Blog Posts

    University Outreach and the Google Summer of Code

    by Wayne Beaton

    The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme has been a great vehicle for university outreach. For the 2008 running of GSoC, the Eclipse Foundation received student 127 applications from almost as many institutions. Most of the students submitting proposals were currently enrolled in undergraduate programmes, but many where pursuing graduate-level...

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    Glassfish + OSGi + Equinox + Eclipse = Good Job Sun

    by Anonymous

    Glassfish v3 Prelude was launched today. Check out the Aquarium site for all the links and details. Three things that I think are great to see: The Glassfish team seems to be very committed to OSGi. The key new feature in v3 seems to be the fact they support OSGi...

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    Report on Open Source Strategies

    by Anonymous

    The 451 Group has published a new report titled ‘ Open Source is Not a Business Model’. It is one of the best surveys and analysis that detail how software companies have integrated open source into their product strategies. The survey analyzes the approaches of over 100 different ISVs ranging...

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    Eclipse Demo Camp Season Has Started

    by Anonymous

    The month of November is Eclipse Demo Camp Season. We are running Demo Camps in 30 cities around the world. Last week, we had a great start in Karlsruhe Germany which was sold out with 75 people attending. Why not see if there is a Demo Camp near you and...

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    Get your proposals in for EclipseCon 2009!

    by Wayne Beaton

    The EclipseCon 2009 submission system is now open and ready for your talk proposals. Be sure to get your talk proposal in before the November 24th deadline. Now… November 24th sounds like a long way off, but it’ll be here … Continue reading →

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    Eclipse 3.5M3 est disponible!

    by Benjamin Cabé

    La milestone 3 de Galileo est sortie hier, et amène (comme d’habitude ?) plein de nouveautés très sympa, extraites du traditionnel “ New & Noteworthy” : Platform La sélection par bloc dans les éditeurs texte fait enfin son apparition (un bug était ouvert depuis… 2002 !), et c’est un grand...

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    Presentation from the Eclipse Marketing Symposium

    by Anonymous

    As I have previously mentioned, this past week we hosted the fourth Eclipse Marketing Symposium at Eclipse World. I have posted the presentation slides from all of the speakers. To recap, the sessions included: Getting Developers to Listen – Matthew Schmidt from DZone/JavaLobby Actuate Case Study – Rich Guth from...

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    OSGi development with Eclipse Equinox – Tutorial

    by Wayne Beaton

    Lars Vogel is quickly becoming one of our most prolific contributors. His latest entry teaches the reader how to create that first bundle and gently introduces the terminology and technology around OSGi and Equinox. Send comments about the article directly to Lars (his email address is on the article).

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    CASCON 2008

    by Wayne Beaton

    I spent a couple of hours at CASCON 2008 today. The conference, brought to us by the good folks at IBM’s Centers for Advanced Studies (CAS). This conference brings together researchers from industry and university to learn from each other and share what they’ve been working on. I attended today...

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