Eclipse World Tailgate Party

The plans are starting to come together for our tailgate party at Eclipse World. The party will be on Sept. 6, starting at 8:00pm. Besides the food and drink, we also hope to encourage people to network with other Eclipse users and Eclipse technical community leaders.

We also plan to have some cool demos of Eclipse Equinox / RCP applications. John Cunningham from Band XI will show Cyrano, an Eclipse Equinox application that was protoyped at last years Super Bowl by the US Army to help them with the security detail. We will also have John Smith from RPC Software that has written an entire ERP system on RCP.

Some of the Eclipse technical leaders planning to attend include Arthur Ryman from WTP, Jason Weathersby from BIRT, Richard Gronback from Modeling Project and GMF, Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel will be on hand to talk about plug-in development and Wayne Beaton on RCP.

If you planning to attend Eclipse World, please drop by. We will also have some Eclipse shirts to hand out but we have a limited supply so please rsvp to tailgate-party@eclipse.org.

More Usage of Eclipse Equinox and OSGi

There seems to be a flury of examples of Eclipse Equinox and OSGi being used in different applications. For example, the post on EclipseZone about IBM Websphere 6.1 using Equinox, zx post of Apache Tuscany and a really informative post from murphee’s rant.

So I thought I would take this opportunity to highlight a new case study about Adobe’s usage of Eclipse’s OSGi framework. Keep those examples coming….

UPDATE: EclipseZone just released a podcast with Jeff MacAffer who is the project lead of Equinox.

Sun’s FUD About Borland

I think it is really sad to see Sun’s latest marketing campaign creating FUD about Borland. Sun is supposively the steward of the Java community but here they go attacking a long-term supporter and partner of Java. With friends like this, who needs enemies?

It is this type of marketing that gives the marketing profession a bad name with developers. I can only imagine the Sun marketing department is trying to figure out how to make money out of the NetBeans community. I just don’t think they have a clue and this campaign will piss off the JBuilder developer community.

All I can say is that I look forward to the Borland JBuilder release of Peloton. With marketing like this, it should be pretty easy for the Borland DevCo folks to put NetBeans in their place.

Improving our web site for users

Over the last year, the Phoenix project has worked to improve the eclipse.org web site and I think we have made some substantial progress; remember the bad old days of frames :-). The next step is to make it easier for the average user to come to eclipse.org and find things relevant to them on the web site.

Denis, has opened a bug to start tracking suggestions. There are a number of bugs already opened but we are specifically interested suggestion on what type of content a new user wants to see?

btw, if you don’t have a bugzilla account feel free to leave a comment and I will try to summarize in a bugzilla entry.