I’m off to Germany next week for a fun-filled week of Eclipse-based excitement. With the arrival of Europa this week, next week is sure to be a great time to out with the people. The first event is a visit on Tuesday evening to the Java User Group Cologne where...
We have added the Europa countdown clock to eclipse.org home page. According to Denis, the plan is to have the downloads live at 9:00amET Friday June 29. Last year we were 6-7 hours past this time, so it will be interesting to see how close we can get this year...
Cote from Redmonk is doing a series of videocasts about some of the Eclipse projects involved in Europa. He is interviewing Eclipse project leaders, as they give a demo of what’s new in their project release. The goal is to combine podcasts and webinars concepts to bring to life what...
Last week Michael Tiemann, president of the Open Source Initiative, wrote a blog post saying that the OSI is going to start being more vocal about software vendors claiming to be open source but were not using an OSI approved license. As a refresher, OSI is the organization that approves...
…I may just lose it. I’ve had this darned picture—taken at JavaOne 2007—on my desk for a little more than a month. I keep looking at it and thinking that I should scan it, put it on my blog and then send the original to the shredder. As I look...
I’ve always wanted to start a blog with that famous line and this recent opinion piece from eWeek, Is Open Source Dying, is a perfect reason. It is clear that the writer is either: 1) Naive about open source software. 2) Writing piffy headlines to get attention. 3) Just got...
I recently recorded a flash demo of the creation—using annotations—of a web service for JBoss 4.2 using a pre-release of the new Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers (the work-in-progress landing page is here). You can find the demo here. Creating the web service is pretty easy. I noticed that...
As a follow-up to my post about China being our #1 country for downloads, Denis made the point that we have only one mirror in China; thanks to Actuate. Given, we are getting ready for the Europa release, this would be a great time to add some mirrors in China...
Today we published an article on Eclipse Corner titled, “SWT/Swing Integration”. This is a pretty important topic that is of great interest to a lot of folks. The article was written by Gordon Hirsch, based on some real world experience with the SWT_AWT bridge component (which allows you to host...
Part of my job at the Eclipse Foundation is to work with the different industry analyst in our space. We do a lot of work with the guys at Redmonk and I have always been impressed with their knowledge of everything. Therefore, I was not surprised to see them at...