EclipseCon, a runtime guy’s dream!
What the heck? “Eclipse” and “runtime” in the same sentence? Most people think of Eclipse as a tooling thing. Or perhaps an RCP thing. Well, take a look at the EclipseCon program and you will see that Eclipse is that and a whole lot more. I thought selecting talks on the program committe was hard but choosing which talks to actually attend is going to be even harder!
To see what I mean, go to the EclipseCon site and pick any of the days on the left. Then scroll down to the track selector and check only Eclipse as a Platform, OSGi DevCon and Rich Client Platform. Now look at the program. It doesn’t matter what day you pick, you will be double or triple booked pretty much the whole time. It is going to be a very busy week.
To make matters harder, I found many talks related to runtimes and platforms that did not fit nicely into the canned tracks. Here are a few that caught my eye:
- Eclipse Riena Project
- eRCP vs Android et al
- Swordfish
- Eclipse Command Language
- Jazz Ajax Framework
- RAP vs GWT
- API Tooling
Ok the last one is tooling and I am biased by involvement but how could a runtime guy not jump with joy about tooling that helps makes your modules more modular and backward compatibility a reality?
Anyway, all up I counted about 25 long talks (including those above) and about 40 short talks related to Equinox, Eclipse in various runtime/platform guises, OSGi, etc. Hope a lot of them are being recorded…
Don’t miss the fun, go register before the Valentine’s Day deadline and spend the money you saved on something for that someone special. See you there.
Oh, and for you committers out there, don’t miss the Committer Hackathon on all week. Get your team together and hack like crazy.