Blog Posts

Markus Knauer and Harald Kornmayer presented the g-eclipse project at Eclipse Summit Europe earlier today (“ From Grid to Cloud computing“). Markus gave a great demo of how g-eclipse can be used to manage a collection of computers running in (on?) Amazon’s cloud (there’s some good documentation that shows how...

Excelsior just released Excelsior JET 6.5 beta 3. With Excelsior JET, you can compile your Java- and Eclipse-based applications into a “native” executable with an embedded JRE (no external JRE required). The new version features a GUI for compiling RCP applications. Their website contains a collection of compiled open source...

On Monday at Eclipse Summit Europe we held the first Eclipse European Members’ Meeting. I have posted some of the presentation slides on the meeting agenda. (I will post more when I have time) Three presentations really caught my attention: 1. Karsten Schmidt did a great job telling the SAP...

O’Reilly Media has announced a new J ava programming certification. As reported on Slashdot, it appears to be competition for Sun’s Java Programmer certification. What is very interesting is that students will use ‘ a special learning version of the Eclipse open source IDE (Integrated Development Environment), where students apply...

Eric Rizzo has joined the Technology PMC. Anybody who has been paying attention will no-doubt recognise Eric’s name. He was the winner of the “Top Newcomer Evangelist” award at last year’s EclipseCon. If you spend any time in the Eclipse newsgroups, you’ve likely come across his name. He is very...

As many know, Adobe is a great supporter of Eclipse by the fact that their FlexBuilder product and soon to come Thermo product are built on Eclipse. Having them use Eclipse for these products is a great endorsement of Eclipse as a universal tool platform. Therefore, it is great to...

Parce que j’en ai marre de galérer à chaque fois que je veux retrouver les URLs des entrepôts p2 d’Eclipse 3.4, ou des builds d’intégration de la 3.5, les voici… Update Site Update Site URL Integration builds toward 3.5 http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.5-I-builds Nightly builds toward 3.5 http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.5-N-builds 3.5 milestones http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.5milestones Maintenance builds...

SAP has previously stated that their next generation of NetWeaver was going to be based on OSGi. Fredrik Alstroemer from SAP Java Server developer team has written about their reasoning and in particular SAP’s choise of using Equinox as their OSGi runtime. Some key takeaways: – SAP Netweaver already has...

Over the last 12 months, Eclipse has gained a lot of traction in the mobile industry but a lot of the activity is based on technology slices of mobile development. That is why it is great to see Motorola and Nokia proposing a solution to define a common Mobile Application...

The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme has been a great vehicle for university outreach. For the 2008 running of GSoC, the Eclipse Foundation received student 127 applications from almost as many institutions. Most of the students submitting proposals were currently enrolled in undergraduate programmes, but many where pursuing graduate-level...