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Inspired by a bugzilla-discussion where virtual support for the nebula grid. I thought I blog a bit about Eclipse Databinding when it comes to big datasets. The standard way used looks like this: Executing this code with the following item count shows the following figures: Object count Time to fill (in ms) 10,000 1,178 30,000 [...]

Yesterday I’ve debugged to get javaassist working with teneo which gave us headaches in the past so we simply turned it off which isn’t really a problem to us but I simply wanted to know why it didn’t worked. As very often when hibernate and OSGi meet each other this is a problem of classloading [...]

Just because I’ve been running into this today. I thought it might be interesting to others as well. The following is a shortened version of a code I’ve been using in an RCP-Application. Does someone spot the error? I guess not because from it is not visible at all without looking into the implementation of [...]

Eclipse Databinding comes with many utility classes and one of them is TitleAreaDialogSupport which can be used to show validation errors when running in an TitleAreaDialog. But the default implementation has some missing features: Once a validation error is shown the default message is not coming back when correcting them The Ok-Button does not get [...]

I’ve often seen the question in the eclipse newsgroups when it comes to view communication. People often face the problem that their views have to communicate with each other informing about state changes (selection changes are published best through ISelectionService). It looks like many people are not familiar with the OSGi-EventAdmin-Service which is a generic [...]