Blog Posts

Authors have been very busy this month. Yesterday, Frederic Plante’s article, “ Introducing the GMF Runtime” was added to the Eclipse Corner Articles site. Oddly enough, in this article Frederic introduces the GMF runtime. A lot of folks have been waiting for GMF to make their lives easier (during his...

Earlier today, I posted an article on Eclipse Forms by Dejan Glozic onto the Eclipse Corner Articles site. It’s pretty powerful stuff; using the Forms API, you can build user interface components that look and feel “browser-like”. As the article suggests, forms are probably best suited for views and editors...

I am helping to organize an EclipseCon panel called ‘ Enterprise Ready: Deploying Eclipse in a large enterprise‘. This panel is part of the business track and the focus is on the management and technical aspects of deploying Eclipse into a large enterprise. If you know of someone that would...

As already referenced by Bjorn and Ward, this article by John Mark Walters makes for some very interesting reading. I highly recommend it, and I am already looking forward to reading the next one in his series. The article has some interesting implications for Eclipse. I would venture to say...

I have created a web site that shows the current list of nominations for the Eclipse Technology Awards. There is still lots of time to nominate your product. Deadline for nominations is January 27, 2006.

In the most recent JBoss newsletter they published the result of a poll they did of their user based, asking what is your favourite IDE. Eclipse comes in at 58% and if you combine MyEclipse it pushes the total to 67%. This reaffirms the trend I have noticed in surveys...

Congratulations to the Eclipse community for winning the ‘Development Tool of the Year’ award from Developer.com.

I reviewed the nominations for the Eclipse Awards today and there seems to be only moderate activity. In fact, I only see eight nominations for top contributor. There’s a lot more contributors out there than that. Nominating somebody is easy: it’s just a bugzilla entry and there’s handy links to...

Kind of cool to see Sun publishing an Eclipse plug-in for GlassFish. Nice to also see them hooking into the new Web Tools 1.0 release and the Dali project. btw, I was pointed to the plug-in from this blog.

David Berlind is organizing a Mashup Camp and seems to be getting a lot of interest. David indicated to me that some people are interested in talking about IDE’s for building mashups. A project I would love to see started at Eclipse is one that focuses on frameworks and tools...