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    RIA tools at Eclipse

    by Anonymous

    The really cool thing about Eclipse is that it is a platform for many things. Take RIA tools, it seems a lot of the RIA solutions are basing their tools on Eclipse. For instance, Nexaweb just joined the Eclipse Foundation and based their Nexaweb Studio on Eclipse. Macromedia has already...

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    Eclipse Meetings

    by Mike Milinkovich

    Every once in a while we try out something new and it really works well. Some months back I realized that Bjorn booked the Council meetings the same week as the Board meeting. It’s hard for me to be in two places at once. The solution? Co-locate the two meetings...

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    JavaPolis

    by Wayne Beaton

    The Eclipse Foundation is at JavaPolis in Antwerp, Belgium this week. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to see very much of the conference outside of what we’re doing, because we’re pretty busy. We hosted a “Plug-in Bazaar” yesterday which was pretty cool. Many plug-in providers (for various products, including Eclipse)...

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    ApacheCon

    by Anonymous

    I am spending Monday in San Diego at ApacheCon for their business track. The morning keynote titled Open Source is not a crime — yet! was by Cory Doctorow for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is an incredibly dynamic speaker but paints a very dim view of the future of...

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    Is Java a slow language?

    by Wayne Beaton

    I had a lot of questions during the webinar that I co-delivered a few days back, and I’d really like to answer them all. I’m going to do my best. One of the listeners asked: A lot of non-Java-savvy people still have the perception of Java as a slow language...

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    Gartner Open Source Conference

    by Anonymous

    I had the opportunity to attend the Gartner Open Source Summit this week in Orlando. Overall, I am glad I went and I think Gartner deserves congratulations for putting on a fine event. Zach Urlocker from MySQL has also blogged about the conference. Gartner has been criticized for being slow...

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    Is it just me?

    by Wayne Beaton

    Everytime somebody says something about the Eclipse 3.2 release train, I hear Natalie Merchant‘s voice in the back of my head singing Peace Train. Is it just me?

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    Deploying an RCP application on multiple platforms

    by Wayne Beaton

    I’ve been answering a bunch of questions from the webinar Jeff and I delivered a few days back. One listener asked: Do I need to develop three different applications if I want a Windoze, Linux and Mac version? No. You can use exactly the same code base on all three...

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    Erich Gamma podcast about Eclipse

    by Wayne Beaton

    A recording Erich Gamma’s December 8th podcast is available for your listening enjoyment. As billed, the interview touches on the following points: Learn how to balance cost reduction against its impact on customer loyalty. What was IBM’s motivation in initially launching the Eclipse project? Where will Eclipse go from here...

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    Building GUIs in Eclipse

    by Wayne Beaton

    Jeff and I got a lot of questions during the webinar we did last week, but we were only able to answer a few of them in the time we had available. The good people at BZ Media were nice enough to send me a file with all the questions...

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