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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…

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…

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…