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 [...]
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My RCP-Self-Update is not working
May 18, 2011
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Not sure how many people have been running into this problem but because it happened to one of my coworkers today I thought I should blog about it. The problem was the following: We added the p2-update possibility to an application at the end of our product development like it is shown in the cloud [...]
Read moreEclipse-TFS-Plugin and ignoring files
May 12, 2011
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I have the pleasure to work with Microsofts Team Foundation Server (TFS) and the Eclipse Plugin provided by them (former known as Teamprise). I won’t talk about how bad it feels to work with TFS compared to Subversion and even CVS because of the good tooling integration into Eclipse – not to talk if you [...]
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 [...]
Read moree4 – 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: Reuse of WritableList in JFace-Viewers
February 15, 2011
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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