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...
The Eclipse Management Organization (EMO) does a lot of reviews. We do a review when a new project is created. We do a review when a project wants to do a release. We do a move, continuation, termination reviews and more. For each of these reviews some form of documentation...
EclipseLink is project #5 in my series of projects new to the Galileo release train. For those that might not know, EclipseLink is based on the very popular TopLink product from Oracle. Doug Clarke is the EclipseLink project lead. What does your project do? EclipseLink provides high performance runtime persistence...
Hey students! Looking for something fun to do this summer? Do you want to be part of the coolest open source project ever? If you haven’t been accepted already, you’re a little late for Google Summer of Code. However, there are still lots of great opportunities to do open source...
As we enter into the final daze of Galileo, I thought it would be appropriate to thank the people who have answered the call to be Friends of Eclipse. Close to 80 people have join the Friends of Eclipse program since we made the call on May 21. Thank you...
Java Workflow Tooling (JWT), is next up in my series on projects new to the Galileo release train. Marc Dutoo is the project co-leader. What does your project do? Java Workflow Tooling brings open business process design and development to the Eclipse platform. Business Process Management (BPM) is at the...