Archive for July, 2008
Event Service
I blogged a while back about the potential use of a bus for delivering property change notifications in place of the very common observer pattern. A reader commented that the exact service I need to implement that sort of thing is already available in the form of the OSGi Event Service. An implementation of this [...]
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Holy Cow!
Participation in the Usage Data Collector has been nothing short of outstanding. As of this moment, we have gathered usage data from more than 22,000 users (more than 20,000 new participants this month alone). The usage trends page shows this in a cool graph.
The other reports that we’ve generated are a little out of date [...]
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Paste Snippet
Try this in Eclipse Ganymede (one of the variants that includes the Java development tools):
Copy this text:
System.out.println(new Date());
Bring the Package Explorer into focus (make sure that none of the existing projects is highlighted) and select “Paste” from the context menu.
JDT will build the project, package, class, and main method for you. How cool is that?
There’s [...]
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Eclipse IDE for Education
I just created bug 239808, Eclipse IDE for Education, as a proposal for a new component in the SOC project. Please add your comments on the bug. While you’re at it, we’re looking for volunteers…
The proposal originates from the need to provide a streamlined environment to help first-year undergraduate-level university students ease into the combined [...]
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Java Forum Stuttgart 2008
There’s something about the Java Forum Stuttgart conference that I really like. The conference is a little on the large size (I believe that I heard that there were 1,200 attendees) which gives the exhibit area a really busy feel. Good busy.
As a speaker, I can’t say enough about this conference. They take care of [...]
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But I’m not a Newbie!
If you have a question about some Eclipse project, the newsgroups are your best bet.
If you’re not sure what group is appropriate for your question, post it on newcomer. Posters to newcomer are often redirected to other newsgroups, but newcomer is a good starting point since a lot of very knowledgeable people watch the [...]
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