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Eclipse Developer’s Journal has published an article from Todd Williams titled “ Eclipse: A Solid Desktop, Rich-Client, or Embedded Application Framework“. It provides a good overview of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform ( RCP). If you’re thinking about building a rich client application, it’s definitely worth reading. I’ve updated the...

This is rather cool. As noted by Nat Torkington, Dave Thomas has just been recognized by the ACM as a Distinguished Engineer. Dave was the founder of OTI, which after it was acquired by IBM eventually became the core development team for Eclipse. Other than my family, he’s probably had...

As has already been reported by eWeek, InfoWorld and Linux Watch the Eclipse Foundation is going through the process of joining three different standards organizations: the Java Community Process ( JCP), the Object Management Group ( OMG) and the OSGi Alliance. I guess that we should be flattered that Eclipse...

Ahti has done a very nice summary of the current nominations for the Eclipse Community Awards Individual awards. However, don’t forget you can also recognize your favourite Eclipse based product. Nominations are trickling in, last year 80% came in the last week, but we need a lot more. Feel free...

EclipseCon is my favourite show of the year. And that’s not just because I’m an employee of the Eclipse Foundation. Honestly. I’ve put together a recommended track; I’m not sure if I’ve done it in the right spirit, since I’ve just made a listing of the talks that I’m planning...

A new year means we need to order new Eclipse swag. Last year we ordered some shirts and fleeces to give out to people that make an extra effort to build the Eclipse community. We have almost run out so it is time to order more. I know people have...

In 2007, I am really excited that we are going to schedule at least two webinars a month. We had a lot of success with webinars in 2006 and I really believe it is a good way to educate people on Eclipse projects. A special thanks to Adobe for making...

The very cool thing about Eclipse and I think often under stated is that Eclipse has enabled an entire industry of domain specific IDE’s. Besides support for basically any language you can think of, there are also IDEs for specific technologies. Some recent examples that have come to my attention...

I’ve been playing on and off with the Graphical Modeling Framework ( GMF) for a few months. I am by no means an expert, but I’m coming along. Over the past week or so, I’ve been playing with the the 2.0M3 milestone build (I see that 2.0M4 is out today)...

In November, I wrote about some experiments I did with Eclipse running on Apache Harmony. At the time, I was concerned exclusively with how much of the Eclipse SDK I could get running on the Harmony JRE. Today it occurred to me to try some of my Eclipse RCP applications...