Last week we officially proposed a new Eclipse project to create an client for the Eclipse Marketplace. As I described late last year, the next step for Marketplace is to integrate Marketplace directly into each Eclipse installation. We want to make it as easy as possible for Eclipse users to...
This year’s EclipseCon has a little bit of that “right time, right place” magic going for it. As a significant conference soon after the oft-delayed closing of the acquisition, it provides a good opportunity for Oracle to talk directly to developers about where they are going to take Java. There...
It goes without saying Cloud Computing is a very popular topic in the tech industry. Beyond the marketing hype, cloud computing is changing the way applications are built and deploy. As most people know, OSGi is the component standard used by Eclipse and has many implications for deploying Eclipse-based applications...
One of the first things Oracle announced after they completed the Sun acquisition was that JavaOne would continue but in September (in parallel to Oracle’s existing user conference). Lots of people in the Eclipse community like to speak at JavaOne, so I thought people would like to know the JavaOne...
We are looking at modernizing the Eclipse logo. I kicked off the process a couple of weeks ago and we received some interesting suggestions. However, I felt we needed to get more variety and more graphic designers involved, so I started a project on CrowdSpring and offered a $500 bounty...
We are in the midst of judging the product categories for the Eclipse Community Awards. It turns out we received only two nominations for the EclipseRT Application category. The judges have decided they would like to see more nominees, so we have re-opened nominations in this category until February 17...
It’s not too surprising that the Eclipse Foundation thinks that the Eclipse Public License is a darn fine open source license. It is arguably the most commercially-friendly of the copyleft licenses, and one which is particularly well suited for fostering a community building a software platform. So in June of...
The candidates for the 2010 Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors are now posted. There are five nominees for Committer Rep and five nominees for Sustaining Member Rep, each group competing for three available seats. We will have the candidates full bios and positions up by February 8th. Voting opens on...
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...