At JavaOne, I met John Rizzo from JavaBlackBelt and he mentioned to me that they had an Eclipse RCP exam. JavaBlackBelt uses a community based approach for developing certification exams of various Java related technology. It looks like an interesting model for creating certifications. The Eclipse RCP exam is still...
Like Steve O’Grady, fishing for me has never been about just catching fish. In fact, if we do manage to catch fish, that’s just the icing on the cake. Enjoying the scenery and some good times are the primary motivations. And although the scenery where we were cannot compare with...
The European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming ( ECOOP) 2006 is being held in Nantes, France from July 3rd to 7th. Eclipse is going to be there in full force. The Eclipse Technology Exchange (eTX) Workshop will be held on July 4th. The goal of the eTX workshop is to create...
I just posted a presentation by Chris Laffra that steps through the new and noteworthy with Eclipse 3.2. You can find the presentation here. You can get Eclipse 3.2 here. And, of course, the RC3 release of Callisto is available for download and testing.
Eclipse has been very successful in developing a common platform for development tools integration. In fact, I believe one of the strengths of Eclipse is the large ecosystems of vendors, individuals and organizations that are building on top of the Eclipse platform. However, Eclipse is not unique in creating this...
Over the past few months, I’ve heard a lot of folks talk about how many ways the ten Callisto projects can be combined. In all cases, the concensus seems to be that there are 10! (ten factorial) combinations. Or at least about that many. That’s 3,628,800 combinations. Wow! Except that...
Jon Udell is a well respected blogger and analyst at InfoWorld. He does a lot of screencasts and is looking for volunteers to participate in a screencast experiment. He essentially wants to ‘look over the shoulder’ of a developer creating an application. I must admit, I boldly suggested doing a...
In the lead up to the Callisto release, we have decided to run a series of webinar s about some of the projects that are included in the Callisto release. The intention is to help educate people on what you can do with the different Eclipse projects. To get things...
Good news for Eclipse plug-in/RCP developers who need to embed Swing/AWT components in SWT views on the Mac! Thanks to the efforts of Apple’s JVM developers, the SWT_AWT bridge now works on the Mac. Bug#: 67384 is now marked as resolved (and is peppered with comments declaring victory). Now… I...
In comments to a recent blog entry of mine, beche-de-mer (which I believe translates to “sea-slug”), asked if I could post an example of using extension points in an Eclipse RCP application that uses Swing. I decided to oblige with this hastily cobbled together example. I added an extension point...