Eclipse

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…

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…

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…

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 :)

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…

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).…

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,…

A very common use case in a domain specific RCP app is to update itself using p2. When deploying this app, it would be very convenient if a list of…