09/29/05
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Siobhan O'Mahony has presented preliminary results of her study Competing on a Common Platform presented at last Eclipse Members Meeting (September 22, 2005). Here a some interesting figures. Eclipse community is composed of:
Note that a lot of commiters are still from IBM. |
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09/28/05
How to create a plug-in with Eclipse 3.1? -
Categories: Eclipse Platform, Eclipse plug-ins, Tutorials -
Serge Baccou
@ 02:32:59 pm
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Until now, I was only a user of the Eclipse Platform. Today, I want to know how to create a new simple plug-in with Eclipse 3.1 using the Plug-in Development Environment (PDE). The first goal is really simple: use the PDE to create a kind of Hello World plug-in. What a nice surprise when I have discovered that the Eclipse guys have the idea to create a wizard to do that! This wizard really simplify the creation of a Hello World Eclipse plug-in... |
09/11/05
Eclipse and the world of Hello World -
Categories: Eclipse Platform, Ant -
Serge Baccou
@ 04:28:05 pm
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One big strength of Eclipse compared to other IDE (ok, no name) is that Eclipse is language-agnostic so that you can use Eclipse in many programming languages or development frameworks. To prove that quality, I have written 4 Hello World! programs using Eclipse and using 4 different languages: Java, Ant (ok, it's tool rather than a language), PHP and Ruby on Rails. The level of integration with Eclipse is not the same for every languages, but the language-agnostic promise is respected. |
09/02/05
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As in some other scientific domains, Eclipse is probably suffering of some acronym addiction. As deciphering acronyms is always a pain in particular for newcomers, I have created a list of Eclipse acronyms. We can name it EAL for Eclipse Acronym List, if you agree:-). Update (2005-09-02): |
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