Wayne Beaton's blog

Every time I look at RAP, I break into giggling fits. This stuff is just plain cool (though it does make it hard to convince my wife that I am indeed working in my home office, but I digress…) I’m planning to speak briefly about RAP during my “Eclipse and...

It’s a pretty staggering number when you think about it. Feedback from attendees of webinars shows that some 99% find them to be a worthwhile way to spend part of your day. If you haven’t tapped into this valuable resource, you should. To see the full schedule of upcoming webinars...

I get a lot of offers to speak at various events throughout the world. Far more than I can attend myself. For those events that I am unable to attend, I try to find somebody (preferably from the local area) to attend in my place. I have a pretty good...

I’ve managed to pick up some extra responsibilities for the upcoming JavaPolis 2007 conference in Antwerp, Belgium. In addition to the talk on Mylyn that I’ve been planning to do for a while now, I’ve recently been coerced (in a relatively nice way) into delivering a three hour “IDEs in...

The submission deadline for EclipseCon talk proposals is November 19th. Get your proposal in today!

Adam Archer’s article, Eclipse Forms: New in 3.3, is now available on Eclipse Corner Articles. In this article, Adam extends the basics covered in Dejan Glozic’s Eclipse Forms: Rich UI for the Rich Client. In the article, Adam discusses the new features of Eclipse Forms, providing many examples (with screenshots).

I was asked recently if I knew of a good JSP editor for Eclipse. The easiest answer is to look at the Web Tools 2.0, part of the Europa release and available from the Europa update site, which includes a visual HTML/JSP/JSF editor. I’ve had some good experiences with this...

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Over the past week or so, I’ve been discussing how you can make your objects adaptable into different forms. This is great for getting your objects to tightly integrate with existing parts of the Eclipse infrastructure, while remaining loosely coupled with the actual implementation. Loose coupling with tight integration is...

Some local artists have expressed their excitement with the revitalized Visual Editor (VE) project at Eclipse. I thought that I’d share their artistic expression. For reasons unknown to me, the artists have opted to remain anonymous…