Archive for August, 2006
A couple of new Eclipse articles
We just posted a great new tutorial titled “Building Project Facets” by Konstantin Komissarchik of BEA Systems on Eclipse Corner. If you want to know what facets are, and how you can use them to extend the capabilities of the Web Tools Platform, this tutorial will set you straight.
I’ve also recently published an article, “Eclipse [...]
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Symposia at Eclipse Summit Europe
Yesterday, I submitted my position paper for the Rich Client Applications Symposium at Eclipse Summit Europe. My position is basically that Eclipse Rich Client is good, components a la Equinox are king, and that folks should be building domain specific extensible platforms using Eclipse Rich Client technology. To be completely honest, this is my first [...]
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Yet another calendar widget
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 harder than I had hoped. [...]
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Ten Projects. One Day. Am I completely nuts?
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 of Eclipse 3.2—10 projects coming together with [...]
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What’s so great about ICU4J?
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.
I spent a few minutes today [...]
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ICU4J
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. But one of the problems with [...]
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Does Eclipse really give milk?
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 presenting on ALF
Andy Bosch is presenting Eclipse und [...]
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Eclipse Icons
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 for a discussion of the page, [...]
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New Eclipse Corner Article: Implementing Model Integrity in EMF with EMFT OCL
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 of invariant constraints, derived attributes [...]
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Of course, it doesn’t hurt to poke the editor…
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 depends on what else is [...]
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