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Got a PHB who needs to know–in non-technical terms–why you should be adopting RCP? Jeff has made the forward from the Eclipse Rich Client Platform book available. In it, Jeff Norris from NASA explains how his organization benefitted from RCP. It’s available here (in PDF format). And by-the-way… I use...

In this new Eclipse Corner Article, Teach Your Eclipse to Speak the Local Lingo, author Kit Lo describes how you can locate, download, and use language packs to localize Eclipse into your favourite language. Here, for example, is Eclipse 3.1.1 in Russian: And, here it is in Arabic (Egypt): Note...

The great thing about the Eclipse community is that it is truly a global community. Taking a look at the countries that will be represented at EclipseCon, you start to get that feeling. In total, close to 45 different countries will be reprsented. Of course a large percentage are coming...

I’d like to organize a blogging party at EclipseCon. I think it would be cool to meet in person all the different Eclipse bloggers. We could even talk about who is going to blog at EclipseCon and what sessions are going to get covered. If you are up for it...

I just got a stack of evaluations from a conference I spoke at last year. I delivered three separate talks at this conference, so the stack is pretty tall. Most of the evaluations are good, containing comments like “All presenters should be this good”, “Superb as usual”, and “Very good...

I am starting to write a press release to announce some project initiatives around RCP. I want to include a short, crisp description of what is RCP. The cool thing about the Eclipse community is that Kim has already started to create a version. I took some of Kim’s ideas...

Ward and I have been talking about mashups a lot lately. We both think that Eclipse RCP is a great vehicle for building mashups on the desktop (we don’t think that mashups should be exclusive to the web). I’ve managed to invoke a few web services and do some interesting...

We are in the final 3 weeks of EclipseCon registration. As of last week we had over 900 people registered. This year on Monday, we have 36 tutorials covering a wide variety of topics being offered. I thought it would be interesting to share with you the number of people...

How about this… Start typing the name of a method (where a method should go). Don’t worry about the return type or anything else, just the name. Hit ctrl-space. Eclipse will offer to build a new private method with that name. Type “main” and hit ctrl-space and it will build...

Eclipse is great for lazy folks like me. By typing just a few keystrokes and hitting “ctrl-space”, Eclipse will generate a lot of code for you. For example, if you open a Java editor, move your cursor to a blank line and type “sysout”, it will expand what you’ve typed...