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I recently recorded a flash demo of the creation—using annotations—of a web service for JBoss 4.2 using a pre-release of the new Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers (the work-in-progress landing page is here). You can find the demo here. Creating the web service is pretty easy. I noticed that...

Today we published an article on Eclipse Corner titled, “SWT/Swing Integration”. This is a pretty important topic that is of great interest to a lot of folks. The article was written by Gordon Hirsch, based on some real world experience with the SWT_AWT bridge component (which allows you to host...

Part of my job at the Eclipse Foundation is to work with the different industry analyst in our space. We do a lot of work with the guys at Redmonk and I have always been impressed with their knowledge of everything. Therefore, I was not surprised to see them at...

Thanks to Donald we are harvesting some pretty interesting information from our download stats. Over the last 6 months we have noticed a gradual uptake in downloads from China. I was expecting that by the end of 2007 China would surpass the USA as being the number one country. Well...

I’ve been spending far too much time wrestling with Camtasia lately (it has a frustrating habit of completely screwing up my files). I’ve been putting together a collection of screencam demonstrations to accompany the Europa release. I did spend a little effort looking into using Wink to record my demonstrations...

We are getting ready for the launch of Europa. Some of the reporters we are talking to have expressed an interest in talking to developers who are planning to use some of the projects in Europa. Most of the ‘interviews’ will be done via e-mail. If you are interest in...

In the process of collecting stats for the Europa release I was referred to a really cool web site called Ohloh.net. It essentially collects stats on open source projects. Most of the 21 projects in Europa, last count 16 of the 21, are listed on Ohloh so I built a...

Via this blog, it is nice to see the local Eclipse community in Poland putting on an Eclipse Summer School. I am noticing more and more of these type of locally run Eclipse events. Nice to see.

I spent the last (you might say ‘better’) part of my day yesterday hanging out with some of my old friends at Oracle, trying to help them get their new Eclipse project up and running. The Eclipse Persistence Services project, which is affectionately known as “EclipseLink” is inheriting some awesome...

This is just a very cool announcement. IBM has contributed their STEM technology to the Eclipse OHF project. STEM has been developed on top of Eclipse and helps model the spread of infectious diseases. Granted not everyone needs to track infectious diseases but a goal of contributing it to open...