.5, supports the org.jdesktop.layout.GroupLayout that you can find as part of the Swing Layout project. As...

I’ve just posted an update to the article “ Implementing Model Integrity in EMF with MDT OCL” on Eclipse Corner. The article has been updated for EMF 2.3/Java 5.0 and MDT OCL 1.1.

You may recall a post a while back about a new and exciting blog titled “Eclipse Sucks”, hosted by a German post-graduate student Hobel. If you followed his blog, you’d have noticed that it started out very negative of Eclipse, but appeared to get warmer over time. Now the blog...

A new Eclipse Corner article has been published that discusses the use of Maven 2 to build Eclipse Plug-ins. The abstract reads: In a mature and agile development environment, it is vital that the developers are kept productive and that builds are done continuously and dependably. Eclipse is a great...

I’ve been focusing a lot of my attention on Eclipse Web Tools over the past few days. I’ve been looking mostly at how one builds servlets, JSPs, and EJBs using Eclipse Web Tools. I’ve been using Web Tools 2.0M4 (along with its specified prerequisites). Today, I turned my attention to...

Scheduling is hard. I have developed an incredibly deep respect for Richard Gronback. I guess I already had a lot of respect for him anyway, what with the Modeling Project and the GMF thing and all… Scheduling 33 BoFs is hard work. Scheduling 200 sessions must drive you to the...

Today I managed to schedule all but one of the proposed BoFs for EclipseCon 2007. As of about an hour ago, there were 33 proposals. The one that I didn’t schedule asked for a room on Sunday night; as of now, I don’t have any Sunday night rooms to book...