Category Archives: Eclipse
Thoughts on JavaFX for Android and iOS
So the big news is out: Oracle will provide the sources of their Android and iOS prototypes. While I agree this is great the announcement leaves me with many questions and doubts. What Richard is telling us is that they … Continue reading
A smarter JavaFX CSS-Editor
This is just a short teaser for those using e(fx)clipse for their JavaFX development. Todays nightly build holds an extermly cool new feature. JavaFX provides many many CSS-Attributes (many more than HTML) but only very view apply for a given … Continue reading
Fed up with famfamfam icons for Eclipse.org – Let’s get Oxygen icons
Whenever I work on Eclipse.org projects, only having access to the famfamfam Silk icon-sets makes me cry. Don’t get me wrong I’m happy that we have at least those icons available but wouldn’t it be better to have a really … Continue reading
@Active in e4
Having discussed yesterday with Alex Blewitt and Lars Vogel on what @Active is I thought it might make sense to explain it in a short blog post. Let’s start with the question Alex posted on twitter: “Which is preferable; using … Continue reading
e(fx)clipse proposed to Eclipse Foundation
We’ve said since a long time that one day we’ll propose e(fx)clipse as an Eclipse Foundation project. Today we’ve published the project proposal at http://eclipse.org/proposals/technology.efxclipse/ and Wayne created a bug for it. We believe this is the next important step … Continue reading
JavaFX in Eclipse Magazin 02/2013
The Eclipse magazin has published an interview with me about JavaFX, Eclipse and e(fx)clipse. For those of you interested in JavaFX & Eclipse the next issue (2/2013) holds a lot of information on the topic: Intro: The history of JavaFX … Continue reading
e(fx)clipse 0.8.0 released
It’s been a long time since the last release (end of September 2012). I’m happy to announce that we’ve just released e(fx)clipse 0.8.0 to the public. You can download it from our server! Make sure you run your Eclipse instance … Continue reading
EMF-Edit-Support is coming to JavaFX via e(fx)clipse
One of the brand new runtime features we will provide with the next release of e(fx)clipse is EMF-Edit-Support for JavaFX so that people who use EMF as their domain technology don’t have to write code by hand when they want … Continue reading
My recommended project structure for (JavaFX) e4 projects
One of the most important things developing OSGi applications is the bundle structure and because e4 applications are by definition OSGi applications. Before looking in detail on e4 applications let’s look at how you should structure your OSGi projects in … Continue reading
Automated Eclipse Project creation and deployment (for JavaFX)
Our believe is that the best runtime techology is meaningless without proper tooling support so if you’ve ever developed an Eclipse Plug-in to allow easier adoption of a runtime technology you might have faced the same problem I’m facing with … Continue reading
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