Blog Posts

The uptake on Mark Dexter’s “ Eclipse and Java for Total Beginners” tutorials has been nothing short of phenomenal. He’s showing some impressive (no, staggering) download statistics and a discussion thread attached to his project is filled with kudos. Mark is helping a lot of people get started with the...

Denis just sent out the download stats for the Europa packages to the cross project mailing list. I thought a wider audience might be interested, so I will reproduce them here. As of Sept. 4 if you add up the downloads of the SDK, Platform and EPP package there has...

The latest rage in the software marketing seems to be doing road shows on buses or trucks. The Adobe AIR bus seemed to have started the trend and now the NetBean’s guys are following up with the NetBean’s mobile. There is even a good natured competition on who has the...

We have over 500 responses for the Eclipse community survey. We’d like to get closer to 800-1000, so if you haven’t taken the time to fill out the survey please take the time to do it today. It should only take 10-15 minutes and your feedback will be very helpful...

Early this summer, we announce the Eclipse RCP training series. If you are building or thinking about building an application based on Eclipse RCP, then you might want to consider registering for one of the 4-day classes. Classes are being offered in Amsterdam, Berlin, Boston, Braunschweig, Brussels, Chicago, Denver, Luxembourg...

Open source business models and open source business strategies are always a hot topic. Therefore, I was really interested in seeing the Actuate CEO discuss their strategy and the successes they are having by participating in the Eclipse community. An interesting read for anyone thinking about this topic.

Sun has decided to rename their stock ticker from SUNW to JAVA. These types of announcements really give the marketing profession a bad reputation. The comments on Johnathan Schwartz blog are pretty brutal. The Sun marketing folks really need to give their heads a good shake. More seriously I think...

The call for participation in the Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE) Symposia is out. The symposia will be held on October 9th, the day before the start of the conference which runs October 10th and 11th. Seven sessions are planned: Application Provisioning hosted by Jeff McAffer and Tim Webb Eclipse Modeling...

In July, we posted an updated version of In Harmony with Eclipse (I say we, but Alexey did the work). This new version features the Eclipse SDK 3.3 on top of Harmony 5.0M2. There are downloads for Windows and Linux. The Harmony developers are working hard to make their runtime...

I am back from vacation and have hopefully cleared out my e-mail and blog spam. Last week we announced an Eclipse community survey. The intention is to gather feedback from the Eclipse community to better understand how we make things better. The survey takes 10-15 minutes to complete. As an...