Blog Posts

In 2005, we spent a lot of time talking about Eclipse as being more than just a Java IDE. However I don’t think we did a very good job saying what Eclipse really is. EclipseCon is quickly approaching, so I would like to try to take the opportunity to start...

I had lunch the other day with Doug Pollock and John Arthorne; Doug and John are joining me in coaching the upcoming code camps that we’re running during the Eclipse in Motion tour and we met to discuss how we’re going to run the camps (both John and Doug work...

The Eclipse Wiki is a pretty cool source of information. If you’re curious about the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), there’s a section in the Wiki that discusses it and organizes a collection of links, references, books, etc… everything you need to know about RCP. It’s your basic one-stop-shopping source...

Perhaps it’s because of my recent trip to China, but it is becoming increasingly clear that internationalization is a very big deal for everyone in the software world. The ability to fully enable products and applications for double-byte and bi-directional languages is key. Enter ICU4J. One look at the JDK...

How neat-o keen, golly-gee whiz is this? Be sure to get your “Eclipse installed” sticker from your favourite Eclipse Foundation staffer. Coming soon to a conference or seminar near you. The folks attending the Eclipse in Motion seminars will be the first large-ish group to get these very exclusive stickers...

At least one reader of my entry a couple of days ago expressed concern that Eclipse 3.2 might require the use of Java 5. Well it doesn’t. No need for alarm. Apparently there are two plug-ins in the SDK that require the use of Java 5 and if Java 5...

See, there’s been some big, big things, and some are bigger than others… It seems that the desire to obtain Eclipse-branded merchandise is heating up. Bug #125649 seems to demonstrate that there’s at least some interest out there in high-quality Eclipse logoware. As I mentioned a couple of days back...

I am giving a presentation next week at the Evans Data Developer Relations conference. The intent of my presentation is to talk about the successes Eclipse has had in building a strong vibrant community. To do so, I have detail some of the ‘best practices’ that I have observed in...

It’s always nice to hear about folks who come back to Eclipse. Problems with their previous IDE combined with a very positive experience with WebTools 1.0 has brought this blogger back.

It’s February so that means its election time in the Eclipse community. Each year, the committer community and the add-in provider community vote for their representatives on the Eclipse Board of Directors. The number of elected reps is calculated using a formula based on the number of strategic members. The...