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Rick Hightower03/21/08
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Microsoft wants to improve Eclipse

Seems Microsoft is trying to show a kinder, gentler side to Open Source and Java development communities. In the past they made overtures to improve PHP on Windows server. They also sat down and collaborated with JBoss and now they plan on supporting...

James Sugrue03/21/08
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EclipseCon Day Four Roundup

So we've finally reached the end of EclipseCon. Today everyone will be making their way back home. EclipseCon 2008 was a great success - more technical sessions, more open source projects, more BOFs, more parties, and just plain more.  Ian Skerrett breaks...

Ratna Dinakar T...03/20/08
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Java Bean Code Generation In Eclipse

Where would we be without JavaBeans? We use them in all our basic Java applications. We have Struts Form Beans, Hibernate and Spring POJO's and the list goes on. We are all used to writing setters and getters in for our Java Bean's manually. With thanks to...

James Sugrue03/20/08
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EclipseCon Day Three Roundup

Day three at EclipseCon, and there's still no shortage of news, or people blogging about the conference.

Marcel Offermans03/19/08
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The first two days of OSGiCon at EclipseCon

After having been to the OSGi developers world conference in 2005, where I presented the dependency manager that is now part of Apache Felix, in 2008 Karl Pauls and I are back at OSGiCon which has since merged with EclipseCon and has become quite a big...

James Sugrue03/19/08
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EclipseCon Day Two Roundup

The Keynote Donald Smith has written about what seems to be a great keynote from Fake Steve Jobs (Dan Lyons) and has links to some slides that didn't make it to the final cut - so you can see the uncensored keynote.

Lynn Gayowski03/18/08
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MyTourbook - 2008 Best Open Source RCP Application

Monday at EclipseCon, the ceremony for the Eclipse Community Awards was held. The winner of the Best Open Source Eclipse RCP Application award was MyTourbook, created by Wolfgang Schramm. MyTourbook is an Eclipse application that can visualize and analyze...

James Sugrue03/18/08
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EclipseCon Day One Roundup

Day One was a busy announcement day at EclipseCon. Most of the buzz surrounded the Equinox announcement, and the Eclipse Community Award Winners.

Ian Skerrett03/18/08
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Eclipse Community Award Winners Announced

Tonight we announced the winners of the Eclipse Community Awards. The winners this year represent a great cross-section of the Eclipse community.In the individual category,

James Sugrue03/17/08
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Eclipse Equinox - Fulfilling the Promise of Write Once Run Anywhere

The major announcement this week at EclipseCon surrounds Equinox becoming a top level project.  Just before the conference I caught up with two of the leading people in the Eclipse community to discuss this announcement and what it means. Ian Skerrett is...

James Sugrue03/17/08
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Welcome to EclipseCon 2008

If you're registering at EclipseCon today, you'll be greeted with some pretty cool free stuff. As well as what you see in the image below, the conference bags also had a USB key and decoder ring. There's a cool poker game being run throughout the...

Ann Oreshnikova03/16/08
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Creating Personal Software Builds with TeamCity

Your typical day consists of writing new code, running local tests, and then integrating your changes with those of your team members.If you are going the "agile" way, you would synchronize with your team by updating your sources with the changes of...

Suresh Krishna03/15/08
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Discover Eclipse's JFace Dialogs

The JFace framework of Eclipse provides many standard and useful dialogs and a framework to build custom dialogs and wizards. When the standard dialogs seems to be too simple for your plugin or RCP developement, one can extend the standard dialogs to suit...

James Sugrue03/14/08
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EclipseZone - Your Guide To EclipseCon 2008

On Monday, EclipseCon 2008 kicks off in Santa Clara, and it looks like it's going to be the best yet. Although it kicks off on St Patrick's Day, the Irish national holiday - I'll be working hard to ensure EclipseZone has up-to-date content with all the latest...

Tomas Kramar03/14/08
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Effective Eclipse: Fix it, Quickly

You are in trouble, red lines are everywhere. There is no easy way out, so you just either start googling what went wrong, or start a copy&pasting session. If it is so smart, it can tell me that I have an error in my code, why cannot it just fix it?Let me...