The 2015 Revision of the Eclipse Development Process

The Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors approved a new revision to the Eclipse Development Process in its meeting on November 2/2015.…

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Running Eclipse Neon on a Custom Java 9 Image

I’ve started tinkering with the creation of custom Java binary runtime image files. An image file is a configuration of modules…

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Visualizing Java 9 Module Relationships

As I stated in an earlier post, I’ve been running Eclipse Neon on the Java 9 + Jigsaw builds for…

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Eclipse IDE on JDK 9 Early Access with Project Jigsaw

I wrote a few weeks ago about getting Eclipse Neon running on Java 9 (though, I had mistakenly and embarrassingly left “Mars”…

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Ctrl+1 in the Eclipse XML Editor

The XML Editor is included in several of the Eclipse IDE downloads. It has two view modes: in design mode,…

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Project Activity Metrics, Charts, and Stuff

Yesterday we were reminded that it is difficult to provide good activity metrics. Certainly Git commit statistics are a good…

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Candidate bugs for the EclipseCon Europe 2015 Hackathon

Alternate title: What I saw at the EclipseCon Europe Hackathon made my jaw drop! I’m pretty excited about the hackathon…

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Screenshot of the Week: Missing JRE

One of the more frustrating things about Eclipse–at least for some users–is that Eclipse doesn’t come with a Java Runtime Environment…

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A Vision of the Future of the Software Developer’s Platform

How will the developer’s platform change over the next three years? Will you still be using desktop-based development tools? Cloud-based software development…

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