Blog Posts

Congratulations to the PyDev team and Aptana on the recent announcement that Aptana has hired the lead developer of PyDev and aquired the PyDev. PyDev is a very popular Python Eclipse IDE, so Aptana has done very well to add this to their suite of products. Lets hope this means...

As we near the end of summer, conference season seems to be starting and there are a number of Eclipse conferences being organized. The producers of the successful JAX conferences in Europe are starting a new Java and Eclipse oriented conference in San Jose, called JAX San Jose on Oct...

The winners of the Ganymede Around the World blogging contest have been announced. Congratulation to Vincenzo Cappello of Corbetta, Italy for his review of CDT. For his efforts he wins a new Eclipse jacket and a pass to EclipseCon or Eclipse Summit Europe. I particularly like his introduction ‘I [have]...

We have what has been referred to as an “ embarrassment of riches” in Eclipse Corner. We have a lot of articles that are either in development, or are ready for publishing. The problem is that we have a bit of a shortage of reviewers and editors. Perhaps one of...

Pour ouvrir une URL (par un clic sur un widget SWT “Link”, par exemple) dans le navigateur Web interne d’Eclipse, il suffit de faire ceci : [sourcecode language=’java’] PlatformUI.getWorkbench(). getBrowserSupport(). createBrowser(“myId”). openURL(url); [/sourcecode] myId étant un identifiant unique qui permet, éventuellement, de réutiliser le même navigateur pour ouvrir d’autres pages...

The SWT Graph Source Forge project provides some pretty sophisticated interactive graphical technology for Eclipse RCP-based applications. The sample images shown on the examples page are pretty cool, but the description of the underlying technology seems even cooler. Layered canvases are a natural and very powerful extension to SWT. It’s...

Ingress CAFÉ (Consolidated Application Foundation for Eclipse) was selected as the Best Application Development Tool at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo this week. Congratulations!

Dmitry Leskov introduced me to Excelsior JET at JavaOne this year. Excelsior JET 6.5 will enable you to compile your Eclipse RCP application to a native code executable and distribute it without the original class/jar files. My first question, when Dmitry showed me JET in action was whether or not...

I’ve got some numbers from from the usage data collector for the month of July. It’s the first full month of real data. Currently, I’ve only got data for commands, views, editors, and perspectives used; the information is restricted to only show those entries that start with “org.eclipse.”. You can...

I generally enjoy reading Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror blog. Yesterday his post, Quantity Always Trumps Quality, made me think of two things. First, the thoughts conveyed are exemplified at Eclipse: we value code over specifications; code is written, mistakes are made, lessons are learned, and everything gets better in the...