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I'm passionate on both Mac and Eclipse. Although Eclipse runs well on a Mac, its not a marriage made in heaven. Its really hard to get the complete Mac...

1 replies - 1704 views - 05/25/09 by Prakash in Articles

Creating a Custom Property View

In an RCP application, you might need a Properties View, which shows only the properties of a specific view or a set of views. But the generic Properties View...

1 replies - 2337 views - 05/18/09 by Prakash in Articles

Five Reasons To Be Excited About the Eclipse Ecosystem

As a developer who depends on the Eclipse platform daily, there are a number of projects that I couldn't do without in the Eclipse eco-system. I'm not talking...

4 replies - 5949 views - 05/15/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

How to Create a PageBookView

Think of Properties View. It displays the properties of the selected element in the active part. Whenever the selection changes or the active part changes, it...

0 replies - 1921 views - 05/15/09 by Prakash in Articles

Aspects and a Few Language Musings

I wanted to write some code for generating events when properties on certain key entities change. Of course, we all know that there was nascent support for...

2 replies - 2470 views - 05/13/09 by Rob Williams in Articles

Pax Runner Profiles and Distributed OSGi

Last week we looked at how Pax Runner makes simple work of starting an OSGi framework (whichever one you want) and loading it up with a selection of bundles....

1 replies - 2753 views - 05/05/09 by Craig Walls in Articles

Why is OSGi Important?

I’ve seen a number of blog posts and tweets lately asking some version of the question Why is OSGi important? If you’re one of the many people looking...

8 replies - 7471 views - 05/05/09 by patrickpaulin in Articles

Nobody is Talking About The Whiteboard Pattern - Does OSGi Violate "Separation of Concerns"

I have known OSGi since Version 2 and started using it since Version 3. What made me a believer was the Service Oriented Programming model and the positive...

2 replies - 4971 views - 05/01/09 by peterhuber in News

Launching OSGi With Pax Runner

In last week's article, we saw how to go from zero to working OSGi bundles quickly using Pax Construct. We've only scratched the surface of Pax Construct and...

0 replies - 3348 views - 04/30/09 by Craig Walls in Articles

Jetty @ Eclipse - Jetty7 and Jetty8 (and Jetty6)

I have had a lot of inquiries about what is going on with the latest versions of jetty being talked about and what they mean to our users so I figured I would...

0 replies - 1211 views - 04/16/09 by jmcconnell in Articles

Simplified TableViewer for Editing Purposes

Using the JFace TableViewer for editing purposes can be rather tedious and is certainly not a job for an Eclipse beginner. The problems essentially come up...

6 replies - 1637 views - 04/16/09 by Venkataramana M in Tips and Tricks

An Introduction to Spring BlazeDS Integration

Last December, SpringSource and Adobe announced a partnership aimed at streamlining the integration between Spring and BlazeDS. This partnership has led to the...

12 replies - 49401 views - 04/02/09 by christophe coenraets in Articles

Writing an Eclipse plugin for the Wicket-Based PasteBin

Don’t get me wrong, Mystic Paste is great! However if I’m on ##wicket and someone asks a question about some code, and I know I’ve written that code, I...

0 replies - 3304 views - 04/02/09 by Craig Tataryn in Articles

Modeling is Dead. Long Live Modeling!

Although some people seem to be convinced that Eclipse and Eclipse Modeling are dead, I have been sensing quite healthy life signals of both on EclipseCon 2009...

1 replies - 1578 views - 04/01/09 by Peter Friese in Articles

Making Sense of e4

There was so much going on at EclipseCon last week that I have to admit my head is still spinning. I’m trying to get back to work, but my mind keeps turning...

0 replies - 1345 views - 04/01/09 by patrickpaulin in Articles