Blog Posts

I’ve been asked about the technology used in the new Eclipse Project Handbook. The content itself is specified in Asciidoc format and rendered into HTML using Asciidoctor. I started off using Asciidoc for rendering, but changed after I ran into a couple of bugs and problematic licensing. The content is...

For a very long time, I’ve wanted to completely rewrite our documentation for projects and committers. I finally gave it a big push last quarter and have completed a first big revision. There’s still more work to do, but I believe that the new document is very close to being...

About 9 months ago, I published a blog post showing up some interesting metrics about the Eclipse IoT open-source community. I have recently crunched the numbers again and here are 3 interesting facts about Eclipse IoT and its developer community: A very diverse community of contributors It is one thing...

About a year ago, we realized that although the IoT is on everyone’s lips, there is a huge lack of technical resources available for people interested in learning more and getting their hands dirty with the solutions available today. Our Virtual IoT meetup group is an attempt, pretty successful so...

One of the great strengths of LightweightM2M (LwM2M) is to be… ahem… lightweight! The fact that it relies on CoAP for the communication, and that all the standard resources are meant to be very concise really helps making very small implementations that can fit in constrained devices. In the video...

It’s easy to get caught thinking that Mylyn only provides access to traditional issue trackers like Bugzilla and Jira. It also features integration with Gerrit. This screenshot shows the Planning perspective being used to work directly with Gerrit reviews. Working with Gerrit in the Planning Perspective You can manipulate the...

Every couple of years, I work with the Eclipse Architecture Council to revise the Eclipse Development Process (EDP). The EDP is the document that describes the structure of projects, relationships between projects and committers, and the sorts of activities that projects are expected to engage in. After many years and...

Java 9 support has not yet landed in our standard download packages. But you can add an early access preview to your existing Eclipse Mars install. The Eclipse Java 9 Support (BETA) contains the following: ability to add JRE and JDK 9 as installed JRE; support for JavaSE-1.9 execution environment...

The Customize Perspective dialog is back! Use this dialog to configure the visible menu, toolbar, action sets and shortcuts in your workbench. This functionality was broken in Eclipse 4.2, together with the the ability to reset the perspective.

With Eclipse Mars, the automatic updates option is turned on by default. With this, Eclipse will periodically check with our servers to see if there are any updates available and give users the option to download and install them. Use the “Automatic Updates” preferences page to further tune the update...