Stephen Schaub has updated his article titled, “ Creating Database Web Applications with Eclipse“. The article’s abstract reads: The Eclipse Web Tools and Data Tools Projects deliver a feature-rich environment for developing Java EE database-driven web applications. This tutorial walks you through the process of creating a simple database web...
The EPP project has made available the Ganymede M6 packages. These are being made available via the new packaging download page. It would be great to get feedback on the packages and the new packages download page. Speak now; Ganymede is just 10 weeks away.
Openlogic has launched a new initiative called ‘ The Open Source Census‘. Usage data for open source projects is difficult to obtain, so it is great to see OpenLogic take on this initiative. I will be interested in seeing how it progresses. There are two ways the Eclipse community can...
JavaOne is just around the corner; in less than 3 weeks. Once again we are organizing an Eclipse party on the Wednesday night of JavaOne. This year it will be at the Thirsty Bear, so if you will be at JavaOne and want to attend please RSVP.
The new Eclipse Examples Project has been created, provisioned, and set to an incubation-conforming state. In short, we’re good to go. I have some code that’s ready to move into the project (pending PMC approval and IP review). But before that, we need to finalize a proper plan for the...
Harvard Business Review has published a case study titled ‘ Open Source: Salvation or Suicide‘? The focus of the case is a fictitious company that is dealing with the pros and cons of open sourcing their gaming platform. It is great to see Harvard paying attention to open source, however...
The Sun GlassFish team have announced that the upcoming GlassFish v3 release will run on OSGi. This is great news for the OSGi community and for the GlassFish team. If I am not mistaken, now all the major Java application servers are/will be running on an OSGi runtime. It will...
In the theme of vertical open source projects, it is interesting to see Marketcetera’s trading platform. They are providing an open source trading platform for financial institutions. They use Eclipse RCP for the front end order entry application. I am more and more convinced we will see vendors and end-user...
Open Health Tools is a new organization that is being started to create an common and open platform for healthcare products and services. Some interesting things about this organizations: – This is a great example of industry specific organizations collaborating in an open source community. It features Canada Health Infoway...
Le jeudi 29 mai 2008, et pour la troisième année consécutive, se tiendra à Toulouse –à la Cité de l’Espace- le salon EclipseTime, organisé par Anyware Technologies ! Comme chaque année, les interventions seront assurées par des membres de la fondation Eclipse, des représentants de grands comptes et des experts...