Blog Posts

As a follow-up to my web analytic post, Mark Phippard from Collabnet and Subclipse fame, posted some data they have been collecting from Subclipse. If you don’t know Subclipse, it is the #1 download on the Eclipse Marketplace and a popular Eclipse plugin for Subversion. I am a data junkie...

Dear Oracle, I hate to tell you but you need some help with the Java community. The basic problem is that people don’t trust you and you aren’t very good at community building; in fact you are pretty bad at community marketing. I really really want you to succeed and...

This past week I spent some time looking at the web stats, via Google Analytics, for eclipse.org. There are some interesting trends that I thought people might like to see. The following is a comparison of the traffic to http://www.eclipse.org from Sept 20 2009-Oct 20, 2009 and Sept 20, 2010-Oct...

Yesterday I described the reasons why I think the Eclipse Foundation should vote in favour of the Java 7 JSR when it is proposed. We are no where near as positive about the Java 8 JSR. The reason is modularity. We are just not comfortable that the direction of the...

Stephen Colebourne correctly pointed out in his blog this morning that when the Java 7 JSR is proposed to the JCP Executive Committee, that the Eclipse Foundation will vote “yes”. I think that it would be helpful to explain why that is the case. First, some history. The Eclipse Foundation...

We launched Eclipse Labs this past May. The goal was to create a community for Eclipse open source projects that weren’t ‘official’ Eclipse Foundation projects. There is lots of interesting Eclipse related technology being created in open source but there was not an official home. Eclipse Labs was to be...

Eclipse Summit Europe is only a few short weeks away. ESE and EclipseCon ( EC2011 call for papers is open!) are definitely the two funnest and busiest weeks of the year for me. Thanks to the Program Chair, Bernd Kolb of SAP and his hard-working Program Committee, this year’s ESE...

Today’s announcement that IBM is going to join forces and work with Oracle on OpenJDK is good news for Java, and by extension for Eclipse. All of us who live within the Java ecosystem need to recognize that this fundamentally strengthens the platform, enhances the business value of Java and...

I am very excited to announce an upcoming event in Zurich, called the Eclipse Enterprise Modeling Day. The focus of this event is to share different users stories and compare best practices for enterprise modeling with Eclipse. Companies like UBS, Bosch, Nord/LB and RWE will present how they use Eclipse...

The first JavaOne, organized by Oracle is now finished. This was definitely a JavaOne very different from those of the past. In fact, I think it is symbolic of how Oracle will operate the Java community moving forward. Some observations from the new JavaOne. A Crappy Location JavaOne was held...