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For all you Eclipse enthusiats going to JavaOne, we are organizing a party on Wednesday, May 17, from 7-10pm at the Thirsty Bear brew pub. The Thirsty Bear was the location of the very first Eclipse event at JavaOne 2002, so we thought it was appropriate to return. The also...

We are organizing another webinar with the folks at BZ Media. This time the topic will be ‘ Creating Eclipse Plug-ins‘ and will be held May 23 at 1:00pmET. Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel, authors of the popular book ‘ Eclipse: Building Commerical-Quality Plug-ins‘ will be leading the session. If...

The Eclipse Foundation will have a booth at JavaOne, so I have a number of 1 day passes to the exhibit hall. If you want one of these passes, send me an e-mail (ian at eclipse dot org) and I will send you the secret code to register. fyi, I...

No, that’s not the name of a new committer Project Antoine is a really interesting idea. UBC is running Project Antoine to collect information on how people are actually using Webtools. The information will be used to improve usability. If you’re an Eclipse WTP user, please help out by installing...

So John Graham is asking a question that I have seen repeated in various forms many times before. In a nutshell, should Eclipse projects focus on (a) building a well-architected platform or (b) building great tools for end-users to pick up and use “as is”? Believe it or not, I...

On Saturday morning I had a chance to both attend and speak at the first BarCamp Ottawa. For anyone who’s ever wondered if these BarCamp “unconferences” really work, the answer is a most emphatic yes. The talks I went to were great. And at what other event could you attend...

Cliff Liang has translated the Eclipse Corner Article “ A Shape Diagram Editor” into Chinese. We need somebody to review the translation. If you’re interested, please add your comments to bug # 138106.

I’ve added an RSS feed for articles to the Eclipse Corner website. You can access the feed here. It contains the title, description, and a link to articles changed in the last six months. Add your comments to Bug#: 137751 if you’d like to change anything about it. For example...

One of the most interesting new products being built on top of the Eclipse RCP is the new version of IBM’s Lotus Notes client. Dubbed the “Hannover” release, it is a complete significant re-write of the Notes UI on top of RCP. (Or more accurately on top of Workplace Client...

Cleaning up your code gets easier with Eclipse 3.2. Select a Java element. Any element. It works on classes, packages, and projects (intuitively, the element selected determines the scope of the clean up). Select “Source > Clean Up…” from the context menu. Here’s what you’ll see. You’re presented with a...