Eclipse 4.0: Dependency Injection and OSGi Declarative Services
In my last post I explained how easy it is to inject your own objects. For the common use case that you want to specify an interface attribute but want…
Eclipse 4.0: Inject your OWN Objects
One of the great new features of Eclipse 4.0 is the use of dependency injection (DI). The new architecture does not use Singletons at all, but injects all the necessary…
Eclipse 4.0: Automatically created Theme Switching Menu/Toolbar
Recently I took a look at Tom Schindl's great e4 SimpleIDE demo and found his implementation for an automatically created "Theme" menu. I liked it so much that I could…
New Video: Nature at Lago Maggiore
In June 2010 my family and I have spent a nice week at the "Lago Maggiore" in Italy. This short video (7 minutes) shows the beautiful architecture of our hotel…
Eclipse 4.0 RCP: Dynamic CSS Theme Switching
The css theming capabilities of the Eclipse 4.0 SDK are improving. Especially the mechanism to implement a dynamic theme switcher is much easier now. If you want to implement a…