Wayne Beaton's blog

    The “Projects into Workspace” Import Wizard

    Tuesday, November 3, 2015 - 06:36 by Wayne Beaton
    I broke Marcel’s language parser yesterday with what turns out to be an oddly-worded tweet. Use the “Projects into Workspace” import wizard to build an environment to develop Eclipse Platform UI is as long as it takes to download. — Wayne Beaton (@waynebeaton) November 2, 2015 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js It probably doesn’t...

    Platform and Java development tools at the EclipseCon Europe Hackathon

    Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 15:42 by Wayne Beaton
    We have a handful of committers from the Eclipse Platform and Java development tools (JDT) projects ready to help you fix bugs at the EclipseCon Europe 2015 Hackathon. Dani Megert (Eclipse Platform and JDT), Noopur Gupta (JDT UI committer), and Olivier Prouvost (Eclipse Platform UI) have all agreed to attend...

    Common Build Infrastructure at the EclipseCon Europe 2015 Hackathon

    Monday, September 14, 2015 - 10:26 by Wayne Beaton
    The Common Build Infrastructure (CBI) is an Eclipse project that provides a collection of build technology, infrastructure, and practices for building Eclipse software. If you’re building Eclipse plug-ins, this is something that you need to investigate. CBI leverages Maven and Tycho to build project artifacts from source, and Hudson to...

    Create your Project Import Set up at the EclipseCon Europe Hackathon

    Thursday, September 3, 2015 - 23:40 by Wayne Beaton
    Eclipse Mars has this great new feature that you may have missed: the Oomph Project Importer will configure your Eclipse workspace with everything you need to hit the ground running quickly. You can open this by selecting the Projects into Workspace importer via the File > Import… menu. The importer...