Blog Posts

    A couple of new Eclipse articles

    by Wayne Beaton

    We just posted a great new tutorial titled “ Building Project Facets” by Konstantin Komissarchik of BEA Systems on Eclipse Corner. If you want to know what facets are, and how you can use them to extend the capabilities of the Web Tools Platform, this tutorial will set you straight...

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    Symposia at Eclipse Summit Europe

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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    Yet another calendar widget

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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    Ten Projects. One Day. Am I completely nuts?

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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    What’s so great about ICU4J?

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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    ICU4J

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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    My Prediction Still Stands

    by Mike Milinkovich

    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...

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    The Sins of My Youth

    by Mike Milinkovich

    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...

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    Eclipse World Tailgate Party

    by Anonymous

    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...

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    More Usage of Eclipse Equinox and OSGi

    by Anonymous

    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...

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