Blog Posts

One of the more frustrating things about Eclipse–at least for some users–is that Eclipse doesn’t come with a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Since Eclipse is itself a Java application, it needs a JRE to run. The intellectual property rules at Eclipse prevent us from including a JRE with the downloads...

I’ve recently been playing around with Snappy Ubuntu Core, and I thought it would be a nice exercise to try and package Mosquitto as a so-called “Snap”. This blog post will give you a quick introduction to Snappy, and what it means to have a technology like Mosquitto available as...

My apologies for being late with this announcement. We have four winners in this third and final round of the Great Fixes for Mars Skills Competition. In no particular order, I present the winners… Tony McCrary contributed dozens (maybe hundreds) of new icons to multiple projects. The impact of these...

We have a slick look and feel for the new installer. The Eclipse Installer Take a test drive.

My son has just finished up his first year of software development at college. In a demonstration of what I consider cruel and unusual punishment, his first programming language is C++ and his first development environment is Visual C++. I have to assume that the version of Visual C++ that...

The Git Repositories view (which I tend to add to whatever perspective I’m working in) provides pretty much one-stop-shopping for most of my repository activity needs. The Git Repositories View in Eclipse Mars In this screenshot, you can see a handful of local branches that I obviously need to spend...

We are happy to co-organize an IoT breakfast together with Eclipse Foundation member SQS, on May 21 in Madrid (Ayre Gran Hotel Colón). I’ve already been asked “An IoT breakfast? What’s that!?” – well, think of it as your regular meetup, only we’re doing it in the morning rather than...

At EclipseCon 2015, I spoke with Alex Blewitt from InfoQ, and gave an update on the cool stuff happening at Eclipse IoT. It is hard to believe that it is only two years since my last interview with Alex – so many new projects and companies involved today! Check out...

Last week I gave a presentation at Devoxx and shared the floor with my esteemed colleague Wayne Beaton. While he covered some of the very cool feature being baked into the Eclipse IDE for the upcoming Mars release, I did talk about the Eclipse IoT technology portfolio, in particular what...

You can edit Markdown, along with other types of wiki markup, directly in Eclipse. Here’s a screenshot of the Markdown editor in action: Edit Markdown directly in Eclipse Note the “Preview” tab which will show you what the page looks when rendered. This support is provided by the Mylyn Docs...