Category Archives: e4

Eclipse 4.0 and tutorial on writing e4-RCP-application released

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Tom Schindl

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 … Continue reading →

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Writing RCP Applications with e4

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Tom Schindl

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 … Continue reading →

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e4 – Some more news from the modeltooling

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Tom Schindl

Fragment Tooling As you might see with the number of posts. I’ve been hacking a lot my ModelTooling-Editor and so after having talked about the latest features 3 days ago, I have some more news today. I’ve spend half of … Continue reading →

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e4 – News from the model tooling

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Tom Schindl

I’ve been busy working on my model editor and some wizards to create Java-Classes for our new programming model. New features in the model editor New Drag&Drop Support in the Left Tree: You can now drag around items in the … Continue reading →

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Workbench Model Tooling

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Tom Schindl

While traveling by train to Vienna and back I had time to invest some time into the workbench tooling and I think I added some nice and helpful things. “Live” Model Inspection: The first and most important feature is that … Continue reading →

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e4 – A forward compat layer

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Tom Schindl

In my last post I started explaining how one can write a so called forward compat layer for a custom application. In the blog post I’ll present the first available bits of such a layer provided as part of the … Continue reading →

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The Simple e4 IDE

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Tom Schindl

This is just a short update on my Simple e4 IDE Demo. Last week I reimplemented the Outline View concept of the Eclipse IDE and ported over the JavaOutlinePage from JDT. It currently lacks selection support to jump to places … Continue reading →

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Installing Eclipse Translate View

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Tom Schindl

I’ve just added an update-site to install Translation View into your Workbench. All you need to do is to add 2 update-sites: E4 M6 Update-Site: http://download.eclipse.org/e4/sdk/drops/S-4.0M6-201005231612/repository Translator Update-Site: http://svn.codespot.com/a/eclipselabs.org/eclipse-translator-view/trunk/releng/at.bestsolution.translate.updatesite/ After having successfully installed you should see a new category in … Continue reading →

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e4 – Use e4-DI in 3.x

Posted on May 29, 2010 by Tom Schindl

When talking about single sourceing in terms of e4 we talk about the following: Write for e4 and run in e4-Applications, Eclipse 4.0 SDK and Eclipse 3.x SDK In the first part of the series we are going to get … Continue reading →

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A week at e4 – A new milestone

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Tom Schindl

Core and Compat-Layer The work done last week was fixing the most important problems before signing of M6 this weekend, so not too many great new features have been developed but the ones already availabled got polished and improved. The … Continue reading →

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