Blog Posts

For my money, there just hasn’t been enough talk about Mylar lately. And I think I understand why. At least for me, Mylar has become such an integrated part of my workday, that I don’t really think all that much about it. It’s the same for the Java Development Tools...

I recently added Korean to the list of languages we have Eclipse Resources available in. In addition to Korean, we have resources in English (of course), French, German, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese. I’m pretty excited by the prospect of having some Eclipse Corner Articles available in Korean as well. We...

In this podcast, Ed Merks, Project Lead of the Eclipse Modeling Framework ( EMF) Project, discusses the work being done on the latest release of EMF to support Java 5, along with other EMF topics.

The Eclipse Corner Article titled “ Contributing Actions to the Eclipse Workbench” has been updated by Ketan Padegaonkar.

Yang Seok-Ho has translated Jeff McAffer and Jean-Michel Lemieux’s “Eclipse Rich Client Platform: Designing, Coding, and Packaging Java Applications” into Korean. This book is considered by many to be a must-read resource for anybody building applications using the Eclipse Rich Client Platform ( RCP). You find the translation here. The...

I’ve been playing with Jigloo this evening. I noticed earlier today that the entry on EPIC for Jigloo claimed support for GroupLayout, so I decided to take a closer look. The current release version, 3.9.5, supports the org.jdesktop.layout.GroupLayout that you can find as part of the Swing Layout project. As...

I’ve just posted an update to the article “ Implementing Model Integrity in EMF with MDT OCL” on Eclipse Corner. The article has been updated for EMF 2.3/Java 5.0 and MDT OCL 1.1.

There seems to be some uncertainty regarding a return visit of the NetBeans Girls to EclipseCon 2007. Not to leave things to chance, I thought it might be appropriate to write a petition to Jonathan Schwartz requesting that they attend EclipseCon 2007. If you agree, please ‘sign’ the petition by...

You may recall a post a while back about a new and exciting blog titled “Eclipse Sucks”, hosted by a German post-graduate student Hobel. If you followed his blog, you’d have noticed that it started out very negative of Eclipse, but appeared to get warmer over time. Now the blog...

A new Eclipse Corner article has been published that discusses the use of Maven 2 to build Eclipse Plug-ins. The abstract reads: In a mature and agile development environment, it is vital that the developers are kept productive and that builds are done continuously and dependably. Eclipse is a great...