Author Archives: Tom Schindl

Eclipse 4.1 Application Platform – A platform for anyone

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Tom Schindl

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in e4 | 8 Comments

How to apply the e4 programming model to 3.x

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Tom Schindl

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. … Continue reading →

Posted in 3.x, e4, Enhanced RCP | 8 Comments

Using Xtext to create JavaFX-CSS Editor

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Tom Schindl

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in e(fx)clipse, e4, Eclipse | 5 Comments

Taking JavaFX for a spin

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Tom Schindl

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in e(fx)clipse, e4, Eclipse | 23 Comments

My RCP-Self-Update is not working

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Tom Schindl

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 … Continue reading →

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Eclipse-TFS-Plugin and ignoring files

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Tom Schindl

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 … Continue reading →

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Jax 2011: EMF-Databinding talk

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Tom Schindl

I had the pleasure to present EMF-Databinding to interested people on the Model Day at Jax 2011. I’m desperately sorry that people have been unable to install my sources but there has been a misunderstanding I’ll apologize for. Everyone who … Continue reading →

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Interesting new feature in EMF-Databinding

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Tom Schindl

I’ve invested sometime into EMF-Databinding to add a new quite interesting feature i guess. Currently we have to problem that if your nested path crosses a multi-valued feature (=java.util.List) at some point the only solution today is to create a … Continue reading →

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EclipseCon2011: Day one and I’m done

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Tom Schindl

Yeah. Day one is over (at least all my presentations are done) and I’m ready to enjoy EclipseCon in the next 3 days because I’ve no more talks this week. I think the talks I’ve delivered today have been received … Continue reading →

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Equinox, Hibernate and Concurrency

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Tom Schindl

I’ve been hunting a deadlock in an application of a customer we support with our RCP, EMF and OSGi know-how and turned out be a class-loader problem because Hibernate uses Class.forName(). The application is a pure OSGi-Application acting as an … Continue reading →

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