Blog Posts

Warning! if you have no experience building plug-ins, this post will probably mean very little to you. A few days ago, I was working with Anton, one of my Google Summer of Code students, trying to figure out how one might implement Eclipse plug-ins using scripts. More specifically, we were...

Mark Dexter has made a series of videos to help you get started with Java development using Eclipse. He’s posted the first video on YouTube. A better quality version of this first lesson, along with another 15 lessons and a companion document have been released on SourceForge.

We have just launched a new version of the EPIC home page. The focus was making it easier to navigate the plug-in catalog and place less emphasis on the news section. We also introduced a new banner, similar to the Eclipse Live style. You might notice too the icons in...

Something that a lot of people don’t understand about Eclipse Java development tools ( JDT) is that the “build” path and the “runtime” classpath are actually two different things. The “build” path, oddly enough, is used by the Java compiler when building a project. If you’re building a plain-old Java...

Registration is now open for Eclipse Summit Europe. There is a limit of 400 attendees, so register now so you won’t be disappointed and save a few Euros on the early registration fees.

The second annual Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE) takes place October 9-11, 2007 at Forum am Schlosspark in Ludwigsburg, which is in the Stuttgart region of Germany. ESE is the Eclipse Foundation’s premier event designed to create opportunities for the European Eclipse community to explore, share, and collaborate on the latest...

There’s been a bit of conversation going on between Savio Rodrigues and Angry Bill Burke about the value of trademarks this week. This is rather timely, given the recent update to the Eclipse Foundation Trademark Guidelines and the parallel conversation about “ CDT for Windows” going on between Ian Skerrett...

The PHP Development Tools ( PDT) Project has been hard at work producing the next version of some excellent tools for building PHP applications. I have been using the 1.0M1 release (the PDT downloads page points to their update site) for a few weeks now and am really impressed. Here’s...

It’s long past time to continue on a path I started down some time ago. About four years ago, Renaud Waldura posted a blog entry titled “Ten Reasons to Use Eclipse”. A few months back, I started reviewing the ten reasons to see what’s changed. My previous entries are here...

Apparently, there is some confusion about the name of the “ Mylyn” project. Let me try and clear it up. This is “Our Lynn”, the Eclipse Foundation’s Marketing Events Manager. This is “Mylyn”, the Task-Focused UI for Eclipse that reduces information overload and makes multi-tasking easy. Any questions?