Blog Posts

Tonight, I did what I do every night: try to take over the world. The Eclipse Dashboard project has been stagnant for a while with no project lead or active committers, so–per the Eclipse Development Process (EDP), Section 4.6–I decided that the existing project leadership was dysfunctional and replaced it...

Each year the Eclipse Community Awards recognize some of the best Eclipse-based products. Out of the thousands and thousands of applications and tools built on Eclipse, a panel a judges selects a small number of the ‘best’ products in a variety of different categories. This year we have added two...

Sometime later today some very exciting new code is going to show up in the e4 git repository at Eclipse. “ Orion” is a brand new adventure for Eclipse, and one which we hope will interest and excite a whole new community: web developers. Orion is not a set of...

We at the Eclipse Foundation have been working with the Committer Reps to make a significant portion of the Friends of Eclipse money directly available to committers. Our intent is to help you do great things for the benefit of the Eclipse community. The amount of money that we have...

Before the break I started working on adding support for Git into the Eclipse Dashboard. I’m almost done. In fact, I have managed to generate the data for several projects: those projects that have correctly specified the location of their git repositories on our “dev” server. Or at least those...

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...