Blog Posts

Alan Zeichick, editor-in-chief of SD Times and BZ Media, did us the honour of visiting us in frigid Ottawa. Alan and the gang at BZ Media are preparing the launch of the Eclipse Review magazine. The first edition is set for EclispeCon. Alan was kind enough to share with us...

I’ve been noticing an interesting trend in the worldwide ecosystem growth of Eclipse. No longer content with just focusing on software and developer tools, the Eclipse community has begun to branch out into new areas. Among them: UK-based courier services and Canary Island real estate. As evidence, take a look...

I’m gearing up fo the Eclipse in Motion seminar series. I’m running the afternoon technical session with assistance from some very experienced Eclipse developers. The format of the technical session will be very loose. I’m not planning to deliver very much slideware, but rather will be soliciting input from the...

I recently got this question from a developer building Eclipse plug-ins: What should I do about classes with discouraged access? For example IAntUIConstants is “internal”. To start with, if you haven’t encountered this yourself already, here’s what it looks like in the Java editor when a class in your plug-in...

Daniel Steingberg from onJava is looking for some cool open source Java projects to put in proposals at OSCON. Seems like the Harmony and Eclipse proposals are a tad boring; at least to Ruby and Perl folks. Hmmm, those sound like fighting words :-). Seriously, I think there is a...

Bobbie Wang and Cliff Liang have translated the Eclipse User Interface Guidelines article into Chinese. I obviously don’t have my browser configured properly, because it appears as a bunch of characters that look very little like Chinese (lots and lots of umlats) with a occassional word that I can actually...

Congratulations to the BIRT team for their new 2.0 release. We just issued a press release to highlight this fact, so I hope to see some good coverage for BIRT this week. You can also check out the new and noteworthy here. Two things that really sitck out for me...

Wolfgang Gehner from Infonoia has posted an interesting article about using RCP/Equinox for server side applications. There are also discussion threads about the article on EclipseZone and The ServerSide. There seems to be a lot of innovation developing around RCP and Equinox. This is a great example and it will...

Last week, Sun and Oracle made a big partnership announcement. Part of the announcement contained a reference to Oracle and NetBeans; but no specifics. Oracle is a great supporter of Eclipse, leading 3 projects, so this announcement got my attention. Therefore, I was happy to see Omar Tazi reference an...

I’m heading to the airport soon, and wanted to blog about the week before leaving. I’ve been in Bejing this week for the first annual Eclipse Day in China. This event was hosted by Tsinghua University, the premier technical university in China. (Sometimes referred to as the “MIT of China”.)...