Category Archives: Other

Eclipse Extended Contribution Pattern

Posted on November 16, 2021 by Dirk Fauth

Working in the Panorama project, we developed several architectures and designs to improve the collaboration of heterogeneous systems. Although focused on automotive and the aerospace scope, several topics are useful in general, like for example the pipelining of model processing services … Continue reading →

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Configuring OSGi Declarative Services

Posted on September 26, 2016 by Dirk Fauth

In my blog post about Getting Started with OSGi Declarative Services I provided an introduction to OSGi declarative services. How to create them, how they behave at runtime, how to reference other services, and so on. But I left out … Continue reading →

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Kudos to Tony McCrary for his Eclipse JDT icon work

Posted on April 28, 2015 by Lars Vogel

Tony McCrary continues his awesome icon contributions. This time he managed to re-create the JDT icon set so that the JDT icon look good on a dark background. This work started in January 2014 (!!!) and as the JDT developer … Continue reading →

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Welcome Andrey Loskutov as a new eclipse.platform.ui Committer

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Lars Vogel

I would like to welcome Andrey as new platform.ui committer. Andrey is a very active Eclipse tools developer who maintain popular Eclipse tools like the Eclipse Findbugs plug-in and AnyEdit. And now is is already the second most active developer … Continue reading →

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Eclipse Hackathon Hamburg, January, 23rd 2015

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Simon Scholz

We like to announce this coming Eclipse event again, since this is such a great Eclipse community event. So please don’t miss the change to be a part of it. In Hamburg and its surroundings there are so many Eclipse … Continue reading →

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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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New book: Contributing to the Eclipse project: Principles, Plug-ins and Gerrit Code Review

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Lars Vogel

Frequently I get the feedback that the process of contributing to the Eclipse Open Source project is difficult to get for new contributors. To help with this process I described the process in a new book Amazon.com link Amazon.de link … Continue reading →

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