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Nice to see a new book about BIRT just got released. Congrats to John Ward the book author.

David Kyle from Kelman Technologies has posted on Eclipse Zone a great case study about the work he is doing with Eclipse RCP to solve some challenging problems in the oil and gas industry. It is well worth the read. I wished more people would showcase their Eclipse work. This...

Le projet Babel avance à grands pas ! Avant-hier, gros boost du côté du nombre de traductions disponibles, puisque Denis Roy a fait tourner un script qui a permis de réimporter l’ensemble des traductions déjà effectuées par IBM pour la version 3.2 d’Eclipse. Au total, cela fait plus de 20.000...

We have announced the finalists of the Eclipse Community Awards. Congratulations to everyone. The winners will be announced Monday evening at EclipseCon. Individual Finalists Top Ambassador: Jeff McAffer and Ed Merks Top Committer: Chris Aniszczyk, Mik Kersten and Paul Webster Top Contributor: Jacek Pospychala and Remy Chi Jian Suen Top...

Le 21 février sortait la version 1.0 du framework Higgins. Longtemps attendue (la revue de création du projet –qui s’appelait alors ETF, Eclipse Trust Framework– a été faite en… avril 2005 !), cette plateforme de gestion de l’identité numérique voit donc enfin le jour ! L’objectif d’Higgins est de faciliter...

Mathew Aslett from 451 Group and Tim Bowden are making the case that selecting an open source license influences the commercial success of an open source proejct. From Tim’s blog: ‘When it comes to takeovers and valuations, I think the role of GPL as a strategic weapon is often under...

At Eclipse, we have a healthy collection of open source projects that span the entire software lifecycle, including modeling, test, development and even process methodologies. The one area where no one seemed interested in starting an open source project was requirements management. I was never sure why not but this...

Last night I was looking at the registration data for EclipseCon. Eclipse is a great global community, so I was really pleased to see individuals coming to EclipseCon from 37 different countries, including: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Crotia, Czeck Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India...

For those that like to live on the bleeding edge, the Ganymede M5 packages are now available for download. We would appreciate people downloading these and providing feedback. Two notable new and noteworthy items: Two new packages are now available, a package for ‘Software Architects and Modeling’ and a package...

EclipseCon is just 3 weeks away, so it is time to organize the annual EclipseCon Blogger Party. In previous years, we have had the party on Sunday evening in Hyatt lobby bar. So if you are a blogger and are interested in attending, send me an e-mail or better yet...