Announcements

In this new article, Anthony Hunter, describes the tabbed properties view that was moved to the core platform with Eclipse 3.2M5.

Join us for EclipseCon in Santa Clara, March 20-23rd. The Program Committee has put together an outstanding program of keynotes, tutorials, technical and business talks. With the addition of short talks and posters, you'll see and learn about an impressive array of projects, initiatives and ideas from the people building and implementing the technologies. BoFs, lunchtime tabletopics and many more special events will give you the opportunity to explore important Eclipse themes face to face with fellow members of the Eclipse community.

Rich Client Tutorial Part 1-3 by Ed Burnette (SAS) Updated February 2006

Voting for the Eclipse Foundation Board Representative Elections for the committer and add-in provider communities begins on February 13th. Please review the candidates' statements and participate in discussions on the eclipse.foundation newsgroup (news, html).

The Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) Project delivers improved integration with BIRT and WTP in its latest release, TPTP 4.1.0.1, a maintenance release of 4.1.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the addition of the Open Source Pavillion at EclipseCon 2006, March 20-23 in Santa Clara, CA. The Open Source Pavilion will showcase open source projects that support and complement the spirit of the Eclipse community. Business Objects is a co-sponsor of this new addition to EclipseCon.

Actuate, BEA Systems, Business Objects, Compuware, HP, IBM, Serena and Sybase to Provide Highest Level Support to Eclipse Community Event

The Eclipse Foundation today announced that Actuate, BEA Systems, Business Objects, Compuware, HP, IBM, Serena and Sybase have signed on as Gold Sponsors for EclipseCon 2006, the annual conference that brings together the Eclipse community. Gold Sponsorship is the highest level of sponsorship for the conference. The third annual EclipseCon will be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Calif., March 20-23, 2006.

Introducing the GMF Runtime by Frederic Plante (IBM) January 2006

Eclipse Forms: Rich UI for the Rich Client by Dejan Glozic (IBM)January 2006

Draft: Eclipse Platform Technical Overview July 2001 (Updated December 2005 for Eclipse 3.1)

The Eclipse Foundation and some member companies are hosting a four city seminar series focused on using Eclipse in the enterprise.

This is the last week for the lowest registration prices.

Eclipse WTP Project ships platform API for independent extension

The Eclipse Community Awards are to recognize and thank the individuals and technologies that make Eclipse such a vibrant, robust community. There are two categories of awards: 1) awards for individuals, and 2) awards for technologies and products. Nominations are open until January 27th. The awards will be presented at EclipseCon 2006.

Download TPTP 4.1
Take a quick tour of TPTP 4.1

Eclipse RCP is the core runtime environment of the Eclipse tooling platform. It includes the Eclipse plug-in model, the GUI components and frameworks that enable the native platform look and feel, a mechanism for dynamically updating plug-ins and much more. Using these, developers can take advantage of the open source Eclipse technology to deliver applications that provide rich, well integrated user experiences.

Thursday, December 8, 2005, 11:00 am PT/2:00 pm ET, Duration: 60 minutes

Overview

The Rich Client Platform (RCP) allows you to build Java applications that can compete with native applications on any platform. Part 1 of the tutorial introduced you to the platform and the steps used to build the smallest possible RCP program. In part 2 we'll look at what we did in more detail and introduce some of the configuration classes that let you take control of much of the layout and functionality of an RCP application. This part has been updated for Eclipse 3.1.

The Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) Project was selected as a finalist for the 2005 Testers Choice award in the "Java Test & Performance" category. Also, a TPTP-based tool, IBM Rational Performance Tester, was selected as a finalist in the "Load/Performance Test Tools" category.