Author: Kai Tödter

When it comes to databinding, a very common use case is to decorate form fields with little markers that indicate the state of the control. The following example explains how…

I am very happy that my "Advanced Eclipse Rich Client Platform Tutorial" (together with Ben Pasero), my little "e4 RCP CSS Styling Demo", and also the tutorial "RCP Mail 2.0:…

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 works very well…

Based on the work of Tom, Boris, Kevin, Angelo and many others, I started a little e4 demo, playing around with Angelo's Tk-UI css engine to style SWT. Here is…

I just returned from JAOO 2008, a developer conference held in Aarhus, Denmark. Jaoo is one of my favorite conferences, and this year it was as great as the years…

I am a bit frustrated right now. Last week I installed Eclipse 3.4 and I thought, now it is a good time to give Subversive a try, since it is…

I finally could create the mail demo RCP app using p2 to update itself! My environment is Windows Vista, Java 6, Eclipse 3.4 RC4. Here are the steps that describe…

One of my open action items for my MP3 Manager RCP Demo was to provide a headless build. It tried out PDE Build once and it worked great, but I…

With every new 3.4 RC I try to p2-enable the mail demo application. I got many valuable tips from Pascal and I think, I am getting closer but I am…

Last weekend I met with Geertjan from the NetBeans team and we had an interesting discussion about OSGi, the NetBeans module system and JSR 277. Geertjan showed me a blog…