Examples

I blogged last week about an example application that I’ve been building. Building good examples is pretty hard: you want an example to be simple enough to understand. At the same time, it has to be real enough to useful and expose real issues. I think that this application strikes...

I’ve been spending a great deal of time working with Eclipse runtime technology recently. Specifically, I’ve been building an example application that deploys using Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), Rich Ajax Platform (RAP), and embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP). The application itself is simple enough: I like examples to be...

Over the past week or so, I’ve been discussing how you can make your objects adaptable into different forms. This is great for getting your objects to tightly integrate with existing parts of the Eclipse infrastructure, while remaining loosely coupled with the actual implementation. Loose coupling with tight integration is...

I do all of my editing of the pages on eclipse.org (including editing articles for Eclipse Corner) using Eclipse Web Tools. I personally don’t mind looking at HTML, and the HTML editor provided with Web Tools is top-notch (a lot of the content on eclipse.org is represented in XML, which...