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Today is the last day for the Galileo Blog-a-thon. So far we have 114 blogs posts about Galileo! Thanks for everyone that participated and wrote reviews about the Galileo projects. The response has been tremendous. If you want to find out what is hot [and not hot] in Galileo, I...

The e4 team has published the first release of the e4 project. This is an early alpha release that allows the Eclipse community to start experimenting and exploring the e4 technology. To help you better understand what is possible with e4, we are running a series of e4 webinars on...

There is a generally not-known feature in the Eclipse Help which allows to configure the scope of searches. By default, whenever you perform a query, the search scope is restricted to your local help repository (i.e. Javadocs, API references, user guides contributed by plug-ins). However, it is possible to add...

I’ve been working for quite a while on finding solutions to the problems we are having in PDE as soon as we need to add support for new OSGi headers, to create new editors for cheatsheet files, p2 categories, etc. Declarative Services tooling is a good illustration of all these...

Sometime yesterday we surpassed the 1 million download request mark for Galileo packages. It took us just 27 days to hit that mark and this number doesn’t even include the bitTorrents or the member distros. The Galileo launch activities have also been very popular and successful: – 29 DemoCamps were...

OSGI R4.2 (thus Equinox 3.5) comes (well, will come, since the spec. is not final yet) with a new simple and handy utility: the org.osgi.framework.FrameworkUtil.getBundle(Class) static method, which allows to retrieve the bundle a given class belongs to. More specifically, this method will give you the bundle who loaded the...

After about 3 years of activity in the Eclipse community, and about 2 years of –not always…– regular blogging in French, I’m finally ready to join Planet Eclipse and start sharing with the community! I’m interested in many topics, thus expect posts about PDE, OSGi, Modeling (EMF, xText, …), Continuous...

Riena is number 8 in my series of project that are new to the release train. Christian Campo is the Riena project leader. What does your project do? Riena is a platform for developing multi-tier rich client applications based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) and Equinox. Core to...

Project #7 is my ongoing series of new projects on the release train is Swordfish. Oliver Wolf is the project leader of Swordfish and he was kind enough to participate in the series. What does your project do? The goal of the Swordfish project is to provide an extensible SOA...

It has been a busy morning today on twitter. Lots of people tweeting about Galileo and less important things like Meagan Fox and Transformers (people it is just a hollywood movie, Galileo is real ) To follow-up on the Give a Tweet about Galileo contest, I am pleased to announce...