Author Archives: Tom Schindl

Slides and Source from Munich DemoCamp on Java9

I’ve pushed the slides and source-code I used for my short introduction at the Munich Eclipse Democamp Democamp – Munich – Java9 from Tom Schindl

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e(fx)clipse 2.4.0 released

we are happy to announce that e(fx)clipse 2.4.0 has been released last week. The main working area in this release has once more been the code editor framework. Code editor framework Starting with this release we are have replacement for … Continue reading

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e(fx)clipse 2.3.0 released

Right for EclipseConNA 2016 next week we released e(fx)clipse 2.3.0. This release mainly provides features in the runtime layer. Where to get it from If you are interested in the Tooling you can: Install it into a 4.5.2 install using … Continue reading

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Using TypeScript LanguageService to build an JS/TypeScript IDE in Java

Yesterday I blogged about my endeavors into loading and using the TypeScript Language Service (V8 and Nashorn) and calling it from Java to get things like an outline, auto-completions, … . Today I connected these headless pieces to my JavaFX-Editor-Framework. … Continue reading

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JavaScript Performance V8 vs Nashorn (for Typescript Language Service)

On the weekend I’ve worked on my API to interface with the Typescript language service from my Java code. While the initial version I developed some months ago used the “tsserver” to communicate with the LanguageService I decided to rewrite … Continue reading

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Why I think @UIEventTopic / @EventTopic have been a bad idea

I’ve been working on a document since some time who holds my thoughts on the future direction of Eclipse 4 or better the Eclipse 4 Application Platform. At first I’d like to mention that these as my personal views, not … Continue reading

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e(fx)clipse 2.2.0 – Typesafe EventBus

With e(fx)clipse we ship as part of our core-bundle (the one able to run in any OSGi and Plain-Java-Env) since 2.1 an org.eclipse.fx.core.event.EventBus which we enhanced in 2.2.0 to provide a certain level of typesafety. Useage is straight forward: Define … Continue reading

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e(fx)clipse 2.2.0 – Maximize an UI-Component

I think allowing to maximize a certain UI-Element in your e4 on JavaFX application has been the most demanded features missing for e4 on JavaFX. e(fx)clipse 2.2.0 adds support to maximize an UI-Element as shown in the following video: All … Continue reading

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e(fx)clipse 2.2.0 – New features overview

This blog post collects all new and shiny features provided with the e(fx)clipse 2.2.0 release which will be released on December 11th 2015. Loading Media files from OSGi-Bundles e(fx)clipse 2.2.0 – Maximize an UI-Component

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e(fx)clipse 2.2.0 – Loading Media files from OSGi-Bundles – sponsored by 360T

As JavaFX is not only a UI-Toolkit but also provides a “fullblow” multimedia stack you can play sound files and videos without residing to other APIs/Libraries. Unfortunately you can not feed any URL into it. Only the following protocols are … Continue reading

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