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Tonight I was asked what, for me, was the highlight of EclipseCon 2008. The keynotes were good… great even. Finally meeting Eric Rizzo, one of the most prolific contributors on eclipse.newcomer, face-to-face was great. I attended many sessions and enjoyed them all (though I have to admit a certain amount...

EclipseCon is done but there is one last party, the European party. Lots of people asked me about the number of people from Europe, so I thought it would be interesting to post the breakdown of attendees by country. Thank you to everyone that made the long trip to Santa...

Participation with the Usage Data Collector (UDC) continues to increase. Over the past 14 days, 2,757,764 usage data events were been generated by 547 users (an average of 5,042 events per user). It seems that 370 of you used the JDT Package Explorer and 88 used the WST Servers view...

In Using ECF for Lightweight Distributed Team Collaboration Scott Lewis (BEA Systems), started by stating the goals of the Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF) project: to “lower barriers to team and community communication by providing [an] interoperable, integrated, extensible framework”. Scott spoke of team productivity. Specifically, he talked a book by...

This morning, after the throught-provoking keynote by Cory Doctorow, I sat in on the Eclipse Riena Project session, presented by Christian Campo (compeople AG, Frankfurt/Main, Germany) Fundamentally, Riena is about distributing services across tiers. It’s born from a need to have applications that are lighter than rich clients, but more...

I spent sometime in the exhibit hall talking to vendors and seeing a number of companies showing off brand new Eclipse based products. First stop was at the AMD booth to see their CodeSleuth product, a Java profiling tool that they have open source. RIM has also announced their new...

People often ask us why we have EclipseCon in Santa Clara every year. This is the convention center in Santa Clara: (note the fountains on the left, the palm trees, and the generally warm glow). This is my home in Ottawa (where most Eclipse Foundation employees live): (note the after...

Sam Ramji today announced that MS would be investing in the development of SWT on WPF. This is great news for Eclipse and Microsoft for two reasons: 1) Having more resources to work on SWT, especially with the deep knowledge of WPF, will make Eclipse better on Vista. This will...

Sometimes it feels like I’m stalking Frank Gerhardt. Or maybe I just like listening to German speakers. Whatever the case, it seems that almost every single talk I’ve attended has been presented by Frank, or one of his countrypersons… This afternoon, I’m attending “ Server-Side Eclipse – the dynamic server...

In addition to the Equinox announcement, we did a second press release that I think it is very significant and a great example of open source and open standards working together. EclipseLink has been chosen by Sun to be the reference implementation for JPA 2.0. The Glassfish team has also...