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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...

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...