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The most recent stop on the Eclipse MLP Tour was Eclipse Summit Europe in Germany. Seems like MLP Java, enjoyed Erich Gamma’s keynote and the beautiful German city-scape. Unlike some other tours, the Eclipse MLP Tour keeps on going, demonstrating it is built on a quality foundation with a diverse...

One of the more interesting conference phenomenons is the informal court. These tend to spontaneously form around the some of our more well-known luminaries. Here’s a picture of Ed Merks holding court in the common area of Eclipse Summit Europe. The group has grown by another three people since I...

The Ingres folks are showing off their Eclipse Data Tools Project ( DTP) integration at Eclipse Summit Europe. The best part is that they’ve presented me with the holy grail: a potentially justifiable reason to get the Eclipse Foundation to buy me a Playstation 3. They’re demonstrating Eclipse, running the...

I think that I’ve mentioned before that I’m excited about the Riena project. So are some other people attending Eclipse Summit Europe. We had a presentation from Alex Ziegler about Riena at the RCP Experience Workshop which was well-received by everybody at the workshop. Alex is the project lead and...

Eclipse World is just around the corner, Nov 6-8 in Reston VA. Once again, the Eclipse Foundation is sponsoring a party/reception at Eclipse World on Wednesday, November 7 from 8-10pm. A number of Eclipse committers and project leaders will be on hand to demo their projects and answer questions from...

Technology partnering has always been an important aspect of the software industry. Customers typically want a ‘complete’ solution and look to their vendors to ensure they work well with each other. IMHO, I think Eclipse has made the partnering process a lot easier and there are two good example of...

The first hour (of four) of the RCP Experience Workshop at Eclipse Summit Europe is over. The main topic of discussion thus far has been authentication and authorization. Essentially, the concern is that of hiding (or at least disabling) features based on permissions (authorization) of the user. Several ideas have...

There will not be reserved seating and nobody will be turned away at the RCP Experience Workshop at Eclipse Summit Europe. That said, I’d like to give priority seating to those who have actual experiences to share (being as this is the focus of the workshop). I’d like to ask...

I’ve updated the RCP Experience Workshop wiki page to include a section on format. The short version is that we’re going to ask 2-3 people to stand up in front of the crowd and present their experiences with RCP. Each person will get 20 minutes. I’ve asked the folks representing...

Over the last few days, I’ve been communicating with a developer who was having trouble getting the Properties view to work with his view and objects. It turns out that the real problem was more a lack of understanding of the adapter framework. I came up with three progressive examples...