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Dani Megert, the project lead for the Java development tools (JDT) project made this announcement earlier today: The Eclipse top-level project is very proud to announce official support for Java 8. Starting with I20140318-0830 all Luna (4.4) builds contain the Eclipse support for Java 8. For Kepler SR2 (4.3.2) a...

I am happy to announce that the recordings of the Eclipse IoT Day Grenoble talks –that I already summarized in a previous blog post– are now online! You can watch them from the dedicated YouTube playlist , or directly below: Thanks again to all the participants for making this day...

It’ll be another busy week next week: I have six reviews scheduled. More on that in a bit… The decentralized nature of Git makes it so that it’s no longer possible to expect that somebody who has found your source code repository will easily find the corresponding project and sort...

With EclipseCon starting in less than 3 weeks, I am starting to be really excited! It is going to be my 7 th EclipseCon in North America, and I wouldn’t miss it for the world! Of course, this year we have lots of great content around IoT (more on that...

EclipseCon is less than 3 weeks away; hard to believe. We have another great schedule of sessions and lots of opportunity to network with Eclipse community members. Leading up to the start of EclipseCon it is always interesting to see what tutorials are popular with attendees. As in previous years...

This is a pretty big week for reviews. According to the Eclipse Development Process (EDP), Eclipse open source projects are required to engage in reviews at key points in their lifecycle. This starts with the creation review, but most reviews are concerned with releases. Every major or minor release is...

On Wednesday the Eclipse Foundation together with Grenoble’s Computer Science Lab ( LIG) organized an IoT day. It was a pretty cool event, with 100+ participants and really good presentations. In particular, I liked the mix in the attendance: people with a research background, people coming from the M2M and...

Bug 427897, titled Remove need for “Package Explorer” in favor of “Project Explorer”, presents a great opportunity to contribute to the Eclipse Platform. The primary concern of the bug is improvement in the functionality provided by the Project Explorer view so that it may one day replace the Package Explorer...

I’ve been playing with the language a bit while tinkering with the Java 8 support under development by the Eclipse Java development tools (JDT) project. I’ll admit that I’m a little underwhelmed by lambdas in Java 8. This, of course, comes from an Old Dude Who Knows Smalltalk (and LISP/Scheme)...

April 9 is Global IoT Day, so we have decided to organize a virtual conference, called IoTLive. In partnership with Postscapes (a great resource of IoT information) we plan to host a number of panel sessions on a variety of topics, including: The Business of IoT Industry Solutions (ex connected...