Blog Posts

    Time for a new eclipse.org L&F

    by Anonymous

    As with all good things, the time has come to give the eclipse.org web site a new look and feel. A lot has changed since the existing web site was launched over 5 years ago. Eclipse itself has evolved to bea large community of open source projects. The Eclipse Working...

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    Winners of Eclipse Community Award

    by Anonymous

    Last week at EclipseCon we announced the winners of the Eclipse Community Awards. We have so many amazing community members but it is nice to recognized some who have really made a difference. This year the winners were: 1. Top Newcomer Evangelist: Dani Megert. Dani has been doing an amazing...

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    Add Java 8 support to Eclipse Kepler

    by Wayne Beaton

    Edit: I recommend that you just update to the Luna release. While we’re pretty sure that this still works, it’s not a configuration that we test anymore. Want to add Java 8 support to Kepler? Java 8 has not yet landed in our standard download packages. But you can add...

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    Official Eclipse Support for Java™ 8

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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    Videos from Eclipse IoT Day Grenoble

    by Benjamin Cabé

    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...

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    This Week in Open Source Projects at Eclipse

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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    IoT at EclipseCon 2014

    by Benjamin Cabé

    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...

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    Most popular tutorials at EclipseCon

    by Anonymous

    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...

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    Open Source Project Activity at the Eclipse Foundation

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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    Key takeaways from the IoT Day Grenoble

    by Benjamin Cabé

    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...

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