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A while back, with relatively little fanfare, Sybase contributed a graphical page designer to the Web Tools project. Strictly speaking it’s not WYSIWYG, but it is WYSIPDCTWYG (What you see is pretty darned close to what you get). It provides visual assembly of HTML/JSP/JSF elements from a palette, and includes...

I made a passing reference a few days back to Mylar. In that posting, I suggested that Mylar would change your life. Mik Kersten, project lead for Mylar, has published a paper that will tell you more.

Eclipse Summit Europe has started. The event is sold out and the capacity crowd seems to be enjoying the day. We started with a riveting keynote address by our fearless leader Mike before launching into the multiple tracks of talks. I attended the talks on Aperi and Buckminster in the...

We are getting ready to celebrate Eclipse’s 5th birthday. I am curious what people think are the important events in the history of Eclipse. Maybe a key release, important article or white paper, conference, what else? Considering, I am a relative newcomer to the Eclipse community, it would be great...

HP announced today a new version of HP C/C++ Remote Developer plug-in for Eclipse 3.2. This plug-in, which builds on the CDT, allows you to edit C/C++ code using Eclipse on a Windows or Linux machine while providing you with the ability to compile, run, and debug that code on...

Personally, I think Canada is a great country (I am a little biased). And in this great country, there are many wonderful cities: Victoria (British Columbia), IMHO, is the best. Curiously enough, I spent some of the best years of my life there. For the uninitiated, Victoria is a garden...

I’ve been spending a lot of my time lately talking with organizations who are building Eclipse applications. Some are building IDEs based on Eclipse technology, others are building their end-user applications using Eclipse RCP. The main focus of these discussions is to try and figure out what sort of help...

Believe it or not we are coming up to 5 years since Eclipse was first made available as an open source project. It was November 7, 2001, when IBM made available for download the Eclipse project. Lots has happen since and I think this birthday is a cause for celebration...

There is really a lot of cool things that are being developed on Eclipse RCP. Case in point, Josh Reed sent me an e-mail about his RCP based application called PSICAT, graphical editing software for stratigraphic columns and visual core description diagrams. Basically, this is what geologists use to describe...

I’m not all that happy with the term “plug-in”. Wikipedia defines the term as follows: A plugin (or plug-in) is a computer program that interacts with a main application (a web browser or an email program, for example) to provide a certain, usually very specific, function. A little further down...