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So the big news in RCP-land this week is coming from Lotusphere, where there is much talk about Eclipse-based rich clients. Check out this screenshot gallery of the next version of Lotus Notes based on Eclipse RCP. This is an awesome demonstration of the ability of RCP to enable compelling...

I have some very good news for new projects at Eclipse. At the board meeting last week, an important revision to the Eclipse Intellectual Property Policy was approved. Under the new revision, projects which are in incubation — and which are clearly marking their webpages and downloads as such —...

I just stumbled across the news that the GCJ team is now using the Eclipse Compiler for Java as the front end to GCJ. This is pretty darn cool. ECJ is a rock-solid and highly regarded technology. I’m glad to see it getting even more adoption. It has been used...

This is rather cool. As noted by Nat Torkington, Dave Thomas has just been recognized by the ACM as a Distinguished Engineer. Dave was the founder of OTI, which after it was acquired by IBM eventually became the core development team for Eclipse. Other than my family, he’s probably had...

As has already been reported by eWeek, InfoWorld and Linux Watch the Eclipse Foundation is going through the process of joining three different standards organizations: the Java Community Process ( JCP), the Object Management Group ( OMG) and the OSGi Alliance. I guess that we should be flattered that Eclipse...

So one last (and somewhat belated) post related to the Eclipse 5th birthday celebrations. As many of you may already know, over the past month or so we tracked down the 65 or so people who were the original founders of both the Eclipse Project and the Eclipse Consortium and...

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I have no idea why, but this question has come up in several different emails to the “license at eclipse.org” mail id this week. Maybe it’s because of Sun’s recent announcement that it was releasing Java under the GPL. The question has been asked...

So congratulations are clearly in order for Simon Phipps, one of my favourite sparring partners. I’m sure that when he started at Sun to open source Java he had no idea what a long and winding road it would be. I definitely applaud his perseverance. This was certainly a bold...

The party at the “P” last night was good fun. In all the years (almost 30) that I’ve been going to the Prescott, I never knew they had a party room upstairs. We’re going to have to find an excuse to use that again. Here are a few more articles...

So five years ago today was when the download servers were turned on in the basement of the IBM OTI Labs on Queensview Drive in Ottawa. It’s been one heck of a ride. I don’t think that anyone could have predicted the success that Eclipse has enjoyed. Thanks go to...