Blog Posts

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...

I am heading to London, UK next week for the first ever Eclipse PluginFest. I am really pleased with the way this is turning out. We have 20 companies and over 40 individuals meeting at the Symbian offices in London. More importantly we have great representation across the tool chain:IDEs...

I’ve been putting a lot of thought into Eclipse Corner lately. We’ve been getting a lot of proposals and submissions lately, and some of them have given me cause to reflect on just what kind of content should be posted on Eclipse Corner. The process today is pretty straight forward...

Eclipse Developer’s Journal has published an article from Todd Williams titled “ Eclipse: A Solid Desktop, Rich-Client, or Embedded Application Framework“. It provides a good overview of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform ( RCP). If you’re thinking about building a rich client application, it’s definitely worth reading. I’ve updated the...

This is rather cool. As noted by Nat Torkington, Dave Thomas has just been recognized by the ACM as a Distinguished Engineer. Dave was the founder of OTI, which after it was acquired by IBM eventually became the core development team for Eclipse. Other than my family, he’s probably had...

As has already been reported by eWeek, InfoWorld and Linux Watch the Eclipse Foundation is going through the process of joining three different standards organizations: the Java Community Process ( JCP), the Object Management Group ( OMG) and the OSGi Alliance. I guess that we should be flattered that Eclipse...