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Participation with the Usage Data Collector (UDC) continues to increase. Over the past 14 days, 2,757,764 usage data events were been generated by 547 users (an average of 5,042 events per user). It seems that 370 of you used the JDT Package Explorer and 88 used the WST Servers view...

In Using ECF for Lightweight Distributed Team Collaboration Scott Lewis (BEA Systems), started by stating the goals of the Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF) project: to “lower barriers to team and community communication by providing [an] interoperable, integrated, extensible framework”. Scott spoke of team productivity. Specifically, he talked a book by...

This morning, after the throught-provoking keynote by Cory Doctorow, I sat in on the Eclipse Riena Project session, presented by Christian Campo (compeople AG, Frankfurt/Main, Germany) Fundamentally, Riena is about distributing services across tiers. It’s born from a need to have applications that are lighter than rich clients, but more...

People often ask us why we have EclipseCon in Santa Clara every year. This is the convention center in Santa Clara: (note the fountains on the left, the palm trees, and the generally warm glow). This is my home in Ottawa (where most Eclipse Foundation employees live): (note the after...

Sometimes it feels like I’m stalking Frank Gerhardt. Or maybe I just like listening to German speakers. Whatever the case, it seems that almost every single talk I’ve attended has been presented by Frank, or one of his countrypersons… This afternoon, I’m attending “ Server-Side Eclipse – the dynamic server...

I’ve tinkered with the JFace DataBinding, but haven’t had a chance to really dig into it. So, this afternoon I attended “ Understanding JFace Data Binding“, presented by Boris Bokowski (IBM Rational Software), Michael Scharf (Wind River), and Frank Gerhardt (Gerhardt Informatics). I loved the presentation style. They very likely...

I sat in on Marcel Offermans’, Karl Pauls’ (both from luminis) tutorial titled “ Building Secure OSGi Applications“. Marcel and Karl provided a good incremental discovery approach to the tutorial, starting with the pre-OSGi 4.0 way of managing permission and moving quickly into the state of the art. The take-away...

Jesper was curious about Subclipse use captured by the Usage Data Collector, so I tweaked my queries to stop obfuscating the Subclipse bundles. The results for Subclipse and Subversive use by 465 users over the past 14 days are shown here. First, the commands: org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.ui.commit (invoked 805 times) org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.ui.update (invoked...

Over the past 14 days, 453 (526 in total) of you have consented to upload your usage data to the Eclipse Foundation server. There hasn’t been a lot of change in the top five commands: org.eclipse.ui.file.save 87098 org.eclipse.ui.edit.text.goto.wordNext 71274 org.eclipse.ui.edit.delete 66449 org.eclipse.ui.edit.paste 57309 org.eclipse.ui.edit.text.goto.wordPrevious 51138 Perspective use has some interesting...

I’ll be arriving at EclipseCon on Sunday and will be there all week. While I’m there, I’d like to talk to you. Yes you. And you. You also. To make it as easy as possible, here are some topics we can discuss: The Eclipse Examples Project (which successfully passed its...