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The second announcement we are making at JavaOne ( here is the first) is the launch of Eclipse Plugin Central (EPIC). Many of you already know EPIC; in fact it has been in existence since 2004. The new news is that the EPIC Alliance (Innoopract, Instantiations and Genuitec) has contributed...

I was interviewed twice yesterday while in Paris. One was with Olivier Rafal, a well-known French IT Journalist, and the other was a video interview by Didier Gerard who posts his interviews on TV4IT. The second one worries me a little primarily because it’s yet another opportunity to hear my...

Next week at JavaOne, we are doing a press releases announcing the new top-level Eclipse Modeling project. (A preview of the release can be found here) I really believe the Eclipse modeling projects are understated; in particular the EMF project which is consistently one of the most popular downloads and...

The winners of the JAX Innovation Awards were announced this week at the JAX and Eclipse Forum Europe conference. Of course it is great to see 3 out of the 5 winners were Eclipse based platforms. The bioeclipse platform looks really interesting and I think it reflects a trend for...

I learned an important lesson yesterday. Last night, I took a walk down Rue St. Denis in Paris and had a reasonably nice dinner at one of the many sandwich stands that litter the street. As I munched on my food, it occurred to me that I only had about...

I spoke this morning at Club Java in Paris. I’m on my way home from Eclipse Forum Europe and, of course, couldn’t pass up such a great opportunity to speak to a developer community (I’ve been speaking at a lot of Java User Group meetings lately). Vlad, who organized my...

With JavaOne coming up, I thought it would be appropriate to remember that Eclipse is much more than just Java. I thought it might interesting to map the Eclipse support of popular computer languages. Based on this ranking of computer languages, it looks like 15 out of the 20 languages...

We had an incredible jump in the number of student proposals for Eclipse projects in Google’s Summer of Code. On Saturday, we had 12 proposals. Today we have 77! Many of the proposals are interesting. It seems that there is a disportionate number of people who are interested in providing...

Instantiations has been a long time player in the Eclipse ecosystem with their popular WindowBuilder product. Therefore, I was thrilled when the announced their new RCP Developer product. To help educate people on Eclipse RCP, Instantiations is sponsoring a webinar with the foks at Sys-con media. If you or someone...

I just noticed after a cursory review that six of the ten nominations for the JAX Innovation Award 2006 have something to do with Eclipse. Try as I might, I can’t figure out a reasonable way to put “Swing” in the title of this…