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I get this question every once in a while: why is Eclipse so big? Typically, the person asking the question is thinking about the SDK. Why is the Eclipse SDK ( version 3.2RC4) 121MB? It’s a good question. The name “Eclipse SDK” provides a hint: it is the Software Development...

I’ve finally made it to JavaOne. It’s my first time here and I have to admit that I’m a little overwhelmed. It’s a huge conference. Today, the title of my blog is not an insane attempt to attract more traffic… I was working the Eclipse Foundation booth earlier today and...

So we had a very interesting milestone at Eclipse yesterday. Our first ever committer from Sun committed code to CVS. Suresh Raju contributed code to get Eclipse working on Solaris x86. Welcome Suresh! We were first introduced to the Solaris x86 team by Simon Phipps, who runs open source strategy...

There have been a number of Eclipse related announcements this year at JavaOne. I thought it might be useful to do a summary; so in no particular order: Borland lays out their JBuilder roadmap. Sybase announces next version of their Workspace product. Nokia announces new mobility initiatives based on Eclipse...

It was a fun day yesterday at JavaOne. We ran out of Eclipse shirts around lunch time. Jackie Yao from the World Savings Bank took away the last shirt. Unfortunately we only had XXL and Jackie was an obvious small. I hope she has a big friend. The party at...

…and check out the new Google Web Toolkit. Not only does it have some really cool AJAX-enabling technology, it ships both JDT and SWT. The embedded GWT browser is built with SWT for use during development. From an email from Bret Taylor, the PM on the project: GWT has two...

I’m planning to be at JavaOne this week, just not all week. I spent a lot of time last week visiting folks in Europe and any plans of spending the following week in San Francisco would likely result in divorce papers being served. It’s just better this way for everybody...

So last week was two conferences: JAX/ Eclipse Forum Europe in Wiesbaden, Germany. (A beautiful city, by the way.) LinuxDays.ch in Geneva, Switzerland. While at JAX, the editor of JavaMagazin, Alexander Neumann presented Eclipse with their Reader’s Choice Award for Best Open Source Project. Congratulations to the entire Eclipse team...

The second announcement we are making at JavaOne ( here is the first) is the launch of Eclipse Plugin Central (EPIC). Many of you already know EPIC; in fact it has been in existence since 2004. The new news is that the EPIC Alliance (Innoopract, Instantiations and Genuitec) has contributed...

I was interviewed twice yesterday while in Paris. One was with Olivier Rafal, a well-known French IT Journalist, and the other was a video interview by Didier Gerard who posts his interviews on TV4IT. The second one worries me a little primarily because it’s yet another opportunity to hear my...