Archive for January, 2006
Eclipse SDK and Java 5
Every now and then, somebody asks a question about whether or not the Eclipse IDE supports Java 5. If you look at the 3.1.2 release notes, you’ll see that version 3.1.2 has been tested on Java 1.4.2 on variety of platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac OS, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX) as well as Java 5 on Windows [...]
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Souvenirs, Wearables, and Gifts
With Bug# 125649, Chris has suggested that somebody out there should setup an “Eclipse Store” selling Eclipse-branded merchandise. I think he’s suggesting that the Eclipse Foundation should probably do something along these lines; I thought that there might be something in the rules that would prevent us from setting up a store, but I can’t [...]
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Waterfall 2006
I hope that everybody out there is planning to attend Waterfall2006!
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Eclipse in Motion: A four city tour
I’m gearing up fo the Eclipse in Motion seminar series. I’m running the afternoon technical session with assistance from some very experienced Eclipse developers. The format of the technical session will be very loose. I’m not planning to deliver very much slideware, but rather will be soliciting input from the audience to determine what we’re [...]
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Discouraged Access
I recently got this question from a developer building Eclipse plug-ins:
What should I do about classes with discouraged access? For example IAntUIConstants is “internal”.
To start with, if you haven’t encountered this yourself already, here’s what it looks like in the Java editor when a class in your plug-in attempts to make use of the IAntUIConstants [...]
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Eclipse User Interface Guidelines: Now in Chinese!
Bobbie Wang and Cliff Liang have translated the Eclipse User Interface Guidelines article into Chinese. I obviously don’t have my browser configured properly, because it appears as a bunch of characters that look very little like Chinese (lots and lots of umlats) with a occassional word that I can actually read. I’ve been told (and [...]
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Golly… updating articles is hard work…
Today I’ve been working through some of the outstanding bugs raised against existing articles in Eclipse Corner. It’s a lot of work, but most of the changes are relatively small things that are relatively easy to fix. It’d be nice if the authors could fix the problems themselves, but I understand what it takes to [...]
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Authoring in Eclipse
Apologies to Chris. I had John Arthorne’s name in my head as I was typing this and erroneously gave John credit where it was due Chris. Somebody please call me an idiot.
Chris Aniszczyk and Lawrence Mandel are taking a stab at revolutionizing the way that Eclipse articles are authored. And they’re taking a novel approach: [...]
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Graphical Modeling Framework Article
Authors have been very busy this month. Yesterday, Frederic Plante’s article, “Introducing the GMF Runtime” was added to the Eclipse Corner Articles site. Oddly enough, in this article Frederic introduces the GMF runtime. A lot of folks have been waiting for GMF to make their lives easier (during his talk at JavaPolis, Nuno of [...]
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Eclipse Forms Article
Earlier today, I posted an article on Eclipse Forms by Dejan Glozic onto the Eclipse Corner Articles site. It’s pretty powerful stuff; using the Forms API, you can build user interface components that look and feel “browser-like”. As the article suggests, forms are probably best suited for views and editors (not dialogue boxes), but you [...]
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