Blog Posts

Yang Seok-Ho has translated Jeff McAffer and Jean-Michel Lemieux’s “Eclipse Rich Client Platform: Designing, Coding, and Packaging Java Applications” into Korean. This book is considered by many to be a must-read resource for anybody building applications using the Eclipse Rich Client Platform ( RCP). You find the translation here. The...

I’ve been playing with Jigloo this evening. I noticed earlier today that the entry on EPIC for Jigloo claimed support for GroupLayout, so I decided to take a closer look. The current release version, 3.9.5, supports the org.jdesktop.layout.GroupLayout that you can find as part of the Swing Layout project. As...

I’ve just posted an update to the article “ Implementing Model Integrity in EMF with MDT OCL” on Eclipse Corner. The article has been updated for EMF 2.3/Java 5.0 and MDT OCL 1.1.

There seems to be some uncertainty regarding a return visit of the NetBeans Girls to EclipseCon 2007. Not to leave things to chance, I thought it might be appropriate to write a petition to Jonathan Schwartz requesting that they attend EclipseCon 2007. If you agree, please ‘sign’ the petition by...

You may recall a post a while back about a new and exciting blog titled “Eclipse Sucks”, hosted by a German post-graduate student Hobel. If you followed his blog, you’d have noticed that it started out very negative of Eclipse, but appeared to get warmer over time. Now the blog...

A new Eclipse Corner article has been published that discusses the use of Maven 2 to build Eclipse Plug-ins. The abstract reads: In a mature and agile development environment, it is vital that the developers are kept productive and that builds are done continuously and dependably. Eclipse is a great...

I’ve been focusing a lot of my attention on Eclipse Web Tools over the past few days. I’ve been looking mostly at how one builds servlets, JSPs, and EJBs using Eclipse Web Tools. I’ve been using Web Tools 2.0M4 (along with its specified prerequisites). Today, I turned my attention to...

Last year we organized the first EclipseCon Blogger party. Is anyone up for a repeat engagement? I suggest we hold it Sunday, March 4 from 6-8pm. I know some people come in late Sunday night but every other night just seems booked with other parties and BOFs. I will buy...

The finalist for the Eclipse Community Awards have been announced. Congratulations to everyone. The winners will be announced Monday, March 5 at EclipseCon. Good luck to all.

I came across two good blog post this morning that reminded me about the first principles of marketing and community building for an open source project. Adventures in Open Source makes the point that for an open source project to be successful to has to be ‘ extremely useful‘ and...