Blog Posts

Congratulations to the Eclipse PDT team for their top score on the recent InfoWorld review of PHP IDE’s. Out of 8 PHP IDE’s reviewed, PDT tied for top marks. The other top IDE was Zend Studio, of course based on Eclipse. The PDT project team and Zend have done a...

I’ve been wrestling with this one for a while… Just what is the role of a container project? I asked this question more formally in Bug 301065. I invite you to make your comments. The Eclipse Development Process is, after-all, your process. Frankly, I think it’s time to do away...

I don’t think you can go to school in Canada and not read Hugh MacLennan’s the Two Solitudes. So for me it was an obvious metaphor for a phenomenon that has become apparent to me over the past year or so. That is: Europeans and Americans (particularly Californians) view the...

The Eclipse Development Process (EDP) defines “incubation” as a phase that projects go through on their way to maturity. New projects start in incubation to allow the project’s committers time to familiarize themselves with the state of being an Eclipse project, give them time to start developing a following in...

These are heady times in Eclipse project-land. I feel busier than a… well, I’m really, really busy. We have creation reviews pending for the Modeling Team Framework and Object Teams proposals. Object Teams is an already-established, mature project that’s moving to Eclipse. The logistics of the move are interesting enough...

The 1.0 release of e4 is planned for July 2010. Obviously, this is an important milestone for the Eclipse community. The e4 development team is doing a great job building the next generation Eclipse platform. However, as we all know, any new technology also needs evangelism, education and promotion. People...

What do the following people have in common? Ed Burnette, Linda Watson, Alain Magilore, Chris Aniszczyk, Kimberley Peter, Tim Schindl, Ed Merks, Dainel Megert, Remy Chi Suen, Eric Rizzo, Nick Boldt, Paul Webster, and Benjamin Cabe. Or the following products: Gumtree, Lombardi TeamWorks, RadRails, BEA Worksship Studio, Jigsaw Interactive, PSICAT...

One aspect of the marketing discipline I don’t like is when marketeers spend considerable amount of time and money investing in logo designs, names, colors and tag lines. I used to work for a company where the VP Marketing claimed the new logo and look was going dramatically propel the...

This has been a really good week for the EclipseRT runtime strategy. There were three announcements that indicate we are making good progress for establishing Eclipse as a community for creating innovative runtime technology based on OSGi. 1. Project Virgo was announced and proposed this week by SpringSource. As Mike...

The future of Java technology in the enterprise rests with its rapidly evolving ability to regain its original promise of lightweight, flexible and dynamic application development and deployment. In other words, the faster Java gets to the stackless stack, the brighter its future will be. As James Governor said in...