Wayne Beaton's blog

I needed a good calendar widget, so I took a look around. There are quite a few calendar widgets out there for Eclipse, but none of them did quite what I wanted. I looked at modifying one to better suit my requirements, but it turned out to be a lot...

I’m finishing up the materials for the Callisto Bootcamp that I’m running at Eclipse World. I thought it might be a good idea to do a little expectation management for those of you who are planning to attend. Here’s the description as found on the conference program: The Callisto launch...

Yesterday, I introduced International Components for Unicode for Java (ICU4J) by describing how you can get rid of it. I feel pretty about about that, because ICU4J provides goodness that’s too important to simply dismiss. If you’re building applications for an international audience, you have to get this stuff right...

As noted in the Eclipse Wiki, ICU4J was adopted by Eclipse 3.2. ICU4J provides “more comprehensive support for Unicode, software globalization, and internationalization” than the standard java.text libraries, but comes at a cost. ~3MB to be inexact. The functionality provided by ICU4J is great to have… if you need it...

I just reviewed the programme for the iX conference that’s coming up in November 2006. There’s a lot of Eclipse activity at the conference, including: Kai Tödter is holding a tutorial on Eclipse Rich Client Platform Richard Schwaninger is presenting Milchkuh Eclipse (Migrating Legacy Applications to Eclipse) Kevin Parker is...

Ben Walding has put together a page that contains all the icons contained in the Eclipse CVS repository. It’s a handy resource for finding just the right icon. They’re all released under the EPL, so you can actually reuse the icons (subject to the terms of the licence). See here...

This article illustrates how the EMFT OCL parser/interpreter technology adds to the value of EMF/JET code generation as a foundation for model-driven development (MDD). We will see, with fully functional examples, how a metamodel can be generated from an Ecore model without requiring any post-generation custom code, including complete implementations...

Chris took me to task after this posting, exposing an important part of the Eclipse Corner publishing process: if things seem to be stalled, poke me (either directly or with a bugzilla comment). Sometimes the process of getting an article published on Eclipse Corner is very time consuming. It all...

One of the great things about my job is that it doesn’t really matter where I actually physically work (at least part of the time). I took the opportunity yesterday to spend a few hours watching my kids at hockey camp. It was a little weird sitting in the freezing...

I know that I found this a little weird at first, so I can completely understand the confusion around how we use the Eclipse bug system. To summarize: we use it for almost everything. Some projects have discussions entirely captured in the bug tracking system; many of these bugs are...