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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...

The Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) seems to be used everywhere and by everyone. IMHO, most people don’t appreciate how pervasive EMF usage is for managing data models. Therefore, in partnership with DZone we are running an ‘EMF Sightings’ competition. If you are using EMF, tell us how you are using...

Jeff McAffer dropped by the Eclipse Foundation‘s Ottawa office on Monday to chat with me about the Runtime Track at EclipseCon 2009. You can listen to the recorded podcast on Eclipse Live. In the podcast, we chat about the agonizing selection process through which the programme committee managed to whittle...

The nomination deadline for the Eclipse Community Awards is January 30. These awards are to recognize the work of all the great people in the Eclipse community. One unfortunate aspect is that only a few individuals are recognized as winners. This is really too bad since a lot of people...

The EclipseCon 2009 submissions system is now open for “ birds of a feather” (BoF) sessions. As in past years, this year we will be giving priority first to Eclipse projects. EclipseCon is a great place to get the team together and do one of those all-important face-to-face meetings in...

A new year brings new projects and new plans for marketing at Eclipse. I thought it would be useful to let the community know some of our plans for 2009. Of course this isn’t all we will be doing but it will represent a significant portion of our time and...

I briefly mentioned some presentation software I’ve been working on on-and-off for a while a few postings back. Eclipse Slideshow has gotten to the point where others are expressing interest, so I thought it was time to make it available. I’ve been holding back only because there are already two...