JavaOne is finished and I am leaving with a positive feeling about the conference and the Java community. During the closing keynote, one of the community panelist made the point that Oracle presented Vision and Execution at JavaOne. I would also add they presented Community. Oracle did a nice job...
We are celebrating the 10th birthday of Eclipse in November. One of the great things about Eclipse is the community. Over the last ten years a great community of individuals, organizations, projects and products has been created around the Eclipse technology. To celebrate the 10th birthday, we have developed the...
Last week, I had the pleasure of chatting with some senior technical people from Infor, the third largest ERP vendor. The topic of the conversation was Infor’s use of Eclipse Virgo as the base technology for their next generation middleware platform, called ION. ION is event-driven middleware that makes it...
Next week is JavaOne and in a strange way I am looking forward to attending. I actually think Oracle is finally getting its groove around Java. There seems to be an energy that I am hoping will materialize next week. The keynotes are often an important barometer for setting the...
I am pleased to announce we are having our fourth Eclipse Day at the Googleplex on November 30th. Each year this event highlights some Eclipse projects and products being created by Google that are based on Eclipse. This year we have sessions on the Android Development Tools, Google Plugin for...
Next year at EclipseCon 2012 we are introducing a new co-located conference called Agile ALM Connect. As the name hopefully conveys, this conference will focus on the tools and methods that make software developers and teams more successful across the entire lifecycle. I believe this is the perfect time and...
For reasons that are difficult to articulate, I can’t get a particular Mitsou song out of my head (a little glimpse into the horrors of the early-90s late-80s Canadian music scene). But anyway… The Eclipse Foundation has decided to shut down the Eclipse Usage Data Collector. This decision was made...
You may have noticed that Git is a pretty big deal at Eclipse. We’ve come a long way since the topic was first broached at EclipseCon 2006. As of today, we have 61 projects at Eclipse with Git repositories. Of our 270 projects, 197 have source code repositories, which means...
Eclipse is turning 10 this November and we want to have a BIG party. EclipseCon Europe will kick-off for the celebration but we want to have birthday parties around the world. In fact, I would like to see at least 50 parties in different countries around the world. 10 years...
The Contribution Questionnaire (CQ) is the entry point into the Eclipse intellectual property (IP) due diligence process (the full process is defined in the Due Diligence Process poster). The term CQ has expanded from it’s original meaning. Originally, CQs were literally a questionnaire filled out by a project committer to...