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A avoir à tout prix dans sa configuration Eclipse, ce snippet permet de créer instantanément une implémentation du pattern Singleton pour une classe Java. Pour l’ajouter, allez dans Window->Preferences->Java->Editor->Templates ; puis créez un nouveau snippet que vous appelerez… au hasard … “singleton” ! Vous pouvez éventuellement vous créer des variantes...

Neil Bartlett, expert et évangéliste de la technologie OSGi (voir notamment ses excellents articles “ Getting started with OSGi” sur EclipseZone), vient d’entamer l’écriture d’un livre intitulé “ OSGi in practice“. Ce dernier sera disponible sous licence Creative Commons, et le premier chapitre est d’ores et déjà téléchargeable ici. Si...

Au mois de juin, deux sessions de formation à Eclipse RCP sont organisées par la fondation Eclipse et dispensées par Anyware Technologies. Celles-ci se dérouleront sur 4 jours à la fin desquels le développement de plug-ins, la personnalisation du workbench et la création d’une application RCP n’auront –presque– plus de...

Stephen Schaub has updated his article titled, “ Creating Database Web Applications with Eclipse“. The article’s abstract reads: The Eclipse Web Tools and Data Tools Projects deliver a feature-rich environment for developing Java EE database-driven web applications. This tutorial walks you through the process of creating a simple database web...

The EPP project has made available the Ganymede M6 packages. These are being made available via the new packaging download page. It would be great to get feedback on the packages and the new packages download page. Speak now; Ganymede is just 10 weeks away.

Openlogic has launched a new initiative called ‘ The Open Source Census‘. Usage data for open source projects is difficult to obtain, so it is great to see OpenLogic take on this initiative. I will be interested in seeing how it progresses. There are two ways the Eclipse community can...

JavaOne is just around the corner; in less than 3 weeks. Once again we are organizing an Eclipse party on the Wednesday night of JavaOne. This year it will be at the Thirsty Bear, so if you will be at JavaOne and want to attend please RSVP.

The new Eclipse Examples Project has been created, provisioned, and set to an incubation-conforming state. In short, we’re good to go. I have some code that’s ready to move into the project (pending PMC approval and IP review). But before that, we need to finalize a proper plan for the...

Harvard Business Review has published a case study titled ‘ Open Source: Salvation or Suicide‘? The focus of the case is a fictitious company that is dealing with the pros and cons of open sourcing their gaming platform. It is great to see Harvard paying attention to open source, however...

The Sun GlassFish team have announced that the upcoming GlassFish v3 release will run on OSGi. This is great news for the OSGi community and for the GlassFish team. If I am not mistaken, now all the major Java application servers are/will be running on an OSGi runtime. It will...