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…
Planet Eclipse Test
After upgrading to WordPress 2.9.2, my Eclipse related blogs did not appear at Planet Eclipse anymore. If you see this post at Planet Eclipse, then it is working again :)
JAX 2010 Conference
Next week JAX 2010 starts in Mainz, Germany. As always, the program is great and there are many Eclipse and OSGi related sessions. This year I give two sessions: OSGi-Service-Komponentenmodelle…
EclipseCon 2010 Feedback
I would like to thank everyone who attended my sessions at EclipseCon for the feedback. The bucket-feedback was (+1/0/-1): Advanced Eclipse Rich Client Platform (together with Ben Pasero): 51/9/0 What's…
MP3 Manager: Version 3.5.2 released
Just to adopt the latest service release (and for my EclipseCon tutorial), my MP3 Manager Eclipse RCP demo is now based on Eclipse 3.5.2. Compared to version 3.5.1 there is…
Eclipse @ OOP 2010
As every year, I am looking forward to one of my favorite conferences about software architecture and other interesting stuff, the OOP 2010 (January 25th - 29th in Munich, Germany).…
e4: Animated Splash Screen Experiment
Recently I started playing around with the great Trident animation library (by Kirill Grouchnikov). Boris Bokowski was so kind to provide a bundle-fied version of Trident in the e4 repository,…