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Equinox Refcard Now Available - An Interview With Jeff McAffer

DZone today launched the Equinox Refcard, covering everything that you need to know to get started on writing OSGi bundles for Equinox, Eclipse's OSGi...

0 replies - 5257 views - 01/12/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Open Source : How Do You Stay Up To Date?

I Love the concepts and beliefs behind Open Source. I use Open Source libraries, applications etc. all the time. One of the things I have always found a...

18 replies - 11162 views - 01/10/09 by Schalk Neethling in News

p2 Tip of the Week: How Do I Get My Feature Branding Back?

You may have noticed that feature brandings disappear if you get rid of all the update manager stuff and just use p2 (version 3.4.1). The solution to get the...

0 replies - 763 views - 01/09/09 by Kai Tödter in Tips and Tricks

Commands Part 2: Selection and Enablement of IHandlers

In the last tip, we saw that a Handler can be declared separately from a Command. This enables for multiple handler declarations for the same command. We can...

0 replies - 1623 views - 01/08/09 by Prakash in Articles

My Technology Resolutions for 2009

It's that time of year where I try to decide what technologies I'm going to focus on for the next few months, a developer's new year resolutions. 2008 was a...

2 replies - 3295 views - 01/06/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Commands Part 1: Actions Vs Commands

As you would have seen, there are two different ways to contributing to the Workbench: Actions and Commands. Although Commands are newer and advanced, I've...

0 replies - 1714 views - 01/05/09 by Prakash in Articles

On Collecting Ideas for a Simplified Data Binding API

In my previous entry, I referred to Kai's blog where various community members wished for a simpler data binding API and asked for comments. This blog is...

0 replies - 1333 views - 12/29/08 by David Orme in Articles

Eclipse Databinding + Validation + Decoration

When it comes to databinding, a very common use case is to decorate form fields with little markers that indicate the state of the control. The following...

0 replies - 3286 views - 12/28/08 by Kai Tödter in Articles

From Persistency Questions To EMF. Part 2

Today I had to add one attribute to my persistent filters describe in this previous post. Thanks to EMF I just added a new getter method in my filter interface...

0 replies - 1062 views - 12/23/08 by Manuel Selva in Tips and Tricks

EclipseZone's Top 10 Articles of 2008

As is the habit at this time of year, I'd like to take some time to look back on how the year has been for EclipseZone and to consider what we'll be doing in...

1 replies - 4928 views - 12/22/08 by James Sugrue in Articles

Making Music With Eclipse RCP

I’m always on the lookout for Eclipse Rich Client Platform applications that push boundaries. RCP is much too often associated with the Eclipse IDE itself,...

0 replies - 1655 views - 12/19/08 by patrickpaulin in Articles

From Persistency Questions To EMF …

This week I finally decided to step in EMF. 2 years after starting Eclipse development …. French people will say here “Mieux vaut tard que jamais“Here is...

0 replies - 1170 views - 12/19/08 by Manuel Selva in News

ListenerList - a Better Way to Manage Your Event Listeners

You have published a listener interface and have a place where your clients register their listeners. There you typically code like this:

4 replies - 2205 views - 12/18/08 by Prakash in Articles

Project Jigsaw - Putting Together the Pieces for Java 7

When I read about Project Jigsaw recently, the resurrection of the plan to modularize the JDK and follow OSGi I was between two minds about it. But the main...

3 replies - 4140 views - 12/17/08 by James Sugrue in Articles

Getting to Know EBERT

The Eclipse Examples Project has a 0.1 release review scheduled for next Tuesday (December 23). For this review, there are two components: The Eclipse Business...

0 replies - 1179 views - 12/17/08 by Wayne Beaton in Articles