Frameworks

Behind The Scenes: The WireframeSketcher Plug-in

The Eclipse eco-system has proven itself to be a breeding ground for innovation. We're starting to see some top quality plugins being provided for the IDE,...

0 replies - 1637 views - 02/05/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

OSGi and Embedded Jetty

There are two approaches to working with OSGi when developing web applications : embedding OSGi into the application server, or embedding the application...

1 replies - 5907 views - 02/03/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles

Happy Birthday to the Eclipse Foundation

This week the Eclipse Foundation celebrated it's fifth year in existence. We’re all pretty familiar with Eclipse as an IDE, a platform, or a set of...

0 replies - 1450 views - 01/30/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Top 10 Mistakes in Eclipse Plugin Development

Having trained a lot of new comers to the Eclipse plug-in development, I've seen certain common mistakes repeated all the time. I've tried to compile a top 10...

1 replies - 3159 views - 01/29/09 by Prakash in Articles

Eclipse Modelling Framework: Q&A With the Authors

This week at EclipseZone has been all about EMF, with the launch of the refcard, a review of the new EMF book and today we meet the four authors behind the...

2 replies - 2044 views - 01/28/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

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...

0 replies - 1959 views - 01/28/09 by Wayne Beaton in News

Invoking Web Services in a Way That Works

In this post I will explain how to invoke Web Services from within Eclipse. Just to be clear, I'm not discussing a full blown networking application. For that...

8 replies - 2050 views - 01/26/09 by Zviki Cohen in Articles

EMF Refcard Released - Meet The Authors

Today, DZone releases the Eclipse Modelling Framework Refcard, with all you need to get started using EMF, the most popular framework among Eclipse users and...

1 replies - 6672 views - 01/26/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Jeff McAffer Discusses the EclipseCon 2009 Runtime Track

Jeff McAffer dropped by the Eclipse Foundation’s Ottawa office on Monday to chat with me about the Runtime Track at EclipseCon 2009.

0 replies - 685 views - 01/23/09 by Wayne Beaton in Articles

How to Enable Templates in a Custom Editor

The template feature is one of the most used features in Eclipse editors, providing auto-completion for the code syntax. When you type “for” in the Java...

0 replies - 2121 views - 01/22/09 by rajeshk21 in Articles

Plans for 2009

A new year brings new projects and new plans for marketing at Eclipse. I thought it would be useful to let the community know some of our plans for 2009. Of...

1 replies - 1990 views - 01/21/09 by Ian Skerrett in Articles

Eclipse Slideshow

I briefly mentioned some presentation software I’ve been working on on-and-off for a while a few postings back. Eclipse Slideshow has gotten to the point...

0 replies - 1503 views - 01/20/09 by Wayne Beaton in Articles

Mike Squillace and Accessibility in Eclipse

In this podcast (15:21), Mike Squillace, co-Technical Lead for the ACTF project discusses his EclipseCon 2009 Main stage presentation, Eclipse for All: Doing...

0 replies - 770 views - 01/15/09 by Wayne Beaton in Articles

Disable or Enable ActionSets on Perspective Change in an Eclipse RCP Application

Here is the challenge: I would like to enable or disable some action-sets according to the perspective the user activates. This should be done through a...

0 replies - 4098 views - 01/14/09 by dmissoh in Articles

Eclipse Plug-ins: An Interview With the Authors

The book, Eclipse Plug-ins, just released its third edition. It’s guaranteed to be a big seller among Eclipse developers and those looking to get into...

1 replies - 1889 views - 01/14/09 by James Sugrue in Articles