Blog Posts

    Users can now fund development work on Eclipse

    by Mike Milinkovich

    Today, we are significantly lowering the barriers for companies and individuals to actively invest in the ongoing development of the Eclipse platform. Eclipse has an amazing community of individuals and companies that invest significant amount of resources in the development of Eclipse open source projects. We also have a huge...

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    Technology Behind the new Eclipse Project Handbook

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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    New Eclipse Project Handbook

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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    Learn from IoT experts with the Virtual IoT meetup group

    by Benjamin Cabé

    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...

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    Eclipse Screenshot of the Week: Gerrit

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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    It’s Time to Revise the Eclipse Development Process: 2015 Edition

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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    Eclipse Mars New and Noteworthy: Java 9 Beta

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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