Wayne Beaton's blog

The Usage Data Collector ( UDC) is now part of the milestone 5 builds of the Ganymede packages produced by the Eclipse Packaging Project ( EPP). It seems that about 10% of those who have downloaded Ganymede M5 packages are participating in our usage data gathering exercise (1.2 million usage...

I’ve done this so many times… Today I downloaded the Ganymede M5 release of Eclipse for RCP/Plug-in Developers and did what I always do: Create a link of the eclipse executable, using the handy icon.xpm graphic, and drag the combination onto my desktop for easy launching; and Open the eclipse.ini...

Building server-based applications with Equinox is getting easier. The Equinox project’s server team has created a short tutorial that describes how to get a servlet up and running using a handful of bundles on the Equinox framework. The best part is that everything you need to run the tutorial is...

I’ve spent a few hours over the last few days reworking parts of my Eclipse Organizer example that I intend to contribute to the Eclipse Examples Project. Mostly, I’ve been working on introducing OSGi Services into the mix. Frankly, I’m totally in love with services. Yes—if I could—I’d marry them...

The EclipseCon 2008 Birds of a Feather schedule is now available for your viewing pleasure. There is still space available if you want to schedule a BoF of your own. We’re still taking them on a first-come, first-served basis so don’t wait any longer than you need to. Be advised...

I’ve put together a very simple report on the data collected so far by the Usage Data Collector ( UDC). The report itself is static, as querying the database can get quite expensive. I’ve set it up to show a fourteen day period of results. I haven’t setup an automated...

Things are heating up and the excitement is building with the the usage data collector ( UDC). It seems that debugging is making a play… The five most popular commands over the past 14 days are: org.eclipse.ui.file.save (8436) org.eclipse.ui.edit.delete (5289) org.eclipse.ui.edit.text.contentAssist.proposals (4983) org.eclipse.ui.edit.paste (4645) org.eclipse.debug.ui.commands.StepOver (4573) I thought that it...

The Usage Data Collector ( UDC) is included in the Eclipse Packaging Project’s ( EPP) “Eclipse IDE for…” packages for the Ganymede M4. More specifically, they are included the packages marked “UDC”. You can find them here. The UDC is included in all the M5 packages. Nightly builds of M5...

A lot more of you are participating with the Usage Data Collector (UDC). We’ve tried to make it very robust, and as low impact on your experience with Eclipse as possible. That said, it’s hard to get things exactly right, so please report a bug if you run into problems...

Today, as I was looking over the BoF submissions for EclipseCon, I decided to decline one of the redundant submissions (Chris must have hit submit twice). I then hit what I thought was a “commit changes” button. Long story short, Karl is now restoring the database from backups and we’re...