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Nice to see Sprint’s next generation platform embracing Eclipse and OSGi. From the Titan web site: Titan is a next generation Java platform for Sprint Windows Mobile devices. In addition to supporting existing MIDP Java ME applications, it includes the more capable CDC/Foundation Java Virtual Machine and OSGi framework. This...

Once again a Sun open source project is having a revolt in their community. Last December, Sun was accused of playing hardball with an ex-employee over the governance structure of OpenDS. Now it seems the OpenSolaris community is in turmoil due to Sun’s decision over the use of the OpenSolaris...

Today we issued a press release announcing the 1.0 release of Eclipse Higgins. You can download the brand spanking new release from the project download site. Higgins is one of those Eclipse projects that has been quietly building a community but outside the core Eclipse community, ie. the identity management...

Today, we are launching a new series of Eclipse RCP training classes. Thanks to the participation of 8 Eclipse member companies, you can now attend a 4-day RCP course in one of 19 cities around the world. Last Fall, we ran a similar series of classes and the response was...

The deadline to vote in the Eclipse Community Awards is this Thursday, Feb. 21 at 5pmET. Vote now for the individuals you believe deserve to be recognized as one of the leaders in our community. btw, one of the races is a virtual tie, so every vote counts. It takes...

Kudos to the Eclipse PDE UI Team (and more specifically to Chris Aniszczyk) for their incredible work on a long-awaited feature in PDE : “type safety” for ID references! So, what is it all about ? Imagine you want to contribute to the org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions extension point, in order to plug...

Jeffrey Hammond from Forrester Research has just released a new report on IDE Usage. For those people that are Forrester clients, it is an interesting read. You can also purchase the report but it is $995. Eclipse continues to be one of the primary IDEs and is dominate with Java...

Lots of people know about IBM’s commitment to Eclipse but the awareness is typically of IBM Rational developer tools. What I find intriguing is the rising prominence of Eclipse in the Lotus division. It is pretty clear to me that IBM Lotus is executing on a platform strategy that spans...

Je relaie ici une information donnée par Gorkem Ercan (ingénieur chez Nokia, et leader du projet eRCP) sur son blog. A l’occasion du Mobile World Congress, Nokia a annoncé la sortie de deux nouveaux téléphones, le N78 et le N96, qui, en plus des nombreuses fonctionnalités disponibles en standard (GPS...

Eclipse 3.4M5 vient de sortir. Au programme de cette nouvelle version intermédiaire, et en synthèse : Platforme / SWT Checkboxes à trois états : ça m’aurait bien servi il y a quelque mois pour gérer élégamment un “Oui—Non—Ne sait pas”… Possibilité d’ imprimer directement un contrôle (dans le GC de...