Eclipse

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…

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…