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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e4 – News from ModelTooling
February 20, 2011
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It’s been a very long time since I’ve blogged about my work on the e4 model tooling front but this does not mean nothing happened. I think I have some interesting news to share on features I’ve implemented: Edit/View XMI-File Beside editing the Application model using the form based ui the editor now allows you [...]
Read moreEnhanced RCP: How views can communicate – The e4 way
February 7, 2011
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Some weeks ago I published how views can communicate using the EventAdmin-Service. To get things working in an 3.x application one has to write some glue code but more importantly one has to know about all those nifty things about event publishing, getting access to OSGi-Services, … . One of the main topics of the [...]
Read moreSlides from my latest Talks
November 26, 2010
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I’ve been given some talks about Eclipse 4.0/4.1 lately. For those interested here are the slides: ESE 2010 – “The way to Eclipse 4.0 and 4.1″ together with Boris Bokowski ESE 2010 – “Adopt the e4 progamming model in Eclipse >= 3.6″ DemoCamp Munich 2010 – “On Eclipse 4.0 and 4.1″
Read moreNavigating/Querying EMF-Models using XPath
October 8, 2010
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To make the new e4 way of building a complete model from small model pieces – named fragments – more flexible in 4.1, I’ve been developing a JXPath extension which works ontop of the reflective EMF-API. I know that there’s already the possibility to query models using OCL but there are many more people familiar [...]
Read moreArticle about e4 online
September 9, 2010
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Back in March Boris Bokowski and myself wrote an article about the e4 workbench model. The article has now been published online (it is written in German but probably google-translate at least gives others an idea what we are talking about).
Read moreESE 2010, e4 and my submissions
August 18, 2010
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The submission deadline for ESE 2010 is over and there are many many submission. Let me first of all talk about my submissions: Adopt the e4 progamming model in Eclipse >= 3.6 This talk discusses how you can make single sourcing for Eclipse 4.0 and Eclipse 3.6 happen without the use of backwards compat layer [...]
Read moreEclipse 4.0 – So you can theme me Part 1
August 5, 2010
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One of the nice things of Eclipse 4.0 is that you can change its Look & Feel using CSS. In this blog post you’ll learn how you can write your own theme and use it in our workbench. The Eclipse 4.0 SDK comes along with 3 themes (on WinXP with 4 and Win7 with 5): [...]
Read moreEclipse 4.0 and tutorial on writing e4-RCP-application released
July 28, 2010
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The Release The e4-Team just announced the availability of the Eclipse 4.0 SDK “Early Adopter Release” (Reviewslides) which marks a major platform update since the inception of 3.0 6 years ago. Just to reiterate what the 4.0 SDK is and to set expectations right. The 4.0 SDK is marked as an “Early adopter release” targeted [...]
Read moreWriting RCP Applications with e4
July 26, 2010
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Now the 4.0 release is approaching very fast and I’ve been working full(free)time on an extended tutorial writing an e4-RCP-Applications. The whole tutorial is centered around an exemplary Mail-Application I’ll release the tutorial and the whole source on the day we release the 4.0 SDK so if all works out as we expect and you [...]
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