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Ian Skerrett03/06/09
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Eclipse and Open Source in the Real World

The best thing about the Eclipse Community Awards is discovering new and interesting ways Eclipse and open source technology is being used to solve interesting real world problems. For instance,

Ivo Wever03/05/09
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Writing good code requires you to perform experiments

How often do you have to solve a small problem that is a part of a larger project and decide to take the time to perform some seperate experiments to solve the problem, before adding the partial solution to the whole? In the past, I hardly ever did that and...

Patrick Paulin03/04/09
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Video and Eclipse

For an upcoming project I need to be able to show Flash videos inside of an RCP application. Java has never been known for its multimedia functionality so I didn’t have very high hopes.

Nitin Bharti03/03/09
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The Eclipse Java Persistence Platform: EclipseLink’s Full Monty

The announcement of Eclipse’s Java Persistence Platform project signals the inauguration of a new generation of persistence in which all of the dominant...

Manuel Selva03/03/09
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Headless Build - Final Step

Last week was a release week for our product. Thus I decided to complete my headless build with integration of the Unit Tests. Using this article I quickly got my Unit Tests integrated in my build. Fine !!!!

Adam Lieber02/27/09
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Jetty @ Eclipse Updates

As avid users of jetty are bound to have caught wind of, jetty7 is in the process of migrating to the Eclipse Foundation as a component of the Eclipse Runtime. We even already have our own happy little news group which we need to get into the habit of...

James Sugrue02/26/09
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Preparing a New Generation of Developers

Recently, Microsoft unveiled their Elevate America initiative. The idea behind the site is simple - provide resources to help workers in the US gain technical skills to help their jobseeking efforts. As well as helping expand skills, including the basics, it...

Kirk Knoernschild02/26/09
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On SOLID Principles & Modularity

I stumbled across Uncle Bob’s SOLID principles of OOD quite a few years ago. They serve as the foundation of knowledge for designing object-oriented software.

Christopher Brind02/25/09
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An OSGi Primer

For the benefit of those who don't know what OSGi actually is, I wrote an article on my blog, which I am reproducing here, mainly because I see this question asked quite a lot. Most articles already assume that people know what OSGi is, but all I assume is...

Christopher Steiner02/25/09
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How to Stay Technically Ahead?

In the software development industry, it is crucial for a software developer to keep their skills up to date. It concerns me however the amount of developers I find that do not invest in their knowledge portfolio (Dave Thomas from the Pragmatic Programmer)....

Adam Pohorecki02/24/09
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The future of Java build tools

With a short post on dzone Adam Bien revived an old flame-war: should we use Ant or Maven as our build tool. The post itself seems a little biased on the maven side, but not much. The only really questionable sentence is:

Ian Skerrett02/24/09
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Finals Days to Vote for the Eclipse Community Awards

This Friday, February 27 at 5pmET is the deadline to vote for the individuals in the Eclipse Community Awards. If you haven’t already voted, now is the time to vote for the individuals that you think deserves special recognition for the extra effort they...

Zviki Cohen02/23/09
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Analyzing Eclipse Update Site Traffic with AWStats

Knowledge is Power. I don't think it is necessary to explain why having some analysis of your sites' visitors is important. As a software vendor, it is crucial to understand how many people download the software from your site.

Viral Patel02/23/09
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Creating JavaServer Faces Applications in Eclipse

In this article we will investigate how to create a simple application using JavaServer Faces (JSF) framework in the Eclipse IDE. First let us see what are the tools required to create our Hello World JSF application.

Kirk Knoernschild02/20/09
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A Recap on OSGi - Why and How?

Over the past several months, I’ve written quite a few blog entries about OSGi. Here’s a recap of those entries. If you’re not familar with OSGi, the posts under How OSGi might be of interest. If you’re familar with OSGi, but aren’t clear how it can...