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JavaPolis

Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 05:36 by Wayne Beaton

The Eclipse Foundation is at JavaPolis in Antwerp, Belgium this week. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to see very much of the conference outside of what we’re doing, because we’re pretty busy. We hosted a “Plug-in Bazaar” yesterday which was pretty cool. Many plug-in providers (for various products, including Eclipse) presented their wares to whomever they could attract to their table. While it went well, we did learn some lessons.

ApacheCon

Monday, December 12, 2005 - 12:07

I am spending Monday in San Diego at ApacheCon for their business track. The morning keynote titled Open Source is not a crime — yet! was by Cory Doctorow for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is an incredibly dynamic speaker but paints a very dim view of the future of software and open source due to all the legislation that is being passed around copyright and digital rights management.

Is Java a slow language?

Sunday, December 11, 2005 - 05:39 by Wayne Beaton

I had a lot of questions during the webinar that I co-delivered a few days back, and I’d really like to answer them all. I’m going to do my best.

One of the listeners asked:

A lot of non-Java-savvy people still have the perception of Java as a slow language – they feel they’re giving up performance for more morally correct concepts such as platform independance, etc… What kind of real world performance are we seeing in the RCP (and specifically SWT widgets)?

Gartner Open Source Conference

Sunday, December 11, 2005 - 05:12

I had the opportunity to attend the Gartner Open Source Summit this week in Orlando. Overall, I am glad I went and I think Gartner deserves congratulations for putting on a fine event. Zach Urlocker from MySQL has also blogged about the conference. Gartner has been criticized for being slow, even negative, on open source. The good news is that this seems to be changing.

Is it just me?

Sunday, December 11, 2005 - 04:40 by Wayne Beaton

Everytime somebody says something about the Eclipse 3.2 release train, I hear Natalie Merchant‘s voice in the back of my head singing Peace Train. Is it just me?

Deploying an RCP application on multiple platforms

Saturday, December 10, 2005 - 09:00 by Wayne Beaton

I’ve been answering a bunch of questions from the webinar Jeff and I delivered a few days back.

One listener asked:

Do I need to develop three different applications if I want a Windoze, Linux and Mac version?

Erich Gamma podcast about Eclipse

Friday, December 9, 2005 - 21:01 by Wayne Beaton

A recording Erich Gamma’s December 8th podcast is available for your listening enjoyment. As billed, the interview touches on the following points:

Building GUIs in Eclipse

Friday, December 9, 2005 - 11:05 by Wayne Beaton

Jeff and I got a lot of questions during the webinar we did last week, but we were only able to answer a few of them in the time we had available. The good people at BZ Media were nice enough to send me a file with all the questions. I’ve been spending a good chunk of my time trying to provide answers for all of them. And… I thought I’d share some of them.

One listener asked

Does Eclipse have a GUI builder that:

What is a Rich Client?

Thursday, December 8, 2005 - 09:36 by Wayne Beaton

There is a lot of talk about the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP). Jeff McAffer and I delivered a webinar on the topic a few days ago and I’m getting ready to deliver a similar talk at Javapolis in Belgium next week. One of the things that I like to include in a talk is a definition of “Rich Client”.

When to use Eclipse RCP?

Monday, December 5, 2005 - 09:44

As we start talking more and more about Eclipse RCP, I find it important to be able to describe when someone should consider using Eclipse RCP, instead of alternative technologies. If anything it starts to help people better understand the capabilities of Eclipse RCP.

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