Blog Posts

    EclipseCon BoFs

    by Wayne Beaton

    If my math skills are up to scratch (and I’m pretty confident they are), we have 72 slots for “birds of a feather” (BoF) sessions at EclipseCon this year. Realistically, we’ll probably lose a few of those slots as we get closer to the big event. As I’ve mentioned in...

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    Eclipse Community Awards

    by Benjamin Cabé

    C’est aujourd’hui le dernier jour pour nommer des candidats pour les Eclipse Community Awards ! Si le travail de certains contributeurs ou committers vous a particulièrement impressionnés, si des membres de la communauté font selon vous un travail d’évangélisation et de promotion d’Eclipse qui mérite d’être cité, alors n’hésitez pas...

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    Welcome Jetty

    by Anonymous

    One thing I have learnt while being at Eclipse is that creating a successful open source project and community is darn hard work. I have a lot of respect for anyone who is able to mix great technology and a passion for community, that are absolutes for successful projects. We...

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    Happy Birthday!

    by Mike Milinkovich

    Today marks the fifth birthday of the Eclipse Foundation. My how time flies when you’re having fun! It is customary to mark these types of occasions with a bit of an retrospective. My challenge is to try to condense the swirl of activity that is Eclipse into some common themes...

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    Identifier le deadlock d’une application Java

    by Benjamin Cabé

    Le wiki Eclipse détaille très clairement la procédure pour obtenir un dump de la JVM au moment précis où celle-ci semble soit complétement bloquée, soit tombée dans un mode dans lequel un thread s’est emballé et occupe 100% du CPU… Pour faire court, si vous avez un JDK 1.6 ou...

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    Jetty at Eclipse

    by Wayne Beaton

    The EMO just posted the Jetty Project Proposal. Jetty is a Java-based web server and implementation of the Servlet Specification and is currently hosted at The Codehaus under the Apache 2.0 license. The new project, which will fall under the Eclipse RT top-level project, has the following objectives: Maintain an...

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    Where is EMF Used?

    by Anonymous

    The Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) seems to be used everywhere and by everyone. IMHO, most people don’t appreciate how pervasive EMF usage is for managing data models. Therefore, in partnership with DZone we are running an ‘EMF Sightings’ competition. If you are using EMF, tell us how you are using...

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    Jeff McAffer discusses the EclipseCon 2009 Runtime Track

    by Wayne Beaton

    Jeff McAffer dropped by the Eclipse Foundation‘s Ottawa office on Monday to chat with me about the Runtime Track at EclipseCon 2009. You can listen to the recorded podcast on Eclipse Live. In the podcast, we chat about the agonizing selection process through which the programme committee managed to whittle...

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    Everyone is a winner…

    by Anonymous

    The nomination deadline for the Eclipse Community Awards is January 30. These awards are to recognize the work of all the great people in the Eclipse community. One unfortunate aspect is that only a few individuals are recognized as winners. This is really too bad since a lot of people...

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    EclipseCon BoF Proposals

    by Wayne Beaton

    The EclipseCon 2009 submissions system is now open for “ birds of a feather” (BoF) sessions. As in past years, this year we will be giving priority first to Eclipse projects. EclipseCon is a great place to get the team together and do one of those all-important face-to-face meetings in...

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