Eclipse 4 (e4): How, when and why to migrate

Since e4 technology and concepts are in every Juno release and will be downloaded millions of times, many projects are currently evaluating why, when and how to migrate to the Eclipse 4 (e4) Application platform. The why and the when answers are classical, “It depends…”  In fact, the answers depend on many criteria such as [...]

Developing software is a pretty abstract job. In many cases you don’t really “see” what’s happening. Once a developer has completed a task, she/he sends some bits to the SCM and starts the next one. In open source projects several developers do this every day, sometimes at the same time, but they might not even [...]

For those of you who were procrastinating and waiting for the last minute to get your EclipseCon 2013 submission in, your last chance is here.  The EclipseCon submission system will be shutdown at the end of day today (November 19 2012). The EclipseCon program committee will start reviewing the submissions tomorrow, so this really is a hard [...]

The RAP team has been working hard over the last weeks and made another milestone build for RAP 2.0 available today. RAP 2.0 M3 contains a brand new event system implementation that allowed us to get rid of some old bugs and to attach listeners more precisely in the protocol. Many RAP developers will like [...]

Recently I started working at a headless client for RAP 2.0 with the following aims: Allow functional testing of RAP/RWT applications. Allow stress testing of RAP/RWT applications, working together with a performance test library. A secondary requirement is to: Be similar enough to the SWTBot API so that the effort for testing single-sourced applications is [...]

Today I travelled from Victoria B.C. to Vancouver B.C. to attend the Eclipse Hack-a-thon. It was a great event and I met some really interesting people. I also had a chance to catch up with some old friends. There were several Eclipse vetrans in attendance including Andrew Eisenberg (famous for his work on Groovy and Grails [...]

Along with the release of Windows 8 also came the new Internet Explorer 10. (It has not yet been released for Windows 7.) While IE9 was an impressive (but overdue) technical improvement over IE8, IE10 is – naturally – a much smaller step forward. Significant for RAP are especially the improvements in CSS3 support, and [...]

This year we are again very happy to be hosting an Eclipse November DemoCamp in Munich. However, we are cheating a little, because it will be on December 5th. So let’s call it the Christmas DemoCamp: Due to renovations we can only offer 80 seats this time, so please make sure you register soon, as [...]

So you have build an iOS app using Tabris or another technology of your choice? Then you should know how to get your app to your users. In order to distribute an iOS app, the following things are needed: A Mac or access to an OS X machine like provided by MacinCloud An up-to-date version [...]