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Aurelien Pupier: Acquire Heap Dump from MAT (Memory Analyzer Tool)

MAT, which stands for Memory Analyzer Tool, is a fast and feature-rich Java heap analyzer that helps you find memory leaks and reduce memory consumption.
The project got integrated into the release train with Helios and comes with great features. I wi…

Upcoming Event: Reminder – Memory Analyzer 1.0 – Not Only New, but Noteworthy

Event Date: September 8, 2010 3:00 pm GMT-8Register Now

Krum Tsvetkov (SAP), Andrew Johnson (IBM)

 

Abstract:

In this Eclipse webinar, the Memory Analyzer team will present some of most interesting and helpful features in the …

EclipseLive: Upcoming Event: Reminder – Memory Analyzer 1.0 – Not Only New, but Noteworthy

Event Date: September 8, 2010 3:00 pm GMT-8Register Now

Krum Tsvetkov (SAP), Andrew Johnson (IBM)

 

Abstract:

In this Eclipse webinar, the Memory Analyzer team will present some of most interesting and helpful features in the tool…

Bob Balfe: Attachment Viewer on Steroids

Ok, maybe not steroids but Dojo and CSS!
Lots of work on the attachment viewer.  Using Dojo, CSS and JavaScript I was able to give the viewer two new view modes with some eye candy in each.  I use CSS to have shadows and a tile mode.  Check out the …

Scott Kellicker: Using JSDT #4 : Adding Third Party Library

I’m documenting my experiences using the Eclipse JSDT.
In this post I will add a 3rd party library.  I will describe a success (mooTools) and a failure (jQuery).
Previously

#1: JSDT resources.
#2 : Run First Project
#3 : HTML5 limitations

Adding…

Herman Lintvelt: Making Java GUI Development easier

I’ve been programming in Java for about 13 years now, and I’ve becoming more and more convinced that there should be a much easier way to create GUI applications than writing Java code.This might sound like a strange statement, especially coming fr…

Heiko Seeberger: SLF4S – Logging the Scala way

Do we need another logging framework in the Java/Scala world? Certainly not! As Scala is fully “downward” compatible to Java, we can use whatever Java logging solution we want. And there are many, aren’t there?.So why SLF4S? Well, SLF4S isn’t another l…

Peter Kriens: Easier Configuration Admin

We are likely to introduce a new service that makes Configuration Admin significantly easier to use. How? By using the Java type machine. Though properties are nice and flexible, they tend to cause cluttered code because of the required checks and conv…

Eclipse Labs – Most Active Project: Eclipse Labs Projects Update for the week of September 3rd 2010

Most Active Projects
code-recommenders – IDE 2.0: Bringing Collective Intelligence into Software Development
anyedittools – AnyEdit plugin adds several new tools to the context menu of text based Eclipse editors, to Eclipse main menu and editor too…

Eclipse Day at the Googleplex 2010

Here at Google, we have engineers using Eclipse every day to build our external and internal products, as well as engineers building and releasing Eclipse tools. Earlier this year, we announced Eclipse Labs, which is “a single place where anyone can …

Ian Skerrett: Eclipse Stories: Cell Biosciences

As I mentioned yesterday, we want to encourage people to tell their Eclipse story.  Last week Cell Biosciences told their story at the Eclipse Day at the Googleplex.   You can view their entire presentation but I have added a summary on the Eclipse …

Scott Lewis: Asynchronous Remote Services – choices, choices

In ECF’s Helios release, we released an implementation of the OSGi remote services standard specification (chapter 13 in compendium).In addition to the full spec implementation…which is based upon synchronous remote service proxies…we added support…

Chris Aniszczyk: The Value of Documentation in Open Source

I’ve been starting a lot of documentation work lately for the EGit/JGit projects and happened to come across this timely article from Forbes. If you don’t want to read it, the gist of it is that solid documentation is more important than you think

Birt World: BIRT Image – Report Item

BIRT has many ways to include images within a report. Images can be used in BIRT styles, as watermarks, in text elements, and placed within the report using an image report item. In this post I will cover some of the details needed to work with image…

Donald & Ralph: Welcome SBB / CFF / FFS to the Eclipse Foundation

The Swiss Railway SBB has just recently joined the Eclipse Foundation as an Associate Member.Transporting 327.5 million passengers and 50 million net tons of freight every year the company is by far the biggest travel and transport company in Switzerla…

JFace Data Binding Team: A new direction for bindings?

I’m happy to report that I’ve been given company approval to port the relevant components of our Flex data binding library back to Eclipse Data Binding.I haven’t started the actual port yet–there are still some concepts on the Flex side that are not a…

Ian Bull: OSGi in Dublin

If anybody is going to be in Dublin next Thursday (Sept 9th), I’ll be talking about OSGi, Software Modularity and Single Sourcing.  Details of the event can be found here. If anybody is going to be in the area, let me know. I’d love to catch up wi…

Ian Bull: Help, I’m looking for directions — Eclipse Active Help

I know Eclipse ‘Help’ is not a very exciting topic, but today I found myself working with a little known secret of Help.  Most people know that you can setup context sensitive help (Press F1 and bring up help for the specific workbench part under …

Scott Kellicker: Contributing to JSDT #5: Launching the Product

I’ll continue my instructions regarding how to set up JSDT development infrastructure.
Previously

I set up the build target
I checked out the code
I updated to the latest debug plugins to resolve compilation issues.
I launched the unit tests

Now r…

Ian Skerrett: Tell Us Your Eclipse Story: Win a Pass to JavaOne

Lots of people are doing incredible things with Eclipse. People are building amazing applications that embedded Eclipse technology. Companies have standardized on Eclipse as their development tools platform. Students and researchers are using Eclip…

Chris Aniszczyk: AustinJUG and Eclipse 4.0

Last night I had the pleasure to speak at my local AustinJUG.

It was nice to catch up with some local folks and introduce people to some new Eclipse technology. In the end, we kind of got sidetracked and there was some good discussion about source con…

Remy Suen: OSGi, language packs, and interval notations…

Dunge: Hello there, sorry for the noob question. I installed Eclipse for Java (Helios) and JDK update 21, I’m trying to use the Blackberry SDK but when I install it it say I require org.eclipse.jdt.debug [3.5.0,3.6.0) first. I tried to find it in “…

Madhu Samuel: BIRT 2.6 Data Analysis and Reporting

Packt Publishing, a UK based book publishing firm has send me a copy of their latest book BIRT 2.6 Data Analysis and Reporting by John Ward to write a review. You can find the details of the book here. I hope to publish an in-depth review about this…

Jonas Helming: EMFStore Project approved

We are happy to announce that the EMFStore project has been accepted as an Eclipse Project.www.emfstore.org

Jonas Helming: EMF Client Platform project approved

We are happy to announce that the EMF Client Platform project has been accepted as an Eclipse Project.www.emfcp.org