Category Archives: Eclipse

Article about e4 online

Back in March Boris Bokowski and myself wrote an article about the e4 workbench model. The article has now been published online (it is written in German but probably google-translate at least gives others an idea what we are talking … Continue reading

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ESE 2010, e4 and my submissions

The submission deadline for ESE 2010 is over and there are many many submission. Let me first of all talk about my submissions: Adopt the e4 progamming model in Eclipse >= 3.6 This talk discusses how you can make single … Continue reading

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Eclipse 4.0 – So you can theme me Part 1

One of the nice things of Eclipse 4.0 is that you can change its Look & Feel using CSS. In this blog post you’ll learn how you can write your own theme and use it in our workbench. The Eclipse … Continue reading

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

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

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

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

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

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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News from the Nebula

I’ve planned to write up a blog post up new cool Nebula-Features since some time but failed because of time constraints (e4 has been my main focus). Any ways there’s not only cool stuff happening at e4. So this blog … Continue reading

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e4 – A forward compat layer

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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