Blog Posts

    Server-Side Eclipse – the dynamic server platform based on OSGi

    by Wayne Beaton

    Sometimes it feels like I’m stalking Frank Gerhardt. Or maybe I just like listening to German speakers. Whatever the case, it seems that almost every single talk I’ve attended has been presented by Frank, or one of his countrypersons… This afternoon, I’m attending “ Server-Side Eclipse – the dynamic server...

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    Working Together: Sun Glassfish and EclipseLink

    by Anonymous

    In addition to the Equinox announcement, we did a second press release that I think it is very significant and a great example of open source and open standards working together. EclipseLink has been chosen by Sun to be the reference implementation for JPA 2.0. The Glassfish team has also...

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    And the Winnners are…

    by Anonymous

    Tonight we announced the winners of the Eclipse Community Awards. The winners this year represent a great cross-section of the Eclipse community. In the individual category, Ed Merks, blogger/photographer/modeler extraordinaries won the Top Ambassador Chris Aniszczyk (zx) of PDE fame took the Top Committer Remy Suen, a student at the...

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    Understanding JFace Data Binding

    by Wayne Beaton

    I’ve tinkered with the JFace DataBinding, but haven’t had a chance to really dig into it. So, this afternoon I attended “ Understanding JFace Data Binding“, presented by Boris Bokowski (IBM Rational Software), Michael Scharf (Wind River), and Frank Gerhardt (Gerhardt Informatics). I loved the presentation style. They very likely...

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    Building Secure OSGi Applications

    by Wayne Beaton

    I sat in on Marcel Offermans’, Karl Pauls’ (both from luminis) tutorial titled “ Building Secure OSGi Applications“. Marcel and Karl provided a good incremental discovery approach to the tutorial, starting with the pre-OSGi 4.0 way of managing permission and moving quickly into the state of the art. The take-away...

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    The Next Thing At Eclipse…

    by Anonymous

    The news at EclipseCon is something the Eclipse community has been doing for a while but not a lot of people know about it. The press announcement at EclipseCon is our new runtime initiative: the creation of the top-level Eclipse RT project and a new Equinox Community. Those who watch...

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    EclipseCon Guide to Free Stuff

    by Anonymous

    I just finished registering for EclipseCon and took a look through the flyers in the registration bag. One thing I noticed is the number of cool giveaways, so as a service to all EclipseCon attendees, here is the unofficial EclipseCon Guide to Free Stuff. AMD is giving away 1GB flash...

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    Subversive or Subclipse?

    by Wayne Beaton

    Jesper was curious about Subclipse use captured by the Usage Data Collector, so I tweaked my queries to stop obfuscating the Subclipse bundles. The results for Subclipse and Subversive use by 465 users over the past 14 days are shown here. First, the commands: org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.ui.commit (invoked 805 times) org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.ui.update (invoked...

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    Election Results

    by Mike Milinkovich

    We announced the results of the 2008 board elections earlier today. The turnout this year was a modest improvement over last year. There were 148 committer votes cast, and 29 Add-In Provider votes. For 2008 there were 5 spots for each class of elected representative. This means that the Add-In...

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    Usage Data Collector Usage

    by Wayne Beaton

    Over the past 14 days, 453 (526 in total) of you have consented to upload your usage data to the Eclipse Foundation server. There hasn’t been a lot of change in the top five commands: org.eclipse.ui.file.save 87098 org.eclipse.ui.edit.text.goto.wordNext 71274 org.eclipse.ui.edit.delete 66449 org.eclipse.ui.edit.paste 57309 org.eclipse.ui.edit.text.goto.wordPrevious 51138 Perspective use has some interesting...

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