Blog Posts

    Eclipse Review

    Friday, January 27, 2006 - 04:06 by Anonymous (not verified)
    Alan Zeichick, editor-in-chief of SD Times and BZ Media, did us the honour of visiting us in frigid Ottawa. Alan and the gang at BZ Media are preparing the launch of the Eclipse Review magazine. The first edition is set for EclispeCon. Alan was kind enough to share with us...

    Brand Hijacked

    Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 15:07 by Mike Milinkovich
    I’ve been noticing an interesting trend in the worldwide ecosystem growth of Eclipse. No longer content with just focusing on software and developer tools, the Eclipse community has begun to branch out into new areas. Among them: UK-based courier services and Canary Island real estate. As evidence, take a look...

    Eclipse in Motion: A four city tour

    Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 12:44 by Wayne Beaton
    I’m gearing up fo the Eclipse in Motion seminar series. I’m running the afternoon technical session with assistance from some very experienced Eclipse developers. The format of the technical session will be very loose. I’m not planning to deliver very much slideware, but rather will be soliciting input from the...

    Discouraged Access

    Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 12:16 by Wayne Beaton
    I recently got this question from a developer building Eclipse plug-ins: What should I do about classes with discouraged access? For example IAntUIConstants is “internal”. To start with, if you haven’t encountered this yourself already, here’s what it looks like in the Java editor when a class in your plug-in...

    New Eclipse BIRT 2.0

    Monday, January 23, 2006 - 03:39 by Anonymous (not verified)
    Congratulations to the BIRT team for their new 2.0 release. We just issued a press release to highlight this fact, so I hope to see some good coverage for BIRT this week. You can also check out the new and noteworthy here. Two things that really sitck out for me...

    RCP for server applications

    Friday, January 20, 2006 - 05:20 by Anonymous (not verified)
    Wolfgang Gehner from Infonoia has posted an interesting article about using RCP/Equinox for server side applications. There are also discussion threads about the article on EclipseZone and The ServerSide. There seems to be a lot of innovation developing around RCP and Equinox. This is a great example and it will...

    Oracle and Eclipse

    Friday, January 20, 2006 - 03:19 by Anonymous (not verified)
    Last week, Sun and Oracle made a big partnership announcement. Part of the announcement contained a reference to Oracle and NetBeans; but no specifics. Oracle is a great supporter of Eclipse, leading 3 projects, so this announcement got my attention. Therefore, I was happy to see Omar Tazi reference an...