Blog Posts

Over the past few months, I’ve heard a lot of folks talk about how many ways the ten Callisto projects can be combined. In all cases, the concensus seems to be that there are 10! (ten factorial) combinations. Or at least about that many. That’s 3,628,800 combinations. Wow! Except that...

Jon Udell is a well respected blogger and analyst at InfoWorld. He does a lot of screencasts and is looking for volunteers to participate in a screencast experiment. He essentially wants to ‘look over the shoulder’ of a developer creating an application. I must admit, I boldly suggested doing a...

In the lead up to the Callisto release, we have decided to run a series of webinar s about some of the projects that are included in the Callisto release. The intention is to help educate people on what you can do with the different Eclipse projects. To get things...

Good news for Eclipse plug-in/RCP developers who need to embed Swing/AWT components in SWT views on the Mac! Thanks to the efforts of Apple’s JVM developers, the SWT_AWT bridge now works on the Mac. Bug#: 67384 is now marked as resolved (and is peppered with comments declaring victory). Now… I...

In comments to a recent blog entry of mine, beche-de-mer (which I believe translates to “sea-slug”), asked if I could post an example of using extension points in an Eclipse RCP application that uses Swing. I decided to oblige with this hastily cobbled together example. I added an extension point...

Another first for me! How very exciting. Somebody took the time to adapt some of their advertising materials to the Eclipse Corner Articles format and posted their contents as an article submission. I’ve decided to be in awe of the … Continue reading →

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...