Blog Posts

Vous aviez peut-être pu remarquer qu’un concours avait été lancé il y a quelques semaines par Nick Boldt pour que les membres de la communauté Eclipse réalisent des posters pour la sortie de Ganymede. La soumission de posters est désormais terminée : vous pouvez les voir ici, et voter pour...

Matt Assay recently covered the Accenture / SpringSource announcement about Spring Batch. Matt is absolutely correct in pointing out that the real news is that Accenture is actively and publically helping to support SpringSource in the project. This is really great news and I hope to see more. However, the...

Kirk Knoernschild from Burton Group has published the results to an informal survey he fielded on OSGi usage. I don’t think Kirk or anyone would claim this is a statistically significant survey or the sample was unbiased but I do think it raises some interesting results. The majority of people...

Occasionally we get questions along these lines on the newsgroups: Does anybody know how X is coded in Eclipse? The simple answer is yes. Everybody can know how it’s coded. The source code is out there for all to see. You have a couple of choices when it comes to...

Ganymede RC4 packages are hot off the press and available for download. btw, do you want to be at the front of the line to download the final Ganymede release? Denis is going to allow Friends of Eclipse early access to the Ganymede download server while the mirrors are synchronizing...

Freescale has announced they are moving their CodeWarrior tools to Eclipse. It is great news to have Freescale actively participating in the Eclipse community and specifically on the DSDP project. Eclipse is definitely the common development platform for tools in the embedded industry.

Earlier this week, while helping James prepare some words to include in this week’s EclipseZone newsletter on the Usage Data Collector (UDC), a thought occurred to me (which I included in the text): the information gathered by the UDC should help in testing. Think about the magnitude of the testing...

Les sessions de DemoCamps approchent à grand pas, et la déclinaison française se déroulera cette année à Toulouse ! “Ah super, mais un DemoCamp c’est quoi ?!?” me direz-vous… Et bien c’est un évènement, plutôt informel, permettant à chacun de présenter des projets basés sur Eclipse, d’échanger ses idées, ses...

Continuing from yesterday’s post on the Usage Data Collector, I thought we should also describe how we plan to use the UDC data. In the official, lawyer-approved Terms of Use, we have stipulated the following: The Eclipse Foundation may, in its sole discretion, make available to organizations and individuals, on...

The Ganymede release is less than three weeks away, so it is time to crank up the Ganymede hype marketing machine. As usual, we are trying a mix of community outreach, press and analyst outreach and promotion of the specific projects. Here are some of the key things: 1. We...