Blog Posts

The Eclipse community is fortunate to have a large diverse community of organizations that participate as members of the Eclipse Foundation. The annual membership fees these companies pay allow the Foundation to provide services to the the Eclipse community. We at the Foundation also look for new ways to increase...

I really appreciate when companies publish the results of their developer surveys. In the open source world, these types of surveys provide an important insight into what developers are using. This is why I was interested to see Zero Turnaround’s recent Java EE productivity Report. It is great to see...

The power of Eclipse is the ability for different vendors to create developer tools that integrate on a common tools platform. In the fast growing mobile developer tools market, we are see a wealth of tools being created on top of the Eclipse platform. Companies like RIM, Nokia, Google Android...

A few minutes ago, I posted two exciting new project proposals. WindowBuilder is already known as one of the best Java GUI builders on the market. It supports both SWT and Swing and is fully bi-directional, meaning that you can work on the code or the visual design – it’s...

Today Google announced that they will be contributing two key pieces of Java tooling technology to proposed Eclipse Foundation projects. Two new projects are bringing to Eclipse product-quality code which have been highly regarded by Java developers for many years. They will fill major requirements that the Eclipse developer community...

I’m writing a little utility that scans the download.eclipse.org server to compare the contents against our IPZilla database. Essentially, I’m scanning for third-party libraries distributed from our servers. My script looks for any “*.jar” file (case insensitive) found either directly in the file system or contained within any ZIP or...

I have a bit of sad news, which is that Barb Cochrane of the Intellectual Property Management team is leaving us, effective Friday. Barb has been great to work with for the past three years. She added a lot of fun and enthusiasm to both the office and the community...

Cate Huston has done an analysis of the Eclipse Summit Europe twitter hashtag (#ese). It is interesting to see the visualization of what people were talking about at ESE. I wonder who was the person with the most tweets and who actually used 5 different clients?

Neil Bartlett asked me on Twitter a few days ago why the Eclipse Foundation was supporting the JSR for SE8, given that this JSR is “anti-OSGi”. That is a very good question. I believe that Neil and others are basing their “anti-OSGi” read of the JSR based on Section 2.1’s...

Ever wonder what are the most popular Eclipse plugins? The Eclipse Marketplace is keeping track of the number of times developers install different solutions from the Marketplace Client. The data from last 4+ plus monthsstarts to show what are the most popular Eclipse solutions. Here are the top 10 for...