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At Eclipse, we have a healthy collection of open source projects that span the entire software lifecycle, including modeling, test, development and even process methodologies. The one area where no one seemed interested in starting an open source project was requirements management. I was never sure why not but this...

I’ve spent a few hours over the last few days reworking parts of my Eclipse Organizer example that I intend to contribute to the Eclipse Examples Project. Mostly, I’ve been working on introducing OSGi Services into the mix. Frankly, I’m totally in love with services. Yes—if I could—I’d marry them...

Last night I was looking at the registration data for EclipseCon. Eclipse is a great global community, so I was really pleased to see individuals coming to EclipseCon from 37 different countries, including: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Crotia, Czeck Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India...

The EclipseCon 2008 Birds of a Feather schedule is now available for your viewing pleasure. There is still space available if you want to schedule a BoF of your own. We’re still taking them on a first-come, first-served basis so don’t wait any longer than you need to. Be advised...

For those that like to live on the bleeding edge, the Ganymede M5 packages are now available for download. We would appreciate people downloading these and providing feedback. Two notable new and noteworthy items: Two new packages are now available, a package for ‘Software Architects and Modeling’ and a package...

EclipseCon is just 3 weeks away, so it is time to organize the annual EclipseCon Blogger Party. In previous years, we have had the party on Sunday evening in Hyatt lobby bar. So if you are a blogger and are interested in attending, send me an e-mail or better yet...

Nice to see Sprint’s next generation platform embracing Eclipse and OSGi. From the Titan web site: Titan is a next generation Java platform for Sprint Windows Mobile devices. In addition to supporting existing MIDP Java ME applications, it includes the more capable CDC/Foundation Java Virtual Machine and OSGi framework. This...

Once again a Sun open source project is having a revolt in their community. Last December, Sun was accused of playing hardball with an ex-employee over the governance structure of OpenDS. Now it seems the OpenSolaris community is in turmoil due to Sun’s decision over the use of the OpenSolaris...

Today we issued a press release announcing the 1.0 release of Eclipse Higgins. You can download the brand spanking new release from the project download site. Higgins is one of those Eclipse projects that has been quietly building a community but outside the core Eclipse community, ie. the identity management...

Today, we are launching a new series of Eclipse RCP training classes. Thanks to the participation of 8 Eclipse member companies, you can now attend a 4-day RCP course in one of 19 cities around the world. Last Fall, we ran a similar series of classes and the response was...