Months ago, I started a series based on a 2002 blog posting about Eclipse titled “Ten Reasons to Use Eclipse”. As of July, I’ve managed to get through first eight reasons (the previous entry is here). Today, I’m going to look at reason number nine: Team Development Eclipse is designed...
I’ve posted a podcast that I recorded last week with Alexey Aristov, co-project lead of the proposed Open Financial Market Platform ( OFMP) project. In this podcast, Alexey discusses the history and nature of the project, some of the challenges that lay ahead, and the results of the workshop held...
I am in Portland for the annual GOSCON conference, the government open source conference. I spoke at session this morning on using open source to adopt open standards; I think the session went well. One of the reasons I wanted to come to GOSCON is that I believe the next...
In my last installment, I showed how—by making a domain class implement IPropertySource and (naturally) implementing the methods required by that interface—you can expose properties from a domain class that can be viewed and modified by the Properties view. In that posting, I suggested that implementing IPropertySource introduces a tight...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...