Wayne Beaton's blog

I hear a lot of good stuff about Eclipse Rich Client Platform ( RCP). I also hear some criticism. Perhaps the most popular criticisms that I’ve heard has to do with the scope of RCP. Some members of the community have the opinion that RCP doesn’t go far enough. It’s...

With a tip of the hat to Nick who is quite a lot better at this than I am, and an apology to Dire Straits… Now look at them yo-yo's that's the way you do it You write your software with the PDT That ain't workin' that's the way you...

I noticed today, while browsing through Eclipse Plug-in Central ( EPIC), that CloudGarden has released a new version of their Jigloo SWT/Swing GUI Builder. Jigloo, which can be easily added to your Eclipse-based IDE via update site, provides support for building user interfaces in SWT or Swing. It supports the...

I’ve been working on a tutorial titled “ Europa World Tour” that I’m delivering at EclipseWorld in November. This, frankly, is a huge challenge: nobody wants to sit and listen to me drone on about 21 different projects for an entire day. I believe that doing so would constitute cruel...

Last Friday, I spoke with Ralph Mueller, Director of Eclipse Eco-System Development in Europe about the upcoming Eclipse Forum Europe (ESE) 2007 Conference being held on October 10-12 in Ludwigsberg, Germany. You can listen to the conversation here. More podcasts can be found on the Eclipse Live site and newsfeed...

Two weeks ago, I informed the EMO of my intent to propose a new “Eclipse Examples Project” (EEP! for short). I had tried to work out a name that would result in the acronym “EEK”, but I couldn’t make it work (but I digress). The idea behind the project is...

“Inside the Memory View: A Guide for Debug Providers” by Samantha Chan has been published. This article discusses—oddly enough—how to use and extend the Memory View. The abstract states: There are many programming languages that allow access and discrete control of system memory. If you are a debug provider for...

Paul Glezen has updated his “Branching with Eclipse and CVS” article for Eclipse 3.3. The new article is a two-parter: part one presents a brief branch-and-merge scenario designed to quickly illustrate some branch-and-merge features, and part two shows how to rebase a subbranch with changes from the main branch before...

The uptake on Mark Dexter’s “ Eclipse and Java for Total Beginners” tutorials has been nothing short of phenomenal. He’s showing some impressive (no, staggering) download statistics and a discussion thread attached to his project is filled with kudos. Mark is helping a lot of people get started with the...

The call for participation in the Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE) Symposia is out. The symposia will be held on October 9th, the day before the start of the conference which runs October 10th and 11th. Seven sessions are planned: Application Provisioning hosted by Jeff McAffer and Tim Webb Eclipse Modeling...