Another few weeks have passed and here is a new release of e(fx)clipse. There are not many new features but the stuff available already has been improved. Let’s look at the most important things one by one: e(fx)clipse now has reached a point where I think it deserves itsown homepage with informations on the project, [...]
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Eclipse 4.1: Run your 3.x RCP in 4.1
July 1, 2011
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So there are many 3.x-RCP application and their developers who’d like to run their RCP-Apps ontop of the Eclipse 4.1 RCP (Attention: Don’t mix this up with the Eclipse 4 Application Platform – I’ve blogged about lately). The Eclipse 4.1 RCP allows you to run your RCP applications unmodified ontop of the Eclipse 4 Application [...]
Read moreEclipse 4.1 Application Platform – A platform for anyone
June 21, 2011
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This post is dedicated to “Eclipse 4.1 Application Platform” (EAP). So what is the EAP? In short it is a Widget-Toolkit agonstic UI-Application framework for OSGi which provides the following features: An extensible central application model abstracting the main concepts of UI-Applications: UI-Concepts like Windows, Toolbars, Parts, … None-UI Concepts like Commands and Handlers, Extensions, [...]
Read moreHow to apply the e4 programming model to 3.x
June 10, 2011
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So while I could only encourage everyone to use the Eclipse 4.1 Application Platform (EAP) to write UI-applications, this post is for those who have existing 3.x code which they want to refactor step by step to run on EAP. So if you ever looked at how EAP are developed the first thing you notice [...]
Read moreUsing Xtext to create JavaFX-CSS Editor
June 9, 2011
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While working on the example application showed in my last blog I missed the possibility to edit the CSS-Files used to theme JavaFX-applications. Having heard about Xtext and that it allows one easily create editors for your DSL (and CSS is nothing more) I decided to start teaching myself some Xtext and so I sat [...]
Read moreTaking JavaFX for a spin
June 8, 2011
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So it’s been about 2 weeks ago when a JavaFX beta was released to the public and I could not resist to bring up some Windows and give it a try. First of all I’m quite impressed on the features it gives me compared to what I know from SWT and Swing. I can control [...]
Read moree4 – Fundamental Overview on the Eclipse 4 Application Platform
March 16, 2011
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In my last blog post I talked very short about the relation of XWT and the Eclipse 4 Application platform. It looks like many people are mixing things up. In this post I’ll try to give a deeper look into the Eclipse 4 Application Platform which might make even clearer why XWT is not necessarily [...]
Read moree4 – Relation between Eclipse 4.1 and XWT
March 14, 2011
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Today someone approach me and his introduction statement was that he’s interested in XWT and was told that Eclipse 4.1 is built upon XWT. I’ll restate the same I’ve stated in all of my talks: XWT is a technology developed in the e4-Incubator side by side with the Eclipse 4 Application Platform. The important thing [...]
Read moree4 – More News from ModelTooling
March 13, 2011
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Some weeks ago I’ve blogged about some new features I’ve added to the e4-ModelTooling. The soon declared 4.1M6 release will hold some more features I’d like to present to you in this blog entry. Control Finder If you are interested into which widget the rendering engine turned a specific model element into and where it [...]
Read moree4 – Use Eclipse 4.1 Application Platform but not SWT
March 2, 2011
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So the title already says what this Blog-Post is about. It will talk about the possibility to use the Eclipse 4.1 Application Platform without using SWT to develop your UI-Components. Already the initial designs of Eclipse 4.x splitted the codebase not only into Core and UI-Components but futher broke up the UI-Components in stuff into [...]
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