Archive for the 'Announcements' Category
e4 0.9 Release
The EMO has just approved the release of e4 0.9. There s a lot of excitement around this project and I encourage everybody to get involved. First, please read McQ’s excellent overview, then read the whitepaper. Visit the e4 site. Most important, go and get it (though you may have to wait for at least [...]
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Finishing up the Galileo Release Reviews
I have been making my way through the results of the Great Galileo Release Review of 2009. It’s a slow-going, fairly mechanical process that eats your brain. The process has given me (if this is possible) even more respect for Anne who usually takes care of this sort of thing. I’ve been trying to work [...]
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More reviews on June 24th: Pave, ATF, Jetty, and eRCP
On June 24th, we have several project review scheduled. First, we have a creation review for the Pave project. We have a continuation review for the Ajax Toolkit Framework (ATF) project, a graduation/release review for the Jetty Project, and a release review for the eRCP project.
Currently, in Eclipse, there is a set of atomic operations [...]
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Upcoming Project Reviews: PDT and Mint
I have scheduled a supplementary review for two projects that we missed on June 10th. The PHP Development Tools (PDT) and EMFT Mint projects will hold release reviews on June 17th, 2009 at 1500 UTC. When I say “hold release reviews”, I really mean that in the time leading up to the review date, I [...]
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Upcoming Release Review: eRCP 1.3
The intent of this project is to extend the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) to embedded devices. eRCP is largely a set of components which are subsets of RCP components. It basically enables the same application model used on desktop machines to be used on devices.
New features in this release include:
Currency with Eclipse 3.5
OSGi and [...]
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Calling all Mac/Eclipse Enthusiasts!
Attention all Mac owners! We need your help to test the now-complete Cocoa port of SWT.
The SWT team has been working hard on the SWT Cocoa port and they’ve marked the plan item as completed. Current testing indicates that it’s looking very good, but we need more help. We need to get as many eyes [...]
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Jetty at Eclipse
The EMO just posted the Jetty Project Proposal. Jetty is a Java-based web server and implementation of the Servlet Specification and is currently hosted at The Codehaus under the Apache 2.0 license.
The new project, which will fall under the Eclipse RT top-level project, has the following objectives:
Maintain an embeddable release of a HTTP server [...]
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Mobile Embedded Development Conference
FOSSLC & FOSS Factory invite you to attend a free mini-workshop about open source software development on the mobile platform, Mobile Embedded Development Conference, in Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) Wednesday February 4th, 2009 from 5:00pm to 10:00pm.
Experts in their fields, the speakers will introduce the applications they have developed and give mini-tutorials about how to develop [...]
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Eclipse Plug-ins, Third Edition
The third edition of “Eclipse Plug-ins” (previously titled “Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins”) by Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel is available.
Eclipse Plug-ins provides detailed, practical coverage of every aspect of
plug-in development, as well as specific, proven solutions for the
challenges developers are most likely to encounter. This comprehensive guide
covers the entire process of plug-in development, including all [...]
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BIRT Extension Mechanism, Part 1: Custom Report Items
Yesterday, Zhiqiang Qian’s new article titled “BIRT Extension Mechanism, Part 1: Custom Report Items” went live. The article discusses how you can extend BIRT to support new types of report items (things that you can include in your reports). The example shows how to provide support for rotated text.
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