Category Archives: Eclipse
Exploring new technologies part of Ganymede-Release Train
I took myself some time the last days exploring new technologies available with Ganymede 3.4: Eclipse-Databinding and its new features EMF-Databinding (Provisional but working very smoothly) Teneo: Persist your model via hibernate in a SQL-Database CDO: Share your model between … Continue reading
Writing a CTreeCombo-Widget
I was working on my example RCP/EMF/Databinding application I’m going to use to present various parts of those technologies to my co-workers and getting familiar with new technologies like CDO, Teneo, Spring and others when I hit the problem that … Continue reading
Ganymede – What’s in JFace and Databinding
The History JFace-Viewers/ToolTips In 3.3 the whole Viewer-Infrastructur has been reworked to make it easier to add new features in upcoming releases. Some new features where part of 3.3 (e.g. LabelProvider/Column, CellNavigation, Customizable-Editor). Additionally JFace opened up its viewers for … Continue reading
E4 is more about bringing it to the web
Since the E4-Presentation at EclipseCon and the SWT-Talk most people think that E4 is only about bringing Eclipse to the web. THAT’S NOT TRUE. E4 is much more and that SWT gets a web-port is only a small part. Here’s … Continue reading
A radical approach to explore new paths for e4
After EclipseCon 2008 and the E4 noise I started to rewrite the prototype shown there to use an EMF-Model (I’m going to refer to this prototype in the rest of this posting as PROTOTYPE_1). It was quite cool to get … Continue reading
Eclipse E4 and UFacekit
E4 and my impression Haveing attended the E4 Talk, A Future of SWT and the E4 BOF. I’m looking forward for a lot of innovation and discussion about new architectures at various levels of the Eclipse-Platform. The most important thing … Continue reading
EclipseCon: I’ll be there
News 1: Just booked my flight and my room at the Hyatt. I’m excited to meet you all. There are so many interesting talks like Steve’s talk about the future of SWT which I’m very interested in because recently the … Continue reading
Branding for Windows (How to create .ico files automatically)
After some time not having developed for Win32. I today had to brand a small RCP-application and once more completely forgot how to create this “Programm Launcher icon” using opensource tools. So I thought I have to restore this information … Continue reading
Why do developers need Code-Snippets
Many of you may already have noticed that we started a Snippet collection for JFace-Elements like the one you know from SWT. Yesterday I updated the wiki-page to show all snippets with a short description. Are Snippets only something we … Continue reading
I’m perFLEXed
Yesterday Adobe released it’s Flex 3 and naturally I went there to see this new cool technology. I downloaded it and got an Eclipse with a GUI-Builder to create SWF-Applications. The nice thing is that Flex uses an XML-Format to … Continue reading
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