Blog Posts

    Great Fixes for Mars Winners Part I

    Sunday, March 15, 2015 - 21:33 by Wayne Beaton
    A Great Fix is a contribution provides a significant improvement in the Java development experience using Eclipse. Special consideration will be given to performance or stability improvements, and patches that improve the user experience. To qualify, a fix needs to be merged into the project repository by a committer. For...

    Nested/Hierarchical view of projects

    Wednesday, March 11, 2015 - 16:31 by Wayne Beaton
    From the Eclipse 4.5M5 New and Noteworthy documentation: The Project Explorer now provides the ability to view the projects in a hierarchical (a.k.a. nested) form. For modular projects, this allows to have your Project Explorer mapping more closely the organization of your modules as they are on the file system...

    Eclipse N!

    Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 23:29 by Wayne Beaton
    The Eclipse Planning Council—with help from the community—is trying to sort out the name for our eleventh named simultaneous release in 2016. We had some trouble with the first set of names that we selected, and so we’re into the second round. The “Eclipse Lynn” Lobby has significant momentum. We...

    A Vision of the Future of the Software Developer’s Platform

    Friday, February 20, 2015 - 11:17 by Wayne Beaton
    How will the developer’s platform change over the next three years? Will you still be using desktop-based development tools? Cloud-based software development options are getting more powerful, but will they completely replace the desktop? For a certain set of developers, cloud-based software development tools will be a natural fit and...