Blog Posts

    Boeing’s code contribution to OSEE

    by Anonymous

    The Eclipse Open System Engineering Environment (OSEE) project is one I have been interested in watching. Of particular interest is the fact it is being led by a group of engineers inside Boeing. In my opinion, I think the next wave of open source projects will involve non-traditional ISV’s, companies...

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    .NET Coolness

    by Mike Milinkovich

    I just received one of those standard project announcements from Anne Jacko, but in it was something which really caught my eye: ——————————————————————- EMFT Project Announcement The EMFT project would like to announcement the creation of a new component, EMF4NET. The goal of EMF4Net is to enhance the Eclipse Modeling...

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    Evangelism Scalability

    by Wayne Beaton

    I’ve been having a hard time scaling this year. I’ve received far more requests for appearances than I’ve been able to satisfy. With this in mind, I’m undertaking an effort to update the Eclipse Evangelism site to be more useful (or, to put it another way… useful). I’ve started some...

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    Nominations now open for the Eclipse Community Awards

    by Anonymous

    Each year at EclipseCon, the Eclipse Community Awards recognize some of the key individuals and technologies that help make Eclipse such a great community. This year is no different and the nominations for the awards are now open, so we need your help to nominate individuals and technologies. Deadline for...

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    Forrester Report on Release Management

    by Anonymous

    Carey Schwaber at Forrester Research has just published an article on the ‘ Best Practices In Release Management‘. Eclipse, specifically our release trains, is used as a case study for demonstrating best practices. btw, I am sorry but the reports are only accessible to Forrester clients.

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    Defining Generics with UML Templates

    by Wayne Beaton

    We’ve just published a new article on Eclipse Corner titled “Defining Generics with UML Templates” by James Bruck: Generics in Java have been around for a while but support for mapping generically specified artifacts in UML to their Ecore representation is new to UML2 2.1. This article will walk the...

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    Interesting Eclipse Products on a Friday afternoon

    by Anonymous

    This week a number of interesting Eclipse based products came to my via Google alerts. Really does remind one that Eclipse is being used in all sorts of industrys. Ambric announced their Eclipse based tools for programming massively parallel processors. btw, if you are looking for a job in Oregan...

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    The Importance of Open Source Project Governance

    by Anonymous

    Michael Dolan has written an interesting commentary on the differences between corporate led open source projects and Foundation led open source projects. He uses Eclipse, Linux, OpenSolaris and OpenDS as examples. It is well worth the read. In my mind Michael has captured the essence of why it is important...

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    1000 Plugins on EPIC

    by Anonymous

    We now have 1000 plug-ins listed on EPIC. This is a significant milestone and we appreciate everyone that has published their products, open source projects and services on EPIC. I know there are many more Eclipse based products that are not listed on EPIC, so please feel free to add...

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