Will Sun get behind Eclipse?

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A Look at the Eclipse IDE

A Look at the Eclipse IDE 11/16/2003 10:43 PM
Eclipse is an open source integrated development environment. It is primarily developed by OTI (Object Technology International Inc.), an IBM company. OTI, founded by Dave Thomas, is a famous name in this industry. OTI is something like the Pixar of the object-oriented world: a legendary company still at the forefront of the technology and releasing hit after hit. No wonder that some at IBM consider the OTI acquisition to be the best technology acquisition ever made by IBM.

Eclipse OS

Eclipse OS 04/10/2004 02:05 PM
First Version Released

SDE for Eclipse 1.1 b

SDE for Eclipse 1.1 b 04/26/2004 02:13 AM
A UML plugin for the Eclipse IDE.

Eclipse

Eclipse 06/14/2004 12:48 AM
Still Alive

Eclipse 3.0 RC1

Eclipse 3.0 RC1 06/04/2004 12:34 PM

Eclipse 3.0 RC2

Eclipse 3.0 RC2 06/12/2004 08:35 PM

I had been using Eclipse 3.0 RC1 for the past week but it was sluggish and I ran into a few hangups, so when I saw that Eclipse 3.0 RC2 was available, I got right on it.  Definitely better.  Startup is faster and shutdown takes only a second.  Nice.  I think I'll stick with this one until the final release is out which is due end of this month.  Eclipse bug count looks healthy although Platform UI and SWT team seems to be struggling a bit.

Downloading Eclipse took forever btw.  They have mirrors but mirrors are troublesome to use because it forces the user to find the package among the mirrors to download.  They should use BitTorrent IMHO and turn the mirrors into seeds.  BitTorrent needs to be more location-aware (actually route-aware) though.

Eclipse 3.0

Eclipse 3.0 06/21/2004 03:37 PM

OK - so get ready for this.

IBM now has it's own Java client side GUI technology - called SWT. There's a battle going on over two different approaches to Java client sides GUIs (between IBM and Sun/BEA) and IBM is using Eclipse for getting their's adopted. Now Oracle is getting involved. :-)

Even better - is all the other tsuff that come along with Eclipse - basically creating a client-side 'middleware' layer.

I've already met one major social networking play that's planning on building their free, open P2P system with SWT. Watch for even sexier deep linking new standards for all this stuff.

Thank you to IBM for sticking to their guns. The customer is always right. It's one thing IBM understands.

More on Eclipse RCP

More on Eclipse RCP 07/11/2004 06:25 PM

I had problem building a working RCP application, so I put together the RCP Text Editor Example to see how to configure a RCP app.  If you want to build it yourself, instructions from the main RCP page at Eclipse site is below.  The page is actually a view into CVS, so I expect/hope the real main page will appear in the near future.

1. Download the RCP Runtime build from the Downloads page, and extract it to a folder such as c:\texteditor-example.
2. Download the RCP text editing component zip and extract it to the eclipse/plugins subfolder.
3. Download the texteditor plugin zip and extract it to the eclipse/plugins subfolder.
4. Replace the eclipse/configuration/config.ini file with the appropriate config file from the texteditor plugin. For example, on Windows, copy config_win32.ini file from org.eclipse.ui.examples.rcp.texteditor_1.0.0 plugin to eclipse/configuration and rename it to config.ini.
5. Run the eclipse executable: For example, on Windows, run eclipse.exe.

Step #4 is the key step while the rest are just downloading and expanding files.  After step #5, you should see a barebone text editor.  On Win32, the RCP text editor has disk footprint of 6MB and memory footprint of 28MB.  In comparison, NotePad2 has disk footprint of 540K and memory footprint of 4MB.  SWT apps I built before had substantially smaller footprints than the RCP app, but still significantly larger than native apps.

So what do we get for roughly ten times the footprints?  Plugins!  You can put together a fancy standalone IDE for Perl, Python, or PHP by packaging plugins from the EPIC, PyDev, or PHPEclipse projects with RCP.  You'll need to pour some sweats to glue things together because those projects are probably not fully RCP ready yet.

If you are not building an IDE, don't need IDE like level of extensibility, or there aren't many plugins useful to your product, you are probably better off skipping RCP and building on top of just SWT instead.

Eclipse + VS.NET

Eclipse + VS.NET 06/22/2005 02:59 AM

Visual Eclipse.NET is a skin that makes Eclipse look like Visual Studio .NET IDE UI. Not bad.

Eclipse 1.0

Eclipse 1.0 09/20/2004 09:26 PM
A simple and elegant theme.

Eclipse 2.0

Eclipse 2.0 09/26/2004 11:31 AM
A simple and elegant theme.

Eclipse Trader

Eclipse Trader 08/15/2004 10:07 AM
First preview release

Eclipse Tools

Eclipse Tools 05/07/2004 09:02 AM
Multi Project Transfer plugin (v0.9.4 for 2.1.x) released

SVG Eclipse Plugin

SVG Eclipse Plugin 04/29/2004 07:42 AM
Initial Public Release

Eclipse + Mono

Eclipse + Mono 03/14/2005 04:51 PM
Once you create open source versions of a leading Java IDE (Eclipse) and the .Net Framework (Mono), what are the synergies of connecting the two? And if you're using JBoss, is three a crowd? Now there's a conversation-starter for this...

PMD eclipse plugin

PMD eclipse plugin 03/23/2005 12:37 PM
1.4.0 is out

Novell se une a Eclipse

Novell se une a Eclipse 02/16/2004 10:34 PM

New age dawns at Eclipse

New age dawns at Eclipse 01/28/2004 03:36 PM
CNET Jan 28 2004 8:22PM GMT

Eclipse RSS Reader

Eclipse RSS Reader 01/09/2004 09:54 PM
Eclipse RSS Reader: Publishing web-based news of all kinds via a summary format (RSS) is becoming increasingly popular. The applications include regular headline news (Yahoo! News), web logs (Slashdot.org), professional bulletins (IBM developerWorks), and project updates (SourceForge.net). A variety of RSS formats currently exist, which increases application complexity. Often, a reader capable of understanding one format cannot handle another....

Games for Eclipse

Games for Eclipse 12/28/2003 08:56 AM
version 3.0M4 released!

Eclipse Tidy

Eclipse Tidy 12/24/2003 12:13 PM
Eclipse HTML Tidy version 1.1.1 released

pydev for eclipse

pydev for eclipse 12/11/2003 07:23 PM
0.2 released

JellyLauncher for Eclipse 3

JellyLauncher for Eclipse 3 12/29/2004 08:02 AM
Call for feature requests

Addicted to Eclipse

Addicted to Eclipse 12/28/2004 09:12 AM

As much as I hate to admit it, I'm addicted to Eclipse. I'm hooked on the auto-import and auto-fix stuff that automatically imports the classes I need, adds missing methods needed to implement interfaces, and declares missing variables, fields, and even classes. And I'm hooked on the CVS client that gives me a clear view of every single file I have modified in my workspace, every incoming change, and makes it easy to override-and-commit or override-and-update. Netbeans 4.0 has come a long, long way from the old 3.X series and Creator is just awesome for JSF, but 4.0 is still not good enough to pull me away from Eclipse. There, I said it.

Unfortunately, Eclipse for Solaris/X86 is linked to Motif which makes it nearly unusable so I end up using Netbeans for most of they day, only switching to Eclipse when I need to synchronize with CVS. I actually blew a Saturday afternoon trying to get Eclipse 3.1 to build on Solaris/X86 linked to GTK. I failed, but only because I ran out of time.

New Era Under Way at Eclipse Foundation

New Era Under Way at Eclipse Foundation 06/07/2004 01:11 AM
The open-source organization gains a new director, Oracle veteran Mike Milinkovich, as it prepares to expand its membership.

Sun participation in Eclipse still
possible

Sun participation in Eclipse still
possible 06/30/2004 04:03 PM
SAN FRANCISCO -- The on-again, off-again issue of having Sun Microsystems participate in the Eclipse open source tools initiative may soon be on again.

Z80 plugin for eclipse

Z80 plugin for eclipse 06/29/2004 12:11 PM
Released first version

Eclipse-BEA=Pollinate

Eclipse-BEA=Pollinate 06/27/2004 05:39 PM

A bunch of things will be announced and shown at JavaOne next week - and this sounds like one of them. I predict that one by one, each of the major enterprise development platforms will go open source as everyone is figuring out where the money is.

So now, in addition to Struts, BEA's Pollinate will become a vaiable platform for developing large scale systems - like Digital Lifestyle Aggregators. That's one of the big reasons why it'll be possible for average everyday schmoes to produce and maintain their own DLAs.

Eclipse is also going to make it much easier for folks to develop and maintain these large-scale systems as well. When you offer folks lots of options, not only do you "pollinate the flowers", but you also create an open source competatuiev feature thingie - which pressures folks to keep moving forward - and not get complacent, which is what we've seen Microsoft do over and over again. Once they win a sector - all development stops.

It was fun to see Jonathan Scvhwartz squirm and get severely agitated on Friday when I asked him about IBM's SWT fat client UI technology.

After - what is it 7-8 years? - someone has finally come up with a decent UI front-end frameworks for Java and (of course) Sun's line is "with the release of Java 1.5, we now enter into a new world of blah blah blah [enter typical Sun bullshit here.]

SWT could be the missing link, along with Eclipse's client side "middleware", for 10,000's if not MILLIONs of DLA to propagate throughout cyberspace. If you can't build compelling front-end experiences - "HELLO - anyone THERE!" - we're never gonna move these experiences "down the pyramid"!

So enough ranting from me.....

Here's the Eclipse-BEA story....

SAN FRANCISCO—Although BEA Systems Inc. will not formally join the Eclipse Foundation, the company is moving closer to supporting the organization and its goals.

At the JavaOne conference here this week, BEA, of San Jose, Calif., will announce a new Eclipse Foundation project called Pollinate that will feature Eclipse support for BEA's Beehive technology, which is the open-source version of BEA's WebLogic Workshop Java IDE (integrated development environment) framework.

Dave Cotter, director of product management at BEA, said this agreement does not mean BEA will be joining the Eclipse Foundation, however. He said Instantiations Inc., of Portland, Ore., will head up the Pollinate project.

Pollinate is an open-source incubator project to create an Eclipse-based development environment and tool set that will integrate with Beehive, which BEA submitted to the Apache Foundation. Beehive is an open-source framework for building SOA (service-oriented architecture) and enterprise Java applications. Eclipse provides the development environment and Beehive provides the underlying application framework and run-time.

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Eclipse 3.0 liberado

Eclipse 3.0 liberado 06/26/2004 09:21 AM

Eclipse goes native

Eclipse goes native 06/25/2004 04:59 PM
- Redhat frees Eclipse from the VM, via Sc ott Delap

Eclipse 3.0 is NOT released yet

Eclipse 3.0 is NOT released yet 06/24/2004 05:51 PM

I don't know where the mix up got started but numberous websites are announcing the release of Eclipse 3.0 already.  Note that the latest version is Eclipse 3.0 RC3.  The final version will be released on June 28 or so.

BTW, I noticed that Eclipse site now has links to BitTorrent seeds for Eclipse releases.  That should come in handy at the end of this month.

WiMax take up could eclipse Wi-Fi

WiMax take up could eclipse Wi-Fi 09/24/2004 12:05 PM
Computer Weekly Sep 24 2004 3:09PM GMT

Eclipse Gets a Facelift

Eclipse Gets a Facelift 06/21/2004 12:05 PM
The Eclipse Foundation has rolled out the latest version of the Eclipse platform.

Eclipse XML based SRS

Eclipse XML based SRS 06/16/2004 02:52 PM
DocBook Generated SRS Help Plugin available!

Eclipse 3.0 Plug-ins I Use

Eclipse 3.0 Plug-ins I Use 06/30/2004 07:39 AM

Best part of using Eclipse is the large plugin developer community.  Since it could be a little bewildering, here are some of the plugins I am using with Eclipse 3.0.  They are all free and most of them are open source.

Color Editor - Free, Open Source

While Eclipse ships with syntax coloring support for many file types, it does miss some major ones like HTML, JS, JSP, CSS, and even XML.  The last one is a surprise because XML syntax coloring plugin was one of the example plugins offered by the Eclipse team.  Anyway, Color Editor adds syntax coloring support for 74 file types by porting syntax coloring files for JEdit, a popular pure-Java editor, to work under Eclipse.  Very nice.

Sysdeo Eclipse Tomcat Launcher - Free, Open Source

If you do anything with Tomcat, you'll have to get this one.  There are several other plugins that lets you do the same, but this one sucks the least among the free ones and the author seems to be still mildy interested in keeping it up to date.  JSP debugging is a bit of a hassle, but not quite enough for me to wade into the source code to fix it yet.  I am hoping another talented sucker will have less patience than I.

QuantumDB - Free, Open Source

With this plugin, you can bookmark databases you use, browse it using a tree GUI, and execute queries on them.  Results are displayed in a grid.  Not exactly impressive, but very functional and very handy.

Azzurri Clay - Free Core Version, Not Open Source

Clay allows you to edit database schemas visually similar to the way MS Access does it.  It's not a tool I use everyday but it's very useful when you do use it.  You can create a diagram out of an existing database, make changes to the schema model, and then generate SQL dialect-specific SQL.  This is pretty handy for porting your database to another database implementation since Clay will generate the target database specific DDL.

GEF - Free, Open Source

Graphical Editor Framework is a framework for, surprise, building graphical editors like UML diagram editors, etc.  This plugin is used by many other plugins (i.e. Azzurri Clay) so you'll have to get it eventually.  Only issue I have with GEF is that it doesn't support Java2D yet.  Since Eclipse 3.0 adds support for AWT, JFC/Swing, and Java2D, I am hoping this shortcoming will disappear soon.

I also have EMF, SDO, XSD, UML2, and VE plugins but I haven't used them yet.  Visual Editor (VE) plugin, in particular, should be very useful so I am going to play with it this weekend.

BTW, I usually go to the Eclipse-Plugi ns Info site to find plugins.  Many of the plugins listed there will have some problem with Eclipse 3.0, but now that Eclipse 3.0 is out, updates are coming at a fast pace already.

Eclipse Office

Eclipse Office 12/11/2003 09:35 AM
screenshots

Sun drops out of Eclipse

Sun drops out of Eclipse 12/04/2003 04:55 AM
ZDNet UK Dec 4 2003 4:22AM ET

Eclipse performance.

Eclipse performance. 03/12/2003 10:29 AM

eclipse.exe -vmargs -Xverify:none -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:PermSize=20M 

 -XX:MaxNewSize=32M -XX:NewSize=32M -Xmx96m -Xms96m

Sosume applies some new GC configuration settings, written about in JavaWorld and recommended for Netbeans to improve Eclipse performance in his post: Improving Eclipse performance by using vm arguments. I'm trying these settings myself now, but with -Xmx256m.

Java, day #2: Eclipse

Java, day #2: Eclipse 12/17/2002 09:54 PM
I spent a fair amount of time today reading about and playing with IBM's Eclipse. My reasons for investigating Eclipse are twofold: (1) I'd like to see if it is compelling enough as an IDE to make me switch from...
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