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Eclipse 4.0: Dependency Injection and OSGi Declarative Services

Post author:Kai Tödter
Post published:June 28, 2010
Post category:Eclipse General Java
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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

Post author:Kai Tödter
Post published:June 25, 2010
Post category:Eclipse General Java
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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

Post author:Kai Tödter
Post published:June 22, 2010
Post category:Eclipse General Java
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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

Post author:Kai Tödter
Post published:June 18, 2010
Post category:General
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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

Post author:Kai Tödter
Post published:June 9, 2010
Post category:Eclipse General Java
Post comments:22 Comments

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

Post author:Kai Tödter
Post published:April 27, 2010
Post category:Eclipse General Java
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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

Post author:Kai Tödter
Post published:April 27, 2010
Post category:Eclipse General Java
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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

Post author:Kai Tödter
Post published:April 26, 2010
Post category:Eclipse General Java
Post comments:2 Comments

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

Post author:Kai Tödter
Post published:March 29, 2010
Post category:Eclipse General Java
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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

Post author:Kai Tödter
Post published:January 5, 2010
Post category:Eclipse General Java
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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).…