Monthly Archives: August 2006

We just posted a great new tutorial titled “Building Project Facets” by Konstantin Komissarchik of BEA Systems on Eclipse Corner. If you want to know what facets are, and how you can use them to extend the capabilities of the … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I submitted my position paper for the Rich Client Applications Symposium at Eclipse Summit Europe. My position is basically that Eclipse Rich Client is good, components a la Equinox are king, and that folks should be building domain specific … Continue reading →

I needed a good calendar widget, so I took a look around. There are quite a few calendar widgets out there for Eclipse, but none of them did quite what I wanted. I looked at modifying one to better suit … Continue reading →

I’m finishing up the materials for the Callisto Bootcamp that I’m running at Eclipse World. I thought it might be a good idea to do a little expectation management for those of you who are planning to attend. Here’s the … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I introduced International Components for Unicode for Java (ICU4J) by describing how you can get rid of it. I feel pretty about about that, because ICU4J provides goodness that’s too important to simply dismiss. If you’re building applications for … Continue reading →

As noted in the Eclipse Wiki, ICU4J was adopted by Eclipse 3.2. ICU4J provides “more comprehensive support for Unicode, software globalization, and internationalization” than the standard java.text libraries, but comes at a cost. ~3MB to be inexact. The functionality provided … Continue reading →

I just reviewed the programme for the iX conference that’s coming up in November 2006. There’s a lot of Eclipse activity at the conference, including: Kai Tödter is holding a tutorial on Eclipse Rich Client Platform Richard Schwaninger is presenting … Continue reading →

Ben Walding has put together a page that contains all the icons contained in the Eclipse CVS repository. It’s a handy resource for finding just the right icon. They’re all released under the EPL, so you can actually reuse the … Continue reading →

This article illustrates how the EMFT OCL parser/interpreter technology adds to the value of EMF/JET code generation as a foundation for model-driven development (MDD). We will see, with fully functional examples, how a metamodel can be generated from an Ecore … Continue reading →

Chris took me to task after this posting, exposing an important part of the Eclipse Corner publishing process: if things seem to be stalled, poke me (either directly or with a bugzilla comment). Sometimes the process of getting an article … Continue reading →