Open Source

Open Forum

Monday, July 4, 2011 - 02:30 by Mike Milinkovich
I just got home from Germany after a whirlwind trip to join the Eclipse Democamps in Hamburg and Berlin . And now it’s time to head back already. Next week is the Open Forum in Stuttgart, and I have the great honour of joining an all star cast of keynotes...

Hudson Now At Eclipse

Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - 11:00 by Mike Milinkovich
Today’s announcement that Oracle is proposing to move the Hudson project to the Eclipse Foundation is big news. It’s news because of the popularity of the project, its history and, let’s face it, the Hudson/Jenkins fork that happened a few months back. One of the key issues that split the...

OpenJDK Governance

Saturday, January 29, 2011 - 16:30 by Mike Milinkovich
On Friday, Mark Reinhold , mentioned that I have recently spent some time helping to help flesh out a draft governance model for the OpenJDK community . As John Duimovich described it, our goal is for OpenJDK to be “…an open, transparent, and meritocratic project that can be run in...

Introducing Orion

Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 08:00 by Mike Milinkovich
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...

Java 8 Vote

Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 17:16 by Mike Milinkovich
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...

Java 7 Vote

Wednesday, October 13, 2010 - 15:39 by Mike Milinkovich
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...

A Good Day for Java Development

Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 22:24 by Mike Milinkovich
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...

Introducing a New and Improved Mylyn

Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 12:30 by Mike Milinkovich
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...