One issue that developers new to RCP face is whether to add UI elements programmatically or declaratively. In my experience, most initially choose the...
0 replies - 1920 views - 12/16/08 by patrickpaulin in Articles
The Eclipse Runtime enables you to create a well-formed modular architecture for Java applications. Each OSGi bundle has a unique name space and explicitly...
0 replies - 1129 views - 12/15/08 by Vitaly Mikheev in Articles
Lately I've been working on some large legacy modernization projects with MAKE's MDD tooling. These projects have upwards of 400 entities in their domain...
0 replies - 1567 views - 12/12/08 by David Green in Articles
3.5 M4 will be out soon. There are numerous bugs & enhancements that got fixed in this build. Here are my favourites:Customize perspective dialog:The...
0 replies - 1882 views - 12/11/08 by Prakash in Articles
As proposed in my last blog "Dependencies and Services in OSGI Enterprise Applications" it seems that a new blog series was started ;-)
0 replies - 2085 views - 12/09/08 by ekke in Articles
I have been working recently on the build automation of our Eclipse’s project. Manually generating pacakages was boring, not safe and time consuming...
2 replies - 1933 views - 12/05/08 by Manuel Selva in Articles
A busy week has started again:
0 replies - 2028 views - 12/04/08 by ekke in Articles
Having had a front seat to the mania that was the SWT v. Swing debate, clearly the broader question of why IBM has almost never seen fit to enhance what was in...
1 replies - 1421 views - 12/03/08 by Rob Williams in Articles
Eclipse has a Plug-in Registry view, which shows the state of all plug-ins in the running instance of Eclipse. But what if you need to analyze a crashed...
0 replies - 1443 views - 12/02/08 by nayashkova in Articles
I’ve been building software for quite a few years now and as software programming techniques have advanced, so has the number of layers. Every once in a...
0 replies - 4073 views - 12/01/08 by ggalang in Articles
I am preparing a few talks about dynamic OSGi applications. To get my hands dirty I started a little demo project to showcase different scenarios. That SWT...
13 replies - 6309 views - 11/26/08 by Kai Tödter in Articles
I thought I’d check out the Rich Ajax Platform and see how well my RCP skills carry across. My first impressions are that I’m feeling pretty much at home...
0 replies - 2943 views - 11/24/08 by ggalang in Articles
Day One was always going to be a tough act to follow, but once again I had a great day at the conference. As well as meeting even more of the community to...
2 replies - 1046 views - 11/24/08 by James Sugrue in Articles
Dave Thomas' keynote focused on the history and future of embedded devices though much of what he explained was around the fact that what we do at Eclipse...
0 replies - 943 views - 11/21/08 by merks in Articles
Some things lend themselves to TDD better than others. Code generation, it turns out, scores a 10 on this front. (To some people, it‘s heresy to think that...
2 replies - 4149 views - 11/21/08 by Rob Williams in Articles
