Author Archives: Tom Schindl
e4 – Fundamental Overview on the Eclipse 4 Application Platform
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 … Continue reading
e4 – Relation between Eclipse 4.1 and XWT
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 … Continue reading
e4 – More News from ModelTooling
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 … Continue reading
Europe rules at the Eclipse Individual Awards
Looking at finalists of the individual awards finalists it looks like Europe rules (9 finalists, 7 from europe, 2 canada – I counted Boris for Canada). I’m delighted to be part of the final nominies once more [see 2009 1,2] … Continue reading
e4 – Use Eclipse 4.1 Application Platform but not SWT
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 … Continue reading
e4 – News from ModelTooling
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 … Continue reading
Enhanced RCP: Reuse of WritableList in JFace-Viewers
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 … Continue reading
Enhanced RCP: How views can communicate – The e4 way
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 … Continue reading
Subversion + Certificates + Java > 1.6u17
I’ve blogged a long time ago about my problems with Subversion + Certificates and Java with a version higher than u17. Today the author of SVNKit added a comment to the ticket talking about the problem. The solution is so … Continue reading
QxWT: Find out API changes between Qooxdoo-Releases
While trying to update my qooxdoo wrapper to 1.3. I had the problem that I could find out easily which classes, methods and properties have been added/remove between e.g. 1.2 and 1.3 so that I could adjust my GWT-Wrappers. This … Continue reading
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