Benjamin Cabé's blog

Ahem. Long time no talk on this blog… sorry about that I have been spending the last few months working on the definition of what would be the requirement of an Open Source M2M development environment, which has led to the Koneki project proposal. You may have not seen the...

I’ve just uploaded the slides of the two talks I gave at Eclipse Summit Europe last week on SlideShare. Feel free to contact me if you have questions! I enjoyed the event a lot (cool talks, cool food, cool people), and I already can’t wait for EclipseCon 2010! Use Eclipse...

There is a generally not-known feature in the Eclipse Help which allows to configure the scope of searches. By default, whenever you perform a query, the search scope is restricted to your local help repository (i.e. Javadocs, API references, user guides contributed by plug-ins). However, it is possible to add...

I’ve been working for quite a while on finding solutions to the problems we are having in PDE as soon as we need to add support for new OSGi headers, to create new editors for cheatsheet files, p2 categories, etc. Declarative Services tooling is a good illustration of all these...

OSGI R4.2 (thus Equinox 3.5) comes (well, will come, since the spec. is not final yet) with a new simple and handy utility: the org.osgi.framework.FrameworkUtil.getBundle(Class) static method, which allows to retrieve the bundle a given class belongs to. More specifically, this method will give you the bundle who loaded the...

After about 3 years of activity in the Eclipse community, and about 2 years of –not always…– regular blogging in French, I’m finally ready to join Planet Eclipse and start sharing with the community! I’m interested in many topics, thus expect posts about PDE, OSGi, Modeling (EMF, xText, …), Continuous...

I just found this useful link which gathers ALL the Eclipse Ganymede icons, in one and easy to browse place. It also provides OpenOffice icons (needless to say they are way less cool! ). Also, for everyone looking for a way to automatically retrieve all these icons, the following script...

La quatrième édition d’ EclipseTime se tiendra les 23 et 24 juin 2009 à Toulouse. Cette année, vous aurez en quelque sorte droit à trois évènements en un puisque la conférence se voit divisée en deux journées (au lieu d’une seule les années précédentes), et que la soirée du 23...

A noter dans vos agendas ! Le 19 mars, à 16h30, je co-animerai avec Vincent Ducrohet de la société Ingres, un webinar destiné à présenter Eclipse (tant l’atelier de développement que la plateforme), le SGBD Open Source Ingres, et les utilisations qui peuvent être faites de ces deux technologies. Un...

La première version, déjà prometteuse, d’Eclipse 4 a été livrée hier. Au programme, une démo mettant en œuvre les grands principes retenus dans le cadre de cette refonte architecturale qu’est e4, à savoir : Le “workbench” de cette démo modélisé de A à Z : les vues, les menus, les...