Blog Posts

Yesterday, I submitted my position paper for the Rich Client Applications Symposium at Eclipse Summit Europe. My position is basically that Eclipse Rich Client is good, components a la Equinox are king, and that folks should be building domain specific extensible platforms using Eclipse Rich Client technology. To be completely...

I needed a good calendar widget, so I took a look around. There are quite a few calendar widgets out there for Eclipse, but none of them did quite what I wanted. I looked at modifying one to better suit my requirements, but it turned out to be a lot...

I’m finishing up the materials for the Callisto Bootcamp that I’m running at Eclipse World. I thought it might be a good idea to do a little expectation management for those of you who are planning to attend. Here’s the description as found on the conference program: The Callisto launch...

Yesterday, I introduced International Components for Unicode for Java (ICU4J) by describing how you can get rid of it. I feel pretty about about that, because ICU4J provides goodness that’s too important to simply dismiss. If you’re building applications for an international audience, you have to get this stuff right...

As noted in the Eclipse Wiki, ICU4J was adopted by Eclipse 3.2. ICU4J provides “more comprehensive support for Unicode, software globalization, and internationalization” than the standard java.text libraries, but comes at a cost. ~3MB to be inexact. The functionality provided by ICU4J is great to have… if you need it...

There has been a flurry of articles and blogging today regarding the process by which Sun will release Java into open source. I believe that this is a topic of specific interest to the Eclipse community, given our basis in open source and extensive use of Java. Apparently yesterday Sun...

My lovely and much younger sister works as a paralegal in a Dallas law office when she’s not running triathalons. So one day last week I guess she was bored and typed our not-very-common surname into the US PTO database and found this piece of hilarity. I genuinely had no...

The plans are starting to come together for our tailgate party at Eclipse World. The party will be on Sept. 6, starting at 8:00pm. Besides the food and drink, we also hope to encourage people to network with other Eclipse users and Eclipse technical community leaders. We also plan to...

There seems to be a flury of examples of Eclipse Equinox and OSGi being used in different applications. For example, the post on EclipseZone about IBM Websphere 6.1 using Equinox, zx post of Apache Tuscany and a really informative post from murphee’s rant. So I thought I would take this...

I just reviewed the programme for the iX conference that’s coming up in November 2006. There’s a lot of Eclipse activity at the conference, including: Kai Tödter is holding a tutorial on Eclipse Rich Client Platform Richard Schwaninger is presenting Milchkuh Eclipse (Migrating Legacy Applications to Eclipse) Kevin Parker is...