Simon Zambrovski» Simon Zambrovski | Categry: eclipse

Eclipse p2 for Sale

Simon — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:31:33 +0000

Google seems to have a funny interpretation of the search and an interesting strategy for advertisements. I was looking for a repository to get Subclipse, because the tigris.org page was down for maintenance. So I opened Google (the German version of it http://www.google.de/) to look for “Sublipse p2″. On the right side of the page, the ad has been displayed… (The translation of it from German is: Buy Eclipse p2, thousands of offers. Eclipse p2: low prices guaranteed…)

It is impressive, since I was not searching for Eclipse, but the Big Brother was able to establish the semantic link between Sublipse and Eclipse and look for Eclipse & p2. It turns out that p2 is Pentium II and Eclipse is the Fujitsu Siemens Notebook.

For all non-geeks among us: Eclipse is a the famous software platform and integrated development environment built on top of it. P2 is the system for provisioning and installation of components inside of Eclipse. Eclipse is the example for the open-source development and is available free of charge.

Packaging Eclipse-based RCP

Simon — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:57:49 +0000

Just posted an article on packaging of RCP application on TechJava. I wanted to include more enterprise systems-related stuff in it, but somehow it is more about general RCP packaging. The main difference between standard packaging and the one described is the fact that the additional feature with framework plug-ins is used. At any rate, have a look on it… By the way, the TechJava blog is now aggregated in PlanetEclipse.

Eclipse DemoCamp Hamburg – Galileo Edition

Simon — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:00:19 +0000

I had a chance to speak about Eclipse Common Navigator Framework on Eclipse DemoCamp Hamburg – Galileo Edition. The event was a full success. Five speakers and fourty visitors were attending. After the formal part, there was an opportunity to relax at the bar of East Hotel Hamburg, thanks to Peter and Martin.

My talk was focussed on the basics of CNF. After some slides on Why, What and How, I moved on to a live coding demo and coded a small CNF view inside of an trivial RCP. Everithng worked fine, until the launch – I misspelled one id in the plugin.xml, and had to resign and showed the prepaired result instead of the hacked one. If you want to read more, check out the TechJava report.

Eclipse Common Navigator Framework

Simon — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:45:21 +0000

Just finished to correct mistakes (thanks to Francis) in the article I posted about the usage of the Common Navigator Framework (CNF). In doing so the article incorporates the information already covered in different blogs, but also focuses on the specific use case of providing a view of data structure completely unrelated to the Eclipse platform resources. So the aim is not to add some content to the “Project Explorer” which is an example of resource-oriented CNF usage, but to provide a view on a completely own data model. This post fostered some communication with Francis regarding the CNF documentation provided in Eclipse, so I’m happy if my contributions can be valuable. As usual, this kind of content goes to TechJava….

Eclipse DemoCamp 2009 – Galileo Edition

Simon — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:05:52 +0000

The Galileo Edition of Eclipse is already in the pipeline and the community is happy to celebrate this with a series of events. In Hamburg we do it in two ways – there are Eclipse DemoCamps and Eclipse Stammtisch. This time Peter and Martin managed to put both events together. To make it short:

What: Eclipse DemoCamp + Eclipse Stammtisch
Where: Hotel East, Hamburg ( Simon-von-Utrecht-Str. 31, 20359 Hamburg, Germany)
When: May 25th 2009, 18:00-21:00 (official part)

I’m attending. If you want to attend, make sure you find a minute to write you name down in EclipseWiki.. If you want to read more, look at the original post at TechJava…. See you on the DemoCamp.

RCP Help System

Simon — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:37:50 +0000

Eclipse Platform provides a help system that can be used during creation of the help content for your application. It is very convenient while used inside of the IDE, but needs a special approach if used in the RCP. This article tries to gather the information which may be useful.

You can find more on that in post just published by me on TechJava…

OSGi: Why Modularity is Important.

Simon — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:21:11 +0000

Yesterday, the OSGi session took place in Hotel East in Hamburg. Peter Kriens, the OSGi evangelist showed a wonderful Zen Presentation on OSGi. I wrote a lot during his talk which happens to me very seldom. Here are the core statements I understood:

The core difference between usual plugin architectures and OSGi is that OSGi concentrates on collaboration of the components.
OSGi delivers a controlled environment, in which the question if a component runs or not can be answered in beforehand.
OSGi bundles use metadata (about versions, dependencies, etc) to predict an error, not discover it in runtime.
OSGi has a very narrow API containing the minimal common part.
OSGi consists of module, life cycle and services layers. The initially developed services layer required smart class loading mechanisms (module layer).

The module layer is desigend to control the class loading machanisms (e.G. structureal class loader hierarchies instead of a linear classpath)
Life cycle layer adds a management API (e.G. inform the others about installation event)
Separation of concerns is promoted by definition of services for different tasks.

Services are used for decoupling of system parts (This is a standard application of service-orientation).
OSGI makes dependencies explicit (private, import, export)
OSGI tries to make the system managable, taking dynamics and lifecycle as fisrst-class citizens
OSGI will be extended to support distribution: the team works on policies, SLAs, etc…

I liked the talk and the way how Peter Kriens addressed the problems of OO in big systems. I was confirmed in some ideas about coupling that will be layed out in my thesis. After the presentation we had a delicious meal and wraped up the evening with interesting discussion about pros and contras of OSGi. Peter Friese showed me some remote OSGi staff, he was playing with. The lack of documentation in this area makes it a little difficult, but I hope he will post some news on it. As usual, you can find other pictures in my FlickR gallery.

Innovation Networks

Simon — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:11:53 +0000

Yesterday, the second Eclipse Stammtisch Hamburg took place. It was nice to see the Hamburger community again. I had the opportunity to speak with Ralph about the activities in consortium and about the innovation netoworks, about German education system and other subjects. It was a very interesting discussion, even it was a non-technical one. Later, we discussed the xText development with Peter.

As usually the rest of pictures can be found in my flickr gallery.

Upcoming Eclipse Stammtisch Hamburg, v.2008.09

Simon — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:20:11 +0000

The vacation time of most people is over, so it is time to meet and discuss a little. A good opportunity to do this will be given on September 1st in Roxie, Hamburg during the Eclipse Stammtisch. The event name translates into regular’s table and indicates a regularity of the happening. Even if the upcoming event is only the second in series I expect to meet many people after the great feedback after the last one.

Details:

When: Monday, September 1st, 19:00 CET
Where: Roxie, Hamburg, Germany
Directions: http://www.roxie-hamburg.com/roxieway.htm
Who’s comming: Doodle Poll

See you next Monday.

Eclipse Stammtisch Hamburg, v.2008.05

Simon — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:36:31 +0000

The first “Eclipse Stammtisch Hamburg” took place in Bolero in Ottensen. It was a full success, about 50 people were there. Peter and Stefan seemed to like it too. I was glad to see people I met on Eclipse Democamp again. I liked the location, having a separated room, big enough for another 50 people. I spoke with Ralph on the intended frequency of the event – it could be good to have it once in a quater. Some pictures can be seen in my FlickR gallery.