Blog Posts

Probably the hardest thing about using Maven and Tycho to build my Eclipse project was getting my brain around how easy it is. I’m completely new to Maven. I’ve known about it for years. I’ve read some of the high-level documentation, but until last week had never actually used it...

JavaOne is very different this year, especially the exhibit hall. It is much much smaller, in a not so nice hotel ballroom but there are some interesting new products being shown. Some companies and products that caught my eye: Particle Code is showing a mobile development environment that lets you...

If you are a Java developer, Christmas came early this year. Today Google announced that they are making many of the key assets that they acquired from Instantiations. Specifically, GWT Designer, CodePro AnalytiX, WindowBuilder Pro and WindowTester Pro are now all available for free from Google. Many thanks to Google...

Next week I will be attending JavaOne, the first organized by Oracle, and I am really looking forward to it. The last couple of JavaOne conferences were pretty lame in terms of key Java announcements. This year will be Oracle’s chance to set the vision for the future of Java...

We are announcing today the creation of the Application Lifecycle Tools Top-Level Project, which will retain the well-known Mylyn nickname. From the charter: “ Mylyn is an open source collaborative software development project dedicated to providing an extensible, standards-based platform to address a broad range of needs of accessing task...

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu, has penned an interesting post about their involvement and contribution to the open source/free software community. He is responding to some criticism that Canonical is not giving enough back. Mark makes an excellent point that there are many ways to give back and...

Genuitec is a long time member of the Eclipse community, known for their MyEclipse product and more recently their Pulse product. Therefore I was thrilled to hear they have just hit a significant milestone for their Pulse product: 1 million developers. That is great news for Genuitec, congratulations!. It is...

As I mentioned yesterday, we want to encourage people to tell their Eclipse story. Last week Cell Biosciences told their story at the Eclipse Day at the Googleplex. You can view their entire presentation but I have added a summary on the Eclipse Story wiki and below. btw, Cell Biosciences...

Lots of people are doing incredible things with Eclipse. People are building amazing applications that embedded Eclipse technology. Companies have standardized on Eclipse as their development tools platform. Students and researchers are using Eclipse for creating some very cool new technology. As with any open source community, sharing information is...

Last Thursday, Google was the host of the third Eclipse Day at the Googleplex. I look forward to this event each year and this year was another success. Over 150 people attended the day long event that included 12 sessions related to Eclipse and Google technology. The presentations are now...