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Friday I got a mail from JavaOne saying that also my BOF Eclipse RCP vs. NetBeans Platform got accepted :). I will do the BOF together with Geertjan Wielenga from…

I am very happy that my session "The NetBeans Platform Compared to the Eclipse Rich Client Platform" got accepted at this year's JavaOne conference. This time I will give the…

Yesterday I gave a 2-hour tutorial about "Advanced Eclipse RCP" at the EclipseCon 2008 in Santa Clara. You can download the tutorial slides here (2.8 MB). All the source code…

People often ask me how to dynamically change the language in an Eclipe RCP application. I tried it out myselft and have to admit that it is not as easy…

I have added two new projects for my Eclipse RCP demo application MP3 Manager: com.siemens.ct.mp3m.ui.editors.id3.databinding: This editor is very similar compared with the com.siemens.ct.mp3m.ui.editors.id3 editor but uses rudimentary Eclipse data…

I am very happy that my tutorial "Advanced Eclipse RCP" got accepted for EclipseCon 2008!

I am a big fan of Eclipse RCP. But as a software engineer, it is always a good idea to know more than one platform. Since almost one year I…

MP3 Manager is a little project that I use as a playground for Eclipse RCP features. The whole purpose of it is to share information and best practices, how things…

I am a big fan of both, OSGi and Eclipse RCP. In terms of flexible modular architecture I prefer to use "Import-Package" rather than "Require-Bundle". However, probably due to historical…