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Normally, I like to make my unit tests so that they do not depend on external things running. As a general rule, I try to write tests that prove that the logic in my code works. While I care that communication between my application and, say, a database or application...

It has been just over 2 weeks since we open the Friends of Eclipse donation system. I would like to thank everyone who has taken the time to make a donation and show their support. Today we had a special donation of $500 from David Lynch. In his comment David...

Bug Labs is a company I have been watching over the last couple of months. Besides having a great name, they are building a platform for consumer electronics using OSGi for the runtime and Eclipse for the SDK. They just announced their Eclipse based SDK, Dragonfly is now available. It...

The Eclipse Open System Engineering Environment (OSEE) project is one I have been interested in watching. Of particular interest is the fact it is being led by a group of engineers inside Boeing. In my opinion, I think the next wave of open source projects will involve non-traditional ISV’s, companies...

I just received one of those standard project announcements from Anne Jacko, but in it was something which really caught my eye: ——————————————————————- EMFT Project Announcement The EMFT project would like to announcement the creation of a new component, EMF4NET. The goal of EMF4Net is to enhance the Eclipse Modeling...

I’ve been having a hard time scaling this year. I’ve received far more requests for appearances than I’ve been able to satisfy. With this in mind, I’m undertaking an effort to update the Eclipse Evangelism site to be more useful (or, to put it another way… useful). I’ve started some...

Each year at EclipseCon, the Eclipse Community Awards recognize some of the key individuals and technologies that help make Eclipse such a great community. This year is no different and the nominations for the awards are now open, so we need your help to nominate individuals and technologies. Deadline for...

Carey Schwaber at Forrester Research has just published an article on the ‘ Best Practices In Release Management‘. Eclipse, specifically our release trains, is used as a case study for demonstrating best practices. btw, I am sorry but the reports are only accessible to Forrester clients.

We’ve just published a new article on Eclipse Corner titled “Defining Generics with UML Templates” by James Bruck: Generics in Java have been around for a while but support for mapping generically specified artifacts in UML to their Ecore representation is new to UML2 2.1. This article will walk the...

Every time I look at RAP, I break into giggling fits. This stuff is just plain cool (though it does make it hard to convince my wife that I am indeed working in my home office, but I digress…) I’m planning to speak briefly about RAP during my “Eclipse and...