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Last fall at Eclipse Summit Europe I was pleasantly surprised to talk to a number of companies that were formulating their open source strategy. They has questions about different strategies and were interested in talking to people who have experience working in open source. Near the same time, Matt Aslett...

Well, the nominations are up, and 2009 Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors election is shaping up to be the most interesting yet. There are six nominees for Committer Rep and nine nominees for Sustaining Member Rep, each competing for four available seats. My recollection is that is the largest number...

Last year’s Eclipse release (Ganymede) came with a new provisioning platform called p2. For years, Eclipse has been shipped along with a component called the “Update Manager”, which allowed users to easily update their Eclipse installations. Nevertheless, year after year, and especially when Eclipse 3.0 came out, it has become...

Bug 262232 asks if the CloudFree Server Platform project should change its name. I have to admit, that I’ve never been really comfortable with the name. The purpose of this project, “an open, dynamic and extensible platform for Equinox based server solutions”, does suggest that the project might play some...

If my math skills are up to scratch (and I’m pretty confident they are), we have 72 slots for “birds of a feather” (BoF) sessions at EclipseCon this year. Realistically, we’ll probably lose a few of those slots as we get closer to the big event. As I’ve mentioned in...

C’est aujourd’hui le dernier jour pour nommer des candidats pour les Eclipse Community Awards ! Si le travail de certains contributeurs ou committers vous a particulièrement impressionnés, si des membres de la communauté font selon vous un travail d’évangélisation et de promotion d’Eclipse qui mérite d’être cité, alors n’hésitez pas...

One thing I have learnt while being at Eclipse is that creating a successful open source project and community is darn hard work. I have a lot of respect for anyone who is able to mix great technology and a passion for community, that are absolutes for successful projects. We...

Today marks the fifth birthday of the Eclipse Foundation. My how time flies when you’re having fun! It is customary to mark these types of occasions with a bit of an retrospective. My challenge is to try to condense the swirl of activity that is Eclipse into some common themes...

Le wiki Eclipse détaille très clairement la procédure pour obtenir un dump de la JVM au moment précis où celle-ci semble soit complétement bloquée, soit tombée dans un mode dans lequel un thread s’est emballé et occupe 100% du CPU… Pour faire court, si vous avez un JDK 1.6 ou...

The EMO just posted the Jetty Project Proposal. Jetty is a Java-based web server and implementation of the Servlet Specification and is currently hosted at The Codehaus under the Apache 2.0 license. The new project, which will fall under the Eclipse RT top-level project, has the following objectives: Maintain an...