Author Archives: Joshua Barkovic

About Joshua Barkovic

I am a fourth year Software Engineering student at McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario, Canada.

Eclipse now runs on Wayland

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Joshua Barkovic

As the end of GSoC 2014 approaches, I can now say that Eclipse successfully starts in Weston. Some things look a little bit strange and I’m sure there are more bugs to work out, but for now the majority of … Continue reading →

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Initial Wayland Support From SWT

Posted on July 11, 2014 by Joshua Barkovic

  Yes that’s correct, as of this week, newly built programs using the Standard Widget Toolkit will now display in Weston, the reference Wayland compositor.

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Working with the JNI side of SWT

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Joshua Barkovic

The JNI (Java Native Interface) is a way to link a Java program, running in the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) with a native program. This can have many uses, one of which is the ability to utilize platform-optimized code in … Continue reading →

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Google Summer of Code – Wayland SWT Port

Posted on June 7, 2014 by Joshua Barkovic

At this point I would like to introduce myself, my name is Joshua Barkovic and I am currently participating in the Google Summer of Code 2014 program with the Eclipse Foundation. I am working with the SWT team specifically and … Continue reading →

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Getting Started with SWT Development

Posted on January 12, 2014 by Joshua Barkovic

For fist time contributors to Open Source projects the initial set up of the development environment can be an intimidating prospect as every project works a little bit differently. Thankfully there are many guides out there to help with this … Continue reading →

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