Category Archives: e4

A week at e4 – Share me please

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Tom Schindl

In fact it’s been 2 weeks since my last blog entry about the progress that’s been made in e4. So what has happened in this 2 weeks: Conferences Kai Tödter and Boris Bokowski presented e4 at Jax2010 in Mainz. It … Continue reading →

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A week at e4 – Themeing in e4

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Tom Schindl

Core Work-Items Themeing in e4 is done using CSS like Declarative Syntax. The latest nightly builds introduce an extension point which allows people to define and contribute CSS-Files to make up a theme from different css-Files. So now plugin-developers can … Continue reading →

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A week at e4 – Branch, Tweak, Break and Adjust

Posted on April 17, 2010 by Tom Schindl

Today I thought it would nice to do a summary about the things happing at e4 I’m part of. The headline for this week could be: “Branch, Tweak, Break and Adjust – Lock the e4-Workbench-Model so that people won’t be … Continue reading →

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e4 – Tooling WorkbenchModelEditor part of I-Builds

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Tom Schindl

Starting with yesterdays I-Builds (starting with I20100317-1055) the first part of the upcoming tooling support for e4 is part of the e4-SDK. I this blog post I’ll discuss some of the features this first version is coming with and how … Continue reading →

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e4 – Workbench (Model) Tooling

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Tom Schindl

I’ve started to work on some tooling to make e4 consumable for the average developer. The first thing I’m concentrating on is tooling for the workbench model. The key points are: Run in 3.x Run native in e4-Workbench (without the … Continue reading →

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e4 – Dependency and Service Lookup Tooling

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Tom Schindl

Today I extended my current implementation a bit so that I now extract the currently injected fields in a class and display them in the dialog one can open from within the JavaEditor. The following videos present shows this in … Continue reading →

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e4 – Dependency Injection Tooling

Posted on February 21, 2010 by Tom Schindl

In bug 302824 we started discussing how to make the use of DI easier and beside e.g. providing Helper-Classes the ideal thing would be to provide good tooling. Think about how hard OSGi-Development would be without PDE and I think … Continue reading →

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e4 – Extending an existing Product

Posted on February 14, 2010 by Tom Schindl

After some months of not having contributed substential stuff to e4 and in anticipation of the EclipseCon tutorial “e4 – Anatomy of an e4-Application”. I worked yesterday on some demo stuff which we’ll probably use show the audience: The new … Continue reading →

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e4 – why you don’t need e5

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Tom Schindl

This was orginally a reply on Elias post on e5: On “should take risks”: We agreed that e4 would be compatible with 3.x. Is not 100% correct: We agreed on the fact that e4 will provide a compat layer so … Continue reading →

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e4@JUGS

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Tom Schindl

Yesterday I presented e4 to members of the JavaUserGroup Schweiz. There’ve been 80+ people (I was told that this was the highest number of participants ever taken part in Special Interest Group talk). I’d like to thank Edwin Steiner from … Continue reading →

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