Blog Posts

Eclipse is proving to be a great community and platform for organizations to collaborate on implementing standards. There are lots of example but today there happened to be two announcements that highlight this theme. CA and IBM have announced they will be demonstrating support and interoperability for the CMDB Federation...

Bjorn and guests have been blogging about the results of the recent committer satisfaction survey at Eclipse. I think that the survey itself embodied genius in its simplicity: one question on “…how happy are you with the Foundation’s support of you and your project?” As the Executive Director, I am...

I learned a little something about accessibility today while playing with the Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF) project’s Java Validation Componentry (Javaco). Actually, I learned a couple of things before I learned the interesting part. First, Javaco currently works on Windows. Try as I might, Linux just isn’t supported. Lesson learned...

Congratulations to Genuitec on their decision to become a strategic developer member with the Eclipse Foundation. Genuitec was an early, active and valuable participant in the Eclipse community and their product MyEclipse is very popular with Eclipse users. Therefore, it is great to see them become even more involved.

Dwight Deugo and I have been relatively quietly pounding away on a new “ Eclipse IDE for Education” component in the SOC project (though I did blog about this a few posts back). The idea is to try and reduce some of the complexity faced by first time users of...

Google has just announced that they are adding the Eclipse Public License (EPL) as a license option for Google Code. A special thank you to Chris DiBona and the entire Google Code team making this addition. Google is a good friend of Eclipse and we appreciate their ongoing support of...

As many people know OSGi is the standard that is implemented in Equinox and is at the heart of Eclipse. Therefore, I was pleased to see Eric Newcomer’s announcement that a new draft of the OSGi 4.2 specs are available for anyone to download. Lets hope the OSGi Alliance continues...

It’s official. I am the new PMC Lead for the Technology Project. It’s all about the power. All must kneel before Zod. Actually… it’s all about responsibility. That, and the power to crush your enemies. Can you tell that I’m of two minds? As a few of you are already...

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...