Blog Posts

An important success of the Eclipse ecosystem is the diversity of vendors that have created Eclipse-based products and/or Eclipse plug-ins that complement Eclipse-based products. This diversity has provides IT shops and end users a wide selection of options to address their development tool requirements. A challenge of this diversity is...

For kicks last night, I decided to see how well Apache Harmony could run Eclipse. The answer is “pretty well”. The Eclipse platform itself runs very well. I edited a bunch of files, manipulated a bunch of resources, dabbled a bit with some properties and preferences, and just generally kicked...

The Linux Distros Project just passed their creation review. I think this really shows the power and breadth of the Eclipse community. All of the major Linux distros, Novell/SuSe, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Debian, and Red Hat/Fedora are participating in this project. Their stated goal is to ‘Bring Eclipse technology to Liunx...

There’s no point in being subtle. You must try Mylar. Do it now. Today. I have to admit that I’ve been meaning to look at Mylar for a long time, but haven’t gotten much further than the demos. I finally took the time to load it in and start getting...

I have a soft spot in my heart for Borland. As with many people, Turbo Pascal was the first IDE I used and I even did some programming with Turbo Prolog. So it is great to see that Borland’s CodeGear has announced the release JBuilder 2007. Previously named Peleton, JBuilder...

We have three new webinars scheduled over the next couple of weeks. Coming up this week on Tuesday November 21, Building a Great GUI using Eclipse RCP features two Eclipse Platform committers: Kevin McGuire and Boris Bokowksi. Go here to register. On December 14, another RCP webinar titled ‘ Packaging...

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I have no idea why, but this question has come up in several different emails to the “license at eclipse.org” mail id this week. Maybe it’s because of Sun’s recent announcement that it was releasing Java under the GPL. The question has been asked...

The Eclipse Birthday Card has been a great success. Over 2000 people have signed the card. We are planning to keep the card active until the end of November and then we will do a randon draw to giveaway 20 Eclipse sweaters. A couple of things that jumped out at...

A recent poster eclipse.newcomer asked about customizing the look and feel of an Eclipse application. This is something that I’ve been meaning to try out for a long time, so I’ve started my journey down the path of customizing the look and feel of some of my sample applications. Eclipse...

I decided to take a look at the OpenJDK today. I directed my attention to the OpenJDK load instructions. There’s an omission in the instructions. They specify that the user name required to access the code is “$USER”. After several unsuccessful guesses at what this meant, I turned to the...