Open Source

Sometime later today some very exciting new code is going to show up in the e4 git repository at Eclipse. “ Orion” is a brand new adventure for Eclipse, and one which we hope will interest and excite a whole new community: web developers. Orion is not a set of...

Today Google announced that they will be contributing two key pieces of Java tooling technology to proposed Eclipse Foundation projects. Two new projects are bringing to Eclipse product-quality code which have been highly regarded by Java developers for many years. They will fill major requirements that the Eclipse developer community...

My goodness, this past week has seen a flurry of despair around Java and the JCP. Most of it misguided, in my humble opinion. Matt Asay’s article does a good job of capturing all of the angst in one spot. If you haven’t read it, I recommend that you do...

Yesterday I described the reasons why I think the Eclipse Foundation should vote in favour of the Java 7 JSR when it is proposed. We are no where near as positive about the Java 8 JSR. The reason is modularity. We are just not comfortable that the direction of the...

Stephen Colebourne correctly pointed out in his blog this morning that when the Java 7 JSR is proposed to the JCP Executive Committee, that the Eclipse Foundation will vote “yes”. I think that it would be helpful to explain why that is the case. First, some history. The Eclipse Foundation...

If you are a Java developer, Christmas came early this year. Today Google announced that they are making many of the key assets that they acquired from Instantiations. Specifically, GWT Designer, CodePro AnalytiX, WindowBuilder Pro and WindowTester Pro are now all available for free from Google. Many thanks to Google...

We are announcing today the creation of the Application Lifecycle Tools Top-Level Project, which will retain the well-known Mylyn nickname. From the charter: “ Mylyn is an open source collaborative software development project dedicated to providing an extensible, standards-based platform to address a broad range of needs of accessing task...

Back in December, I discussed a number of initiatives that the Eclipse Foundation was going to be working on in 2010. The one that attracted the most feedback was “Eclipse Labs”. Well, we are very happy to announce that thanks to Google, this idea has become a reality. Better yet...

A while ago, we received a request to take a look at an open letter on the compatibility of the Eclipse Public License ( EPL) and the GNU General Public License ( GPL). This led to a number of conversations with the Free Software Foundation ( FSF) on the topic...

It’s not too surprising that the Eclipse Foundation thinks that the Eclipse Public License is a darn fine open source license. It is arguably the most commercially-friendly of the copyleft licenses, and one which is particularly well suited for fostering a community building a software platform. So in June of...