Mike Milinkovich's blog

    ECJ Adoption

    Sunday, January 21, 2007 - 22:07 by Mike Milinkovich
    I just stumbled across the news that the GCJ team is now using the Eclipse Compiler for Java as the front end to GCJ. This is pretty darn cool. ECJ is a rock-solid and highly regarded technology. I’m glad to see it getting even more adoption. It has been used...

    DAT: ACM Distinguished Engineer

    Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 22:18 by Mike Milinkovich
    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...

    Joining Communities

    Thursday, January 11, 2007 - 16:17 by Mike Milinkovich
    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...

    Birthday Thank You

    Tuesday, December 19, 2006 - 22:56 by Mike Milinkovich
    So one last (and somewhat belated) post related to the Eclipse 5th birthday celebrations. As many of you may already know, over the past month or so we tracked down the 65 or so people who were the original founders of both the Eclipse Project and the Eclipse Consortium and...

    EPL Viral?

    Friday, November 17, 2006 - 15:09 by Mike Milinkovich
    Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I have no idea why, but this question has come up in several different emails to the “license at eclipse.org” mail id this week. Maybe it’s because of Sun’s recent announcement that it was releasing Java under the GPL. The question has been asked...

    Congratulations Simon

    Monday, November 13, 2006 - 15:29 by Mike Milinkovich
    So congratulations are clearly in order for Simon Phipps , one of my favourite sparring partners. I’m sure that when he started at Sun to open source Java he had no idea what a long and winding road it would be. I definitely applaud his perseverance. This was certainly a...

    Birthday Redux

    Wednesday, November 8, 2006 - 15:33 by Mike Milinkovich
    The party at the “P” last night was good fun. In all the years (almost 30) that I’ve been going to the Prescott, I never knew they had a party room upstairs. We’re going to have to find an excuse to use that again. Here are a few more articles...

    Happy Birthday!

    Tuesday, November 7, 2006 - 13:20 by Mike Milinkovich
    So five years ago today was when the download servers were turned on in the basement of the IBM OTI Labs on Queensview Drive in Ottawa. It’s been one heck of a ride. I don’t think that anyone could have predicted the success that Eclipse has enjoyed. Thanks go to...

    Open Source Java Coming Soon(er)?

    Wednesday, November 1, 2006 - 16:24 by Mike Milinkovich
    This is pretty exciting news. Motorola is going to throw its resources behind ensuring that there is an Apache-licensed Java ME implementation. And how’s this for a quote from Mark VandenBrink: We see industry fragmentation and proprietary software models as an obstacle to unharnessing the full power of innovation in...

    Java Component War?

    Friday, October 20, 2006 - 17:15 by Mike Milinkovich
    Inspired by Donald’s post I am going to use a combination of wild hyperbole and question marks in my blog titles for a while. Last December Onno Kluyt kindly asked if I would come and talk about Eclipse at the JCP’s Executive Committee meeting. The last point in my presentation...