Archive for October, 2007
VE is Everywhere!
Some local artists have expressed their excitement with the revitalized Visual Editor (VE) project at Eclipse. I thought that I’d share their artistic expression.
For reasons unknown to me, the artists have opted to remain anonymous…
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Double, double, toil and trouble
We came across this interesting quote in the Eclipse Summit Europe surveys:
Ed’s and Rich’s demo of EMF/GMF (domain-specific modeling with the Eclipse Modeling Project) was unbelievable … I couldn’t help having a vision of a cottage where two madly giggling witches dance around a cauldron throwing in OCl, QVT, Ecore, Xpand, etc. while crying “snippet.txt”.
I [...]
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Adapters, part deux
In my last post on the topic, I hinted that adapters can be used to loosen the coupling in your code and then showed how you could use adapters to add even more coupling in your code. Originally, I had a domain class, Person, that knew how to provide information to the Properties view by [...]
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“Europa World Tour” at EclipseWorld 2007
I’ll be honest with you: I’m not sure what “World Tour” means. At present, I’m planning this “Europa” tutorial for EclipseWorld, being held November 6-8, 2007 in Reston, Virginia.
Since I started off with honesty, I may as well continue with it: I’ve been struggling to decide what constitutes a “Europa” tutorial. For the uninitiated, “Europa” [...]
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Gusty
I’ve been using Ubuntu Linux for a few months and am generally happy with it. It’s not perfect, but it’s very good. I’ve become a bit of a Linux apologist lately. I find myself apologising for the fact that my laptop doesn’t easily connect to external monitors and projectors. I apologise that my microphone stopped [...]
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Eclipse gets gutsy
Look who’s given Eclipse some love…
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Team Development
Months ago, I started a series based on a 2002 blog posting about Eclipse titled “Ten Reasons to Use Eclipse”. As of July, I’ve managed to get through first eight reasons (the previous entry is here). Today, I’m going to look at reason number nine: Team Development
Eclipse is designed to successfully interact with any software [...]
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Open Financial Market Platform Workshop: Services for a Banking Platform
I’ve posted a podcast that I recorded last week with Alexey Aristov, co-project lead of the proposed Open Financial Market Platform (OFMP) project. In this podcast, Alexey discusses the history and nature of the project, some of the challenges that lay ahead, and the results of the workshop held on this topic at Eclipse Summit [...]
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Adapters
In my last installment, I showed how—by making a domain class implement IPropertySource and (naturally) implementing the methods required by that interface—you can expose properties from a domain class that can be viewed and modified by the Properties view. In that posting, I suggested that implementing IPropertySource introduces a tight coupling between the model and [...]
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XAML on SWT
I spoke with Yves Yang today at the Eclipse: Now You Can conference (I think it was a “conference”) in Paris about the eFace product he’s been working on. It appeared on TSS today; you can find the link here. You can find more information here and here. Essentially, eFace is an implementation of XAML [...]
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