Blog Posts

Today, IDC and the Eclipse Foundation published the results of an Eclipse Community survey. This was the survey that was fielded on eclipse.org earlier this summer. Thank you to the 1000+ individuals that responded to the survey. We have posted a summary of the results and a link to the...

Over the past week or so, I’ve been discussing how you can make your objects adaptable into different forms. This is great for getting your objects to tightly integrate with existing parts of the Eclipse infrastructure, while remaining loosely coupled with the actual implementation. Loose coupling with tight integration is...

As noticed by Genady and others, the Eclipse Foundation is in the running to join the SE/EE Executive Committee of the Java Community Process. The question, of course, is why? I thought I would share our answer via my blog as well. …because we think we have a lot to...

A couple people have asked me for data on how fast people upgrade to a new version of Eclipse or specifically 3.3. Unfortunately, ‘data’ is difficult to get on Eclipse and in general open source. However, here is what I can find: In the first two months after the Europa...

Some local artists have expressed their excitement with the revitalized Visual Editor (VE) project at Eclipse. I thought that I’d share their artistic expression. For reasons unknown to me, the artists have opted to remain anonymous…

The Eclipse Foundation party at Eclipse World is starting to take shape. At the party, we will have committers from 9 different Eclipse projects answering questions and showing off the latest and greatest features in their projects. So, if you are going to Eclipse World, make sure you drop by...

The Eclipse community is very good at enabling innovation networks. Eclipse provides the ability for individuals and groups to create collaborative communities that drive innovation in a specific area. CDT is a great example but another up and coming project that appears to have an interesting community of committers is...

We came across this interesting quote in the Eclipse Summit Europe surveys: Ed’s and Rich’s demo of EMF/GMF (domain-specific modeling with the Eclipse Modeling Project) was unbelievable … I couldn’t help having a vision of a cottage where two madly giggling witches dance around a cauldron throwing in OCl, QVT...

In my last post on the topic, I hinted that adapters can be used to loosen the coupling in your code and then showed how you could use adapters to add even more coupling in your code. Originally, I had a domain class, Person, that knew how to provide information...

Based on my initial post, we now have Eclipse DemoCamps being organized in 14 cities around the world, including Budapest, Beijing, Sofia, Chicago, Ottawa, Palo Alto, Toronto and others. The goal of the DemoCamps is to organize local events where individuals can show off the interesting things they are doing...