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Markus Knauer and Harald Kornmayer presented the g-eclipse project at Eclipse Summit Europe earlier today (“ From Grid to Cloud computing“). Markus gave a great demo of how g-eclipse can be used to manage a collection of computers running in (on?) Amazon’s cloud (there’s some good documentation that shows how...

Excelsior just released Excelsior JET 6.5 beta 3. With Excelsior JET, you can compile your Java- and Eclipse-based applications into a “native” executable with an embedded JRE (no external JRE required). The new version features a GUI for compiling RCP applications. Their website contains a collection of compiled open source...

Eric Rizzo has joined the Technology PMC. Anybody who has been paying attention will no-doubt recognise Eric’s name. He was the winner of the “Top Newcomer Evangelist” award at last year’s EclipseCon. If you spend any time in the Eclipse newsgroups, you’ve likely come across his name. He is very...

The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme has been a great vehicle for university outreach. For the 2008 running of GSoC, the Eclipse Foundation received student 127 applications from almost as many institutions. Most of the students submitting proposals were currently enrolled in undergraduate programmes, but many where pursuing graduate-level...

The EclipseCon 2009 submission system is now open and ready for your talk proposals. Be sure to get your talk proposal in before the November 24th deadline. Now… November 24th sounds like a long way off, but it’ll be here … Continue reading →

Lars Vogel is quickly becoming one of our most prolific contributors. His latest entry teaches the reader how to create that first bundle and gently introduces the terminology and technology around OSGi and Equinox. Send comments about the article directly to Lars (his email address is on the article).

I spent a couple of hours at CASCON 2008 today. The conference, brought to us by the good folks at IBM’s Centers for Advanced Studies (CAS). This conference brings together researchers from industry and university to learn from each other and share what they’ve been working on. I attended today...

I think we all agree that committer satisfaction is important. As the Eclipse Foundation dedicates resources into developing more and better services for committers, it behooves us to have some sense for whether or not we are indeed improving the committer experience. In order to have any sense of the...

I’ve been filling in some of the gaps in unit testing on the Eclipse Examples project’s Eclipse Business Expense Reporting and Tracking (EBERT) component. My focus over the past several days has been to make sure that the user interface tests are as complete as I can make them. I...

I’ve been corresponding with a Brazilian developer who has some questions about SWT. Unfortunately, there’s a language barrier that’s preventing me from being helpful. I know that we have a fairly large contingent of committers from Brazil; does anybody out there have a few cycles that they can spare to...