Frameworks

Managing Eclipse RCP Launch Arguments

In my last post I discussed how to best manage run configurations for Eclipse RCP applications. But there was one related topic I wanted to discuss in more...

0 replies - 775 views - 09/09/09 by patrickpaulin in Articles

Xtext @ Google

Last week I had the chance to speak at the EclipseDay at the GooglePlex in Mountain View, CA, an event organized by the Eclipse Foundation and hosted by...

0 replies - 1351 views - 09/04/09 by Peter Friese in Articles

Book Giveaway: Dependency Injection Exclusive Chapter Download

DZone and Manning Publications have partnered to bring you an exclusive chapter from 'Dependency Injection' (by Dhanji R. Prasanna). This chapter covers...

9 replies - 3867 views - 08/28/09 by lyndsey in Articles

What is a Modular Application Anyway?

What does the term application mean in the context of modular software development (and OSGi in particular). It seems to me that the concept of an application...

0 replies - 952 views - 08/28/09 by patrickpaulin in Articles

Enterprise JavaFX: Our Experience Building a JavaFX UI for a Seam Booking Application

JavaFX is new tool set for developing and delivering Rich Internet Applications or RIAs. JavaFX 1.0 was released in December 2008, and JavaFX 1.2 was released...

10 replies - 6452 views - 08/26/09 by maxkatz in Articles

Renaming Eclipse RCP – Vote now!

It’s been three months since my post requesting that we rename Eclipse RCP and we’ve received many ideas from the Eclipse community.

0 replies - 1144 views - 08/25/09 by patrickpaulin in Articles

Integrating BIRT into Your Maven Build - A Work In Progress

When ever I undertake a project I always looks for an opportunity to use at least one new technology so as to continually increase the number of tools I have...

0 replies - 3159 views - 08/24/09 by mxc4 in Articles

Adding Eclipse IDE Menu Options to Your RCP Applications

One of the many things that Eclipse RCP provides is a set of standard menu options that are used by the Eclipse IDE itself. These include standard menu options...

0 replies - 1250 views - 08/18/09 by patrickpaulin in Articles

Book Review: Practical Eclipse Rich Client Platform Projects

There aren’t many books available about the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. One reason for this, I think, is that it’s a difficult subject to cover...

2 replies - 975 views - 08/14/09 by patrickpaulin in Articles

VMWare to Acquire SpringSource for $362 Million

Virtualization infrastructure provider VMware announced today that it will acquire SpringSource for approximately $362 million in cash and equity plus the...

48 replies - 10667 views - 08/11/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

“Wir Werden e4 in Helios Wiedersehen”, Part One

I thought I might publish the English version of an interview I did for the recent issue of Eclipse Magazin (with permission of the publisher, of course). The...

0 replies - 554 views - 08/11/09 by Wayne Beaton in Articles

Remember the State

As a rule of thumb, your application should try to remember the state across sessions. So when a user hits the close button and then opens it after few...

0 replies - 1262 views - 08/07/09 by Prakash in Articles

e4 Webinars: Discover What is Possible With e4

The e4 team has published the first release of the e4 project.  This is an early alpha release that  allows the Eclipse community to start experimenting and...

0 replies - 1170 views - 08/03/09 by Ian Skerrett in Articles

e4 - The Future is Almost Here

We're getting closer to the 0.9 release of e4, a major milestone in the future of Eclipse, and maybe all desktop applications. In this article, I'd like to...

8 replies - 6089 views - 07/30/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

AJDT 2.0 is Here

And it looks good. I complained pretty vociferously on here about the inability of eclipse to understand ITDs (or at least not show them as an error). That's...

1 replies - 2273 views - 07/27/09 by Rob Williams in Articles