Blog Posts

    Eclipse Mars New and Noteworthy: Automatic Updates by Default

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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    Eclipse Mars New and Noteworthy: New Java Quick Fixes

    by Wayne Beaton

    Eclipse Mars includes new Quick Assists (Ctrl+1) for Java developers. Add and remove the parentheses around lambda parameter: Explicitly add the inferred types of the parameters in a lambda expression: Convert from method reference to lambda expression: Or from lambda expression to method reference: The full set of Eclipse Project...

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    IoT Security: An open source and open standard approach

    by Anonymous

    High on any list of IoT concerns is the security for an IoT solution. How do you make sure devices only talk to the correct servers and only the ‘correct’ devices talk to your servers? Lots of people point out IoT security is an important issue but very few are...

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    Bridging IoTivity and Eclipse SmartHome

    by Benjamin Cabé

    There are several ongoing initiatives that aim at standardizing protocols and interfaces in order to enable a truly interoperable Internet of Things. On the protocol front, I would certainly argue that the technology is already there and over the last decade standards organizations like OASIS, IETF or the Bluetooth SIG...

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    Screenshot of the Week: Error Reporter

    by Wayne Beaton

    The Error Reporter orovides valuable information to project teams that might otherwise not be captured. The Error Reporter itself has morphed over time to provide a very slick user experience that stays out of your way, inconspicuously opening a tray notification in the lower right hand corner of the screen...

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    Screenshot of the Week: Missing JRE

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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    Running Eclipse Mosquitto on Snappy Ubuntu Core

    by Benjamin Cabé

    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...

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    Great Fix Winners, Round Three

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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