Archive for March, 2008
Using ECF for Lightweight Distributed Team Collaboration
In Using ECF for Lightweight Distributed Team Collaboration
Scott Lewis (BEA Systems), started by stating the goals of the Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF) project: to “lower barriers to team and community communication by providing [an] interoperable, integrated, extensible framework”.
Scott spoke of team productivity. Specifically, he talked a book by Scott E. Page, “The Difference” that [...]
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Eclipse Riena Project
This morning, after the throught-provoking keynote by Cory Doctorow, I sat in on the Eclipse Riena Project session, presented by Christian Campo (compeople AG, Frankfurt/Main, Germany)
Fundamentally, Riena is about distributing services across tiers. It’s born from a need to have applications that are lighter than rich clients, but more functional and performant than light [...]
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Gratuitous Weather Reference
People often ask us why we have EclipseCon in Santa Clara every year.
This is the convention center in Santa Clara:
(note the fountains on the left, the palm trees, and the generally warm glow).
This is my home in Ottawa (where most Eclipse Foundation employees live):
(note the after effects of more than 4m of snow).
Does that answer [...]
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Server-Side Eclipse - the dynamic server platform based on OSGi
Sometimes it feels like I’m stalking Frank Gerhardt. Or maybe I just like listening to German speakers. Whatever the case, it seems that almost every single talk I’ve attended has been presented by Frank, or one of his countrypersons…
This afternoon, I’m attending “Server-Side Eclipse - the dynamic server platform based on OSGi” presented by Jochen [...]
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Understanding JFace Data Binding
I’ve tinkered with the JFace DataBinding, but haven’t had a chance to really dig into it. So, this afternoon I attended “Understanding JFace Data Binding“, presented by Boris Bokowski (IBM Rational Software), Michael Scharf (Wind River), and Frank Gerhardt (Gerhardt Informatics). I loved the presentation style. They very likely didn’t plan for the rough edges [...]
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Building Secure OSGi Applications
I sat in on Marcel Offermans’, Karl Pauls’ (both from luminis) tutorial titled “Building Secure OSGi Applications“. Marcel and Karl provided a good incremental discovery approach to the tutorial, starting with the pre-OSGi 4.0 way of managing permission and moving quickly into the state of the art. The take-away from this tutorial for me is [...]
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Subversive or Subclipse?
Jesper was curious about Subclipse use captured by the Usage Data Collector, so I tweaked my queries to stop obfuscating the Subclipse bundles. The results for Subclipse and Subversive use by 465 users over the past 14 days are shown here.
First, the commands:
org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.ui.commit (invoked 805 times)
org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.ui.update (invoked 556 times)
It doesn’t appear that the Subversive plug-ins [...]
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Usage Data Collector Usage
Over the past 14 days, 453 (526 in total) of you have consented to upload your usage data to the Eclipse Foundation server. There hasn’t been a lot of change in the top five commands:
org.eclipse.ui.file.save 87098
org.eclipse.ui.edit.text.goto.wordNext 71274
org.eclipse.ui.edit.delete 66449
org.eclipse.ui.edit.paste 57309
org.eclipse.ui.edit.text.goto.wordPrevious 51138
Perspective use has some interesting parts, though they occur a little further down the list. It seems that most of us [...]
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Ask Me About…
I’ll be arriving at EclipseCon on Sunday and will be there all week. While I’m there, I’d like to talk to you. Yes you. And you. You also.
To make it as easy as possible, here are some topics we can discuss:
The Eclipse Examples Project (which successfully passed its creation review today)
The Eclipse Summer of Code [...]
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Usage Data Collection Status
The Usage Data Collector (UDC) is now part of the milestone 5 builds of the Ganymede packages produced by the Eclipse Packaging Project (EPP).
It seems that about 10% of those who have downloaded Ganymede M5 packages are participating in our usage data gathering exercise (1.2 million usage data events have been captured on our server [...]
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