Blog Posts

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...

I’ve started an effort to rework the Development Resources wiki page. Most of this effort is concerned with providing some additional prose around the existing content to make it easier for contributors and committers to make sense of the Eclipse Development Process and navigate the many resources available. I’ve decided...

After about 3 years of activity in the Eclipse community, and about 2 years of –not always…– regular blogging in French, I’m finally ready to join Planet Eclipse and start sharing with the community! I’m interested in many topics, thus expect posts about PDE, OSGi, Modeling (EMF, xText, …), Continuous...

Riena is number 8 in my series of project that are new to the release train. Christian Campo is the Riena project leader. What does your project do? Riena is a platform for developing multi-tier rich client applications based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) and Equinox. Core to...

Project #7 is my ongoing series of new projects on the release train is Swordfish. Oliver Wolf is the project leader of Swordfish and he was kind enough to participate in the series. What does your project do? The goal of the Swordfish project is to provide an extensible SOA...

It has been a busy morning today on twitter. Lots of people tweeting about Galileo and less important things like Meagan Fox and Transformers (people it is just a hollywood movie, Galileo is real ) To follow-up on the Give a Tweet about Galileo contest, I am pleased to announce...

Denis pushes the Big Red Button It was smooth as silk this morning as our esteemed Webmaster Denis Roy pushed the “big red button” to unleash Galileo. He had his moment of trepidation, but so far everything has gone very smoothly. Thirty-three projects, 380 committers, 24MLOC+…this is a major software...

Project #6 in my series of 10 new projects joining the Galileo release train is the Eclipse Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF). Kentarou Fukuda is a committer on ACTF. What does your project do? The Eclipse Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF) project is working to provide an extensible and comprehensive framework for...