According to this announcement, they are all building their next generation Java server technology on OSGi. If I am not mistaken, basically 95%+ of the Java server market is now based on OSGi. That is a pretty compelling statement on the importance of OSGi. Of course Equinox is a pretty...
I’d like to welcome Chris Aniszczyk to the Technology PMC. Chris is well-known throughout the community. He is a tireless champion of Eclipse Technology who seems to have his fingers in just about everything. Chris has big dreams for the Technology Project and intends to work hard to attract many...
It is with great pleasure that I welcome Gunnar Wagenknecht to the Technology Project‘s Project Management Committee (PMC). Gunnar’s name is no-doubt familiar to many of you: he is a very active member of the Eclipse Community and a prolific contributor (and, based on the pictures on his blog, he...
We are running a new series of Eclipse DemoCamps in November. The DemoCamps have proven to be a very popular way for local Eclipse communities to meet and show-off cool Eclipse technology. For instance, as pointed out by Jacek, the Poles love their DemoCamps. Organizing a DemoCamp is pretty easy...
We have just announced a new Eclipse Training Series that will run November 3 to December 13. In the past we have just offered an Introduction to RCP but this time we have expanded the course topics to include an Advanced RCP course, Equinox course and Modeling course (EMF, GMF...
Eclipse is proving to be a great community and platform for organizations to collaborate on implementing standards. There are lots of example but today there happened to be two announcements that highlight this theme. CA and IBM have announced they will be demonstrating support and interoperability for the CMDB Federation...
Bjorn and guests have been blogging about the results of the recent committer satisfaction survey at Eclipse. I think that the survey itself embodied genius in its simplicity: one question on “…how happy are you with the Foundation’s support of you and your project?” As the Executive Director, I am...
I learned a little something about accessibility today while playing with the Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF) project’s Java Validation Componentry (Javaco). Actually, I learned a couple of things before I learned the interesting part. First, Javaco currently works on Windows. Try as I might, Linux just isn’t supported. Lesson learned...
Congratulations to Genuitec on their decision to become a strategic developer member with the Eclipse Foundation. Genuitec was an early, active and valuable participant in the Eclipse community and their product MyEclipse is very popular with Eclipse users. Therefore, it is great to see them become even more involved.
Dwight Deugo and I have been relatively quietly pounding away on a new “ Eclipse IDE for Education” component in the SOC project (though I did blog about this a few posts back). The idea is to try and reduce some of the complexity faced by first time users of...