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I spoke this morning at Club Java in Paris. I’m on my way home from Eclipse Forum Europe and, of course, couldn’t pass up such a great opportunity to speak to a developer community (I’ve been speaking at a lot of Java User Group meetings lately). Vlad, who organized my...

With JavaOne coming up, I thought it would be appropriate to remember that Eclipse is much more than just Java. I thought it might interesting to map the Eclipse support of popular computer languages. Based on this ranking of computer languages, it looks like 15 out of the 20 languages...

We had an incredible jump in the number of student proposals for Eclipse projects in Google’s Summer of Code. On Saturday, we had 12 proposals. Today we have 77! Many of the proposals are interesting. It seems that there is a disportionate number of people who are interested in providing...

Instantiations has been a long time player in the Eclipse ecosystem with their popular WindowBuilder product. Therefore, I was thrilled when the announced their new RCP Developer product. To help educate people on Eclipse RCP, Instantiations is sponsoring a webinar with the foks at Sys-con media. If you or someone...

I just noticed after a cursory review that six of the ten nominations for the JAX Innovation Award 2006 have something to do with Eclipse. Try as I might, I can’t figure out a reasonable way to put “Swing” in the title of this…

I’ve been working on a new RCP application over these past few weeks. The effort has pushed me to look at a few areas inside Eclipse that I haven’t previously explored. I rely heavily on calendar and task management software to manage my many different roles and responsibilities. Unfortunately, all...

Next week at JavaOne will be a busy week for the Eclipse community. If you are planning to attend the conference, I hope you can drop by the Eclipse booth. We will be demoing 9 different Eclipse projects, including BIRT, TPTP, VE, MTJ, Dali, ALF, WTP, JDT and RCP. We...

An interesting new project proposal was just posted late last week called Rich Server Platform – User Interface Framework (RSP-UI). This is interesting to me, since it is another great example of the Eclipse community taking the Equinox OSGI framework and extending it into many different areas. Some other recent...

Curiously, I seem to get about twice as many hits on my blog whenever I include the word “Swing” in the title. I wonder why that is?

I’ve been using the Visual Editor to build some user interfaces for an Eclipse application that I’m building. As a distraction, I thought it might be fun to spend a few minutes cobbling together a Swing JFrame (okay, maybe “fun” isn’t the right word). Below is what it looks like...