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Instantiations has been a long time player in the Eclipse ecosystem with their popular WindowBuilder product. Therefore, I was thrilled when the announced their new RCP Developer product. To help educate people on Eclipse RCP, Instantiations is sponsoring a webinar with the foks at Sys-con media. If you or someone...

I just noticed after a cursory review that six of the ten nominations for the JAX Innovation Award 2006 have something to do with Eclipse. Try as I might, I can’t figure out a reasonable way to put “Swing” in the title of this…

I’ve been working on a new RCP application over these past few weeks. The effort has pushed me to look at a few areas inside Eclipse that I haven’t previously explored. I rely heavily on calendar and task management software to manage my many different roles and responsibilities. Unfortunately, all...

Next week at JavaOne will be a busy week for the Eclipse community. If you are planning to attend the conference, I hope you can drop by the Eclipse booth. We will be demoing 9 different Eclipse projects, including BIRT, TPTP, VE, MTJ, Dali, ALF, WTP, JDT and RCP. We...

I, like many others, have enjoyed reading Ed Burnette‘s recent series on Sun joining Eclipse. Personally, I think it would be great to have Sun join Eclipse. It is obviously one of the questions I’ve been asked a lot since starting at Eclipse, and my answer has been the same...

An interesting new project proposal was just posted late last week called Rich Server Platform – User Interface Framework (RSP-UI). This is interesting to me, since it is another great example of the Eclipse community taking the Equinox OSGI framework and extending it into many different areas. Some other recent...

Curiously, I seem to get about twice as many hits on my blog whenever I include the word “Swing” in the title. I wonder why that is?

I’ve been using the Visual Editor to build some user interfaces for an Eclipse application that I’m building. As a distraction, I thought it might be fun to spend a few minutes cobbling together a Swing JFrame (okay, maybe “fun” isn’t the right word). Below is what it looks like...

As Chris pointed out a few days ago, the Eclipse Foundation is participating in Google’s Summer of Code. Philippe Ombredanne is helping me with the administration of the programme and has, quite frankly, been handling the bulk of the heavy lifting (thanks Philippe). We’ve also assembled an impressive list of...

Next week, I’m off to Eclipse Forum Europe in Wiesbaden, Germany. I’m really looking forward to the trip. We’re presenting an “ Eclipse Nite” which will be a combination of a reception and a seminar. That is, we’ll be presenting a few talks, but there will be refreshments. We’re also...