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    Eclipse at ECOOP

    Monday, May 29, 2006 - 13:23 by Wayne Beaton
    The European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming ( ECOOP) 2006 is being held in Nantes, France from July 3rd to 7th. Eclipse is going to be there in full force. The Eclipse Technology Exchange (eTX) Workshop will be held on July 4th. The goal of the eTX workshop is to create...

    Creating Micro-platforms

    Tuesday, May 23, 2006 - 12:18 by Anonymous (not verified)
    Eclipse has been very successful in developing a common platform for development tools integration. In fact, I believe one of the strengths of Eclipse is the large ecosystems of vendors, individuals and organizations that are building on top of the Eclipse platform. However, Eclipse is not unique in creating this...

    Announcing Eclipse Webinars

    Tuesday, May 23, 2006 - 05:17 by Anonymous (not verified)
    In the lead up to the Callisto release, we have decided to run a series of webinar s about some of the projects that are included in the Callisto release. The intention is to help educate people on what you can do with the different Eclipse projects. To get things...

    Stretch out and wait… or don’t

    Saturday, May 20, 2006 - 07:10 by Wayne Beaton
    Good news for Eclipse plug-in/RCP developers who need to embed Swing/AWT components in SWT views on the Mac! Thanks to the efforts of Apple’s JVM developers, the SWT_AWT bridge now works on the Mac. Bug#: 67384 is now marked as resolved (and is peppered with comments declaring victory). Now… I...

    Eclipse Corner Spam

    Friday, May 19, 2006 - 12:45 by Wayne Beaton
    Another first for me! How very exciting. Somebody took the time to adapt some of their advertising materials to the Eclipse Corner Articles format and posted their contents as an article submission. I’ve decided to be in awe of the … Continue reading →

    Eclipse: too big?

    Friday, May 19, 2006 - 00:32 by Wayne Beaton
    I get this question every once in a while: why is Eclipse so big? Typically, the person asking the question is thinking about the SDK. Why is the Eclipse SDK ( version 3.2RC4) 121MB? It’s a good question. The name “Eclipse SDK” provides a hint: it is the Software Development...