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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...

Project #6 in my series of 10 new projects joining the Galileo release train is the Eclipse Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF). Kentarou Fukuda is a committer on ACTF. What does your project do? The Eclipse Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF) project is working to provide an extensible and comprehensive framework for...

EclipseLink is project #5 in my series of projects new to the Galileo release train. For those that might not know, EclipseLink is based on the very popular TopLink product from Oracle. Doug Clarke is the EclipseLink project lead. What does your project do? EclipseLink provides high performance runtime persistence...

As we enter into the final daze of Galileo, I thought it would be appropriate to thank the people who have answered the call to be Friends of Eclipse. Close to 80 people have join the Friends of Eclipse program since we made the call on May 21. Thank you...

Java Workflow Tooling (JWT), is next up in my series on projects new to the Galileo release train. Marc Dutoo is the project co-leader. What does your project do? Java Workflow Tooling brings open business process design and development to the Eclipse platform. Business Process Management (BPM) is at the...