Blog Posts

The e4 team has published the first release of the e4 project. This is an early alpha release that allows the Eclipse community to start experimenting and exploring the e4 technology. To help you better understand what is possible with e4, we are running a series of e4 webinars on...

There is a generally not-known feature in the Eclipse Help which allows to configure the scope of searches. By default, whenever you perform a query, the search scope is restricted to your local help repository (i.e. Javadocs, API references, user guides contributed by plug-ins). However, it is possible to add...

I’ve been working for quite a while on finding solutions to the problems we are having in PDE as soon as we need to add support for new OSGi headers, to create new editors for cheatsheet files, p2 categories, etc. Declarative Services tooling is a good illustration of all these...

The EMO has just approved the release of e4 0.9. There s a lot of excitement around this project and I encourage everybody to get involved. First, please read McQ’s excellent overview, then read the whitepaper. Visit the e4 site. Most important, go and get it (though you may have...

One of the things that you can do to make your code—and by extension your project—accessible to your adopter community is to make the code as easy to find and navigate as possible. I have some thoughts about making code easy to find that I’ll share another day. Today, I’m...

Sometime yesterday we surpassed the 1 million download request mark for Galileo packages. It took us just 27 days to hit that mark and this number doesn’t even include the bitTorrents or the member distros. The Galileo launch activities have also been very popular and successful: – 29 DemoCamps were...

Last week I started working on the New Committer Handbook as a resource to help—curiously enough—new committers get up to speed with all those things that they need to know. It’s still very much a work in progress, but it’s coming along nicely. My ultimate goal is to provide a...

Git has been growing in popularity, and I am particularly interested in its potential to reduce barriers to participating and contributing to Eclipse projects. There has been a vigorous conversation about using Git for Eclipse projects going on for some time over in bug 257706, including my own reservations about...

OSGI R4.2 (thus Equinox 3.5) comes (well, will come, since the spec. is not final yet) with a new simple and handy utility: the org.osgi.framework.FrameworkUtil.getBundle(Class) static method, which allows to retrieve the bundle a given class belongs to. More specifically, this method will give you the bundle who loaded the...

So I have this new conspiracy theory. I’m not sure if I actually believe it, but I think it’s plausible. In my absence last week, I managed to accumulate more than 2,000 junk emails in my eclipse.org inbox. Many of these emails were the standard spam-fare. I recall reading that...