Blog Posts

There are three reviews wrapping up on February 29/2012. First up, is the Orion project with their 0.4 Release Review. Orion’s objective is to create a browser-based open tool integration platform which is entirely focused on developing for the web, in the web. Tools are written in JavaScript and run...

I loaded the PHP Development Tools into my fresh installation of Eclipse for RCP and RAP Developers Juno M5 this morning. As I was waiting for the contents of the Juno software repository to load, what I saw in the status bar made me giggle: Maybe it’s just me. But...

Juno, the next Eclipse release train, will be the first time the default Eclipse platform will be based on Eclipse 4. This means all the packages on the eclipse.org/download page will be based on Eclipse 4, so lots and lots of people are going to be using Eclipse 4. The...

Our vision for Agile ALM Connect is to bring together the leaders of different tools that are being used across the application lifecycle. Therefore, I was very happy that Olivier Gaudin, co-founder of the Sonar open source project, agreed to speak at Agile ALM Connect about how continuous inspection of...

After the success of Eclipse Party 2011 last year, the Eclipse Foundation, Airbus, Obeo and Sierra Wireless invite you to Eclipse Day Toulouse, on May 24, 2012. This year, we will have a full day event, with a particular focus on two topics for which Eclipse is an ecosystem of...

It has been a while since a survey has been published about Java IDE usage, so I was pleased to see the results of the latest survey from SD Times. Eclipse is still the dominant Java IDE at 65%. Nice to see! Eclipse JDT: 65.3% Oracle NetBeans: 25.8% Oracle JDeveloper...

We are looking for someone to help maintain Eclipse Marketplace Client for the next year. Details are available on the Eclipse Foundation forum.

At any technology conference attendees expect to learn from the industry experts, EclipseCon and Agile ALM Connect certainly deliver the experts. However, learning from the experiences of others is equally important. That is why this year the EclipseCon and Agile ALM Connect program has a big focus on learning from...

The IDE for the Lua programming language that is being developed within the Koneki project is getting more and more adoption these days. There are two main segments where Lua is intensively used: embedded platforms (the Lua VM has a very small footprint and is written in pure ANSI C...

Each year companies and open source communities release some amazing new products/projects based on Eclipse. It really is amazing the innovation and creativity that happens in the Eclipse ecosystem. Last year we recognized many of these new product at the New Product Showcase at EclipseCon 2011. The winner of the...