Blog Posts

    Announcing RAP 1.0 – the other press release

    by Anonymous

    We are announcing the 1.0 release of Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) on Monday. I find the press releases I’ve been writing lately have been kind of boring. I also found this press release recently announced on O’Reilly Radar very refreshing. Therefore, I decided to write an alternative press release...

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    XAML on SWT

    by Wayne Beaton

    I spoke with Yves Yang today at the Eclipse: Now You Can conference (I think it was a “conference”) in Paris about the eFace product he’s been working on. It appeared on TSS today; you can find the link here. You can find more information here and here. Essentially, eFace...

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    Sun Joins OSGi Alliance

    by Anonymous

    Earlier this week, I received a copy of the quarterly OSGi newsletter, including an interesting tibit about new members of the OSGi Alliance: In the time since my last e-mail to members, the OSGi Alliance has welcome two new members. One of the, Sun Microsystems, is a previous (and actually...

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    Eclipse MLP Tour Goes To Europe

    by Anonymous

    The most recent stop on the Eclipse MLP Tour was Eclipse Summit Europe in Germany. Seems like MLP Java, enjoyed Erich Gamma’s keynote and the beautiful German city-scape. Unlike some other tours, the Eclipse MLP Tour keeps on going, demonstrating it is built on a quality foundation with a diverse...

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    Holding Court

    by Wayne Beaton

    One of the more interesting conference phenomenons is the informal court. These tend to spontaneously form around the some of our more well-known luminaries. Here’s a picture of Ed Merks holding court in the common area of Eclipse Summit Europe. The group has grown by another three people since I...

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    Eclipstation

    by Wayne Beaton

    The Ingres folks are showing off their Eclipse Data Tools Project ( DTP) integration at Eclipse Summit Europe. The best part is that they’ve presented me with the holy grail: a potentially justifiable reason to get the Eclipse Foundation to buy me a Playstation 3. They’re demonstrating Eclipse, running the...

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    Follow me to Riena

    by Wayne Beaton

    I think that I’ve mentioned before that I’m excited about the Riena project. So are some other people attending Eclipse Summit Europe. We had a presentation from Alex Ziegler about Riena at the RCP Experience Workshop which was well-received by everybody at the workshop. Alex is the project lead and...

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    Party at Eclipse World

    by Anonymous

    Eclipse World is just around the corner, Nov 6-8 in Reston VA. Once again, the Eclipse Foundation is sponsoring a party/reception at Eclipse World on Wednesday, November 7 from 8-10pm. A number of Eclipse committers and project leaders will be on hand to demo their projects and answer questions from...

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    Partnership made easier with Eclipse

    by Anonymous

    Technology partnering has always been an important aspect of the software industry. Customers typically want a ‘complete’ solution and look to their vendors to ensure they work well with each other. IMHO, I think Eclipse has made the partnering process a lot easier and there are two good example of...

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    Authentication and Authorization at the RCP Experience Workshop

    by Wayne Beaton

    The first hour (of four) of the RCP Experience Workshop at Eclipse Summit Europe is over. The main topic of discussion thus far has been authentication and authorization. Essentially, the concern is that of hiding (or at least disabling) features based on permissions (authorization) of the user. Several ideas have...

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