In case you want to make sure your code is interoperable between different OSGi frameworks, you will be interested in bug #319089. It is about enhancing the JUnit Plug-in Launch config to support more than just Equinox as an OSGi framework. Unfortunately the PDE team has deemed non-Equinox frameworks not important enough to justify the [...]
In a recent blog post by Wim, he asked how the Eclipse Foundation (EF) can help solve the tragedy of the commons problem and bug #313479 follows up on this direction by requesting the EF to support individual projects do fund-raising (think Friends of Eclipse at the project level). The committer representatives have shown their [...]
Following up on our presentations given at EclipseCon earlier this year [1][2], I will do a talk on ECF’s implementation of distributed OSGi/RFC119 later today at the local Galileo DemoCamp here in Hamburg. Make sure to show up in case you are in the area. Not just to hear about RFC119, but also to attend [...]
Git appears to gain a lot momentum as the DVCS for Eclipse recently. Even our benevolent dictator Mike M. deemed it important enough to comment on _the_ Git bug. ;-) While I am a strong supporter of Git myself (mostly because I lack experience with Mercurial, bzr, Darcs), we should take a second before we [...]
Many of us have probably written their PDE build around the famous build automation article. With Galiloe’s must do to provide p2 metadata, many projects are forced to update their build now. We at ECF want to stick to our classic update site and keep build changes minimal though. So here’s how we’ve done our [...]
Yesterday the GSoC team gave the green light to Google summer of code 2009. Yay :-) In case you don’t know what GSoC is all about, you should read the program faq or join us in #eclipse-soc at irc.freenode.net. To the rest of us, lets not waste time but start to collect ideas and approach [...]
With a bunch of breaking API changes ahead of me and no intention to get into CVS merge hell (using my own branch for the changes), I decided to give git a test spin. Others have blogged about it already and it appears as if the foundation is looking into the issue already but have [...]
Jan Rellermeyer and I are going to present ECF at the OSGi community event in Berlin. The talk is titled “Distributed OSGi Services with the Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF)” and the abstract reads as follows: The Eclipse Communication Framework will soon go into version 2.0, which will bring the concepts around distributed OSGi services to [...]
Based on an idea by Chris, the ECF project wishes to compile a list of adopters to get a better feel for our community. In case you’re one of them, please take a moment and add yourself to the list. Thanks! Btw. to log into the wiki, one needs to create a Bugzilla account.
A few weeks ago Mateusz Matela has been accepted as a GSoC Student to work on toString(). His app looked most promising and I’m convinced he’ll complete the term successfully. And in case he stumbles, Mike Haller and I run to the rescue. toString() generation is pretty basic functionality which is definitely useful to any [...]