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I blogged last week about an example application that I’ve been building. Building good examples is pretty hard: you want an example to be simple enough to understand. At the same time, it has to be real enough to useful and expose real issues. I think that this application strikes...

Voici le petit bout de code, très simple, qui permet de récupérer la version d’un plug-in. [sourcecode language=’java’] Activator.getDefault(). getBundle().getHeaders(). get(org.osgi.framework.Constants.BUNDLE_VERSION) ; [/sourcecode] Pour manipuler de manière un peu plus poussée ce numéro de version, la méthode org.osgi.framework.Version#parseVersion(String) est votre amie. Vous pourrez dès lors, sur l’objet Version que vous...

Just finishing up this years edition on JavaOne. Some thoughts… JavaFX was definitely the main message from Sun. The Sun keynote was full of JavaFX demos showing spinning pictures. It reminded me of 1998 spinning Java logos in applets. Sun appears to want to go head to head with Adobe...

DZone has just released the first set of their Refcardz, including a ‘ Getting Started with Eclipse‘. It looks like a great resource for anyone starting in Eclipse. Nitin from Dzone was kind enough to drop off some of the Refcardz for the Eclipse booth at JavaOne; they proved to...

The Eclipse booth at JavaOne is being hosted this year (as it is normally hosted) by a broad cast of Eclipse committers, representatives from member companies, and other generally-knowledgeable people. Yesterday, some of the folks from nexB hung out at the booth, answering questions about Equinox and being all-around great...

JavaOne is not what you might call my favourite show. This sign about sums it up for me. How welcoming is that? It’s “Java + You”, but “Do Not Enter”. Let the lovefest begin. Did I mention the beanbag chairs? The keynote this morning was uninspiring. With Java FX we...

I’ve been spending a great deal of time working with Eclipse runtime technology recently. Specifically, I’ve been building an example application that deploys using Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), Rich Ajax Platform (RAP), and embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP). The application itself is simple enough: I like examples to be...

I have moved my blogging activities over the the Eclipse blog site. See you over there.

Ça y est, Eclipse 3.4 est à nos portes puisque le milestone qui sort aujourd’hui est le 7ème du nom ; ce qui, dans le cycle de développement Eclipse, veut dire que toutes les nouvelles fonctionnalités ont été implémentées ( feature complete) ! Les prochaines versions livrées seront des releases...