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I am a big fan of both OSGi and GWT (Google Web Toolkit). Unfortunately these two technologies don't fit together very well. When you want to run OSGi on the…

Since I am very interested in mobile platforms like Android, iOS, etc. I decided to add a mobile theme to my WordPress based blog. After playing around with different options…

In one of my previous posts I had some issues to get the headless 3.6.x PDE build running for a few of my RCP projects. But I quickly got many…

If you are using the feature org.eclipse.equinox.p2.user.ui in your RCP product to include the p2 update mechanism in your application, or if you just use p2 internally, you might run…

Yesterday I decided to update the headless builds for several of my Eclipse RCP based projects to Eclipse 3.6.1. No big deal, I thought. I did this several times in…

Summer is almost over, I had a great vacation with my family. Now I am looking forward to the upcoming events to talk about e4 (Eclipse 4.0 RCP respectively). The…

Eclipse 4.0 brought a great new feature: Theming RCP applications with CSS. Another good news is, this cool feature can also be used with RCP 3.x based applications. The following…

Yesterday I discovered Flattr, a new micro payment cloud service that went to open beta recently. I have to admit, I really like the idea of Flattr: Spend a fixed…

One of the objectives of Eclipse 4.0 was to make rich client development easier. One good example is the following use case: One view provides a selection (e.g. using a…

Today a updated my dynamic OSGi demo (see screenshot below),  in particular: the extender bundle. The extender pattern is a frequently used pattern in the OSGi world. The idea is…