About Me

This is my personal blog about/on opensource stuff I’m working on in my company and in my spare time. My name is Tom Schindl and I’m one of the owners a small software company in Austria, Central Europe. May day job is to develop enterprise Java software using Java, OSGi and Eclipse-Technologies as well as Java webtechnologies like spring, struts, jboss and hibernate.

Since about 3 years I’m part of the eclipse-developer community:

• Platform UI-Committer mainly working on JFace
• E4-Committer
• EMF-Committer working on the Eclipse-Databinding implementation
• Orbit-Committer
• UFaceKit Projectlead
• Nebula-Co-Project lead

I’m also delivering talks about various Eclipse-Technologies on different conferences:

• EclipseCon 08
  • Advanced User Interface Programming Using the Rich Client Platform
• Eclipse Summit Europe 08
  • E4-Symposia
  • E4 – The model workbench – The current design state
  • Writing Datacentric applications with RCP+EMF+Databinding
• EclipseCon 09
  • UFaceKit – A highlevel Databinding and Widget-Toolkit-Abstraction
  • Mixing Eclipse Technologies to create Enterprise Ready Database-RCP-Frontends
  • The Modeled UI in Eclipse e4
  • Beyond Native Table/Tree – Unique Features provided by Nebula-Grid
• EADD 09
  • The Modeled UI in Eclipse e4
• ESE 09
  • EMF Tutorial
  • E4 Symposia
  • What’s in E4
  • e4 in Detail – The model workbench and it’s possibilities
  • UFaceKit – A uniform UI development model for different UI and Runtime platforms
• Eclipse Democamp 2009 in Vienna
• Eclipse Democamp 2009 in Hamburg (Slides presented by Jochen because of traveling problems)
• JUG Swiss
• EclipseCon 2010
  • Anatomy of an e4-Application (With Kai Tödter and Lars Vogel)
• JAX 2010
  • EMF-Databinding

If you need help to introduce Eclipse-Technologies you can contact me and my company.