Blog Posts

Last year at JavaOne, the highlight for me was the Redmonk Unconference. It was a great venue to network, learn and discuss issues relevant to the open source community. The guys at Redmonk do a great job of bringing together the technologist and the business/marketing types into one place. I...

SpringSource has just launched a new application server, called SpringSource Application Platform, that is based on Equinox, Tomcat and Spring. The key thing is that it is not a Java EE application server but one that has been designed for modular development and deployment. InfoQ has a good write-up about...

I have some JavaOne Pavlion passes to give away. If anyone wants a pass to access the exhibit hall, please send me an e-mail. (ian at eclipse dot org.)

JavaOne is in two weeks. Once again, the Eclipse Foundation will have a booth, be giving away Eclipse t-shirts and having our party at the Thirsty Bear. Besides free Eclipse SWAG and beer, there are also some interesting Eclipse related sessions at JavaOne: The Many Moons of Eclipse, Tuesday, May...

I am starting to work on the launch plans for Ganymede. I have a lot of respect and admiration (especially their graphics) for the way Mozilla promotes Firefox, so it was great to see Paul Kim blogging about their plans for Firefox 3. I agree with Paul, that having a...

We’re mixing things up a little for Eclipse Nite at JAX 2008 tonight. I turns out that the original room is just a little too close to a live band, so we’re moving across the building to room 6A. We’ll only be in room 6A for a few minutes; we’re...

A blog post on CIO.com is making the point that participation in an open source project can help kick-start your career. I often find that individual developers like to work on open source projects, since it is fun and even ‘cool’. The ability to get peer recognition and immediate feedback...

J’ai été très mauvaise langue avec certains de mes collègues en leur conseillant de rester à la version 3.4 M5 d’Eclipse, p2 fonctionnant très mal sur la M6. Et bien, je retire tout ce que j’ai dit —pour l’instant En effet, depuis quelques jours, tous les packages M6 de Ganymede...

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...