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We are organizing an Eclipse party at JavaOne, Wednesday, May 9, 7-10pm. This year we are holding the party at Jillians, near the Moscone. Last year, the party was a lot of fun, so I am looking forward to seeing everyone again. If you are interested in attending, please send...

Once again the Eclipse Foundation will have a booth at JavaOne. As an exhibitor we get a number of ‘free’ pavilion passes that allow you access to the exhibit area but not the sessions. If you would like one of these passes, please send an e-mail to Lynn Gayowski (lynn...

Simon Phipps, Sun’s Open Source Go-To- Guy, was kind enough to respond to my blog post about Sun’s lack of response to the Apache Harmony open letter to Sun regarding their licensing of the JCK. Since his response was buried in the comments of my original post, I thought it...

If you are making plans to attend JavaOne, you might consider attending the Redmonk Unconference on Monday, May 7. James, Stephen and Cote, the Redmonk analyst, are pretty cools guys, with lots of opinions and insight, so it should be a good time. I plan on attending and I look...

I am intrigued by Sun’s response, or lack of, to Apache Software Foundation letter regarding the licensing of the JCK. For those that haven’t read the letter, it seems Sun is trying to impose license restrictions, via the JCK license, on Apache that would limit Harmony’s ‘field of use’. According...

AvantSoft has started an interesting new portal, called Eclipse University. The goal is to offer Eclipse training on-line, so you don’t have to travel to a new location. It sounds like an interesting concept and I’d be interested in people’s experiences with virtual training. Feel free to leave a comment...

The folks at BZ Media are getting organized for Eclipse World 2007, November 6-8 in Reston VA. I really enjoyed Eclipse World last year, so I am looking forward to the event this year. To help them make the event even better, they are requesting some feedback from the community...

Unlike my rather tongue-and-cheek open letter to Jonathan Schwartz, Geir Magnusson has penned a much more serious open letter about Sun’s restrictions to the JCK. It will be interesting to see how Sun responds but it certainly seems like Sun is not being fair or open. When Sun announced they...

Don’t forget to vote for your favourite Eclipse-based technologies in the latest run of the JDJ Readers’ Choice Awards.

ESC is always an interesting event for me; the embedded market is so different from enterprise application development. I think the biggest difference is the diversity and raw number of vendors. Hundreds of these vendors selling boards, processors, memory, rtos, compilers, debuggers, tools, etc. The end users are building airplanes...