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We wrapped up the Eclipse PluginFest last night and by all accounts people were very pleased with the outcome. 18 companies, 4 Eclipse projects and around 45 individuals attended the event at the Symbian offices in London. Most of the attendees were from the key vendors in the embedded and...

There are a great many features in Eclipse that I take for granted. One is the handy way that the "Add CVS Repository" wizard handles CVS URLs. The wizard is opened from the "CVS Repositories" view, by selecting menu item "New > Repository location…". When you first see the wizard...

As I mentioned on Monday, incubating projects now have the ability to start developing in parallel with the IP review and approval process. That’s clearly good news for all those new projects eager to get a fast start once they’ve been created. In the same Board meeting where this new...

I think that everybody agrees: choice is good. And with Eclipse comes lots of choice; just look at Eclipse Plug-in Central (EPIC) (which is pretty much the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Eclipse plug-ins). Given that choice is good, it may seem strange that there are so...

S&S Media has just announced Eclipse Forum India to be held May 28-31 in Bangalore India. This is great news. There is a large growing Eclipse community in India, so it is nice to have an Eclipse oriented conference to serve it.

So the big news in RCP-land this week is coming from Lotusphere, where there is much talk about Eclipse-based rich clients. Check out this screenshot gallery of the next version of Lotus Notes based on Eclipse RCP. This is an awesome demonstration of the ability of RCP to enable compelling...

I have some very good news for new projects at Eclipse. At the board meeting last week, an important revision to the Eclipse Intellectual Property Policy was approved. Under the new revision, projects which are in incubation — and which are clearly marking their webpages and downloads as such —...

I just stumbled across the news that the GCJ team is now using the Eclipse Compiler for Java as the front end to GCJ. This is pretty darn cool. ECJ is a rock-solid and highly regarded technology. I’m glad to see it getting even more adoption. It has been used...

James Governor started with ‘ Microsoft Announces an Eclipse Project‘. Then Steve Wali follows up with his very insightful thought experiement for a Microsoft open source strategy. Part of his strategy is that MS should put Visual Studio into maintenance mode and start an Eclipse C# project. hmmmm….. I actually...

As I have previously mentioned, Josh Reed was down in Antarctica participating in the ANDRILL project and using his Eclipse RCP application, called PSICAT, to analyse the drill cores. Josh is back and he has done a podcast with Jon Erickson of DDJ to explain his project. Give it a...