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Contest and call for project contributors to Eclipse BPMN2 Modeler

Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - 12:55 by EclipseWeb Web
With the growing popularity of open source, it’s getting harder and harder to attract contributors to new projects. A quick Internet search shows us that there are about 20,000+ FLOSS projects out there, and the number of new projects continues to double about every 14 months.

Xtend and Xtext 2.4.3 Is Out!

Friday, September 6, 2013 - 19:55 by EclipseWeb Web
We have released version 2.4.3 of Xtext and Xtend. As you can see by the minor increment it's a fully backwards compatible bugfix release.

Using Hudson Teams, Part 1 – The Basics

Wednesday, September 4, 2013 - 10:55 by EclipseWeb Web
In this article I’ll be walking you through the basics of the new Hudson 3.1 feature “Team Concept�. As the name suggests, this feature takes Hudson from using a flat, granular, authorization model into one where users are assigned to one or more teams.

How to Add Custom Install Actions to Your Next Eclipse IDE Plug-in

Wednesday, September 4, 2013 - 10:45 by EclipseWeb Web
The Eclipse IDE, according to some recent numbers on IDE usage, sits in nearly 2/3 of developer workstations. The ecosystem for Eclipse plug-ins, as you can imagine, is quite vast: about 1600 plug-in solutions are hosted on the Eclipse Marketplace, and have been downloaded nearly 6 million times collectively.

Natürliche Weiterentwicklung von BIRT

Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - 14:31 by EclipseWeb Web
Jason Weathersby ist BIRT-Evangelist bei der Actuate Corporation und Mitglied des Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) Project Management Committees (PMC). Jason ist Koautor von zwei BIRT-Fachbüchern und Autor von diversen Artikeln über BIRT-Technologien.

Tim Fox: What's new in Vert.x 2.0

Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 18:24 by EclipseWeb Web
In recent years, new trends like mobile clients and social networks forced web applications to handle more and more concurrent connections. This resulted in new server architectures based on eventing and asynchronicity which you can find in nginx or Node.js.

docfacto becomes Solutions Member of the Eclipse Foundation

Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 10:54 by EclipseWeb Web
docfacto, a software start-up that is developing tools for developers that take the ‘too hard’ out of documentation and help businesses eliminate documentation debt, today announced its membership of the Eclipse Foundation as a Solutions Member.

Open source Java projects: Vert.x

Thursday, August 1, 2013 - 10:12 by EclipseWeb Web
If you were excited about Node.js, Vert.x could be the next big thing for you: a similarly architected enterprise system that is built on the JVM.

Discussing M2M at Eclipse with Ian Skerrett and Benjamin Cabé

Thursday, August 1, 2013 - 10:10 by EclipseWeb Web
With a flurry of new machine-to-machine project arriving to the Eclipse Foundation in recent weeks, Claudia from jaxenter.de caught up with Eclipse VP of Marketing Ian Skerrett and Eclipse M2M Industry Working Group chair Benjamin Cabé to talk about the latest developments.

Koneki Open-Source Development Tools Simplify M2M Development

Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 11:32 by EclipseWeb Web
As the first pillar in the M2M IWG effort and the initiative that spawned the entire project, Koneki aims to solve one of the biggest problems for M2M developers: a lack of effective tools for developing embedded applications.

13 Linux Debuggers for C++ Reviewed

Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 10:22 by EclipseWeb Web
Most time in debuggers is spent doing the same few things: setting breakpoints, stepping through code, looking at variables. Which products make those features supremely accessible and useful? We compare 13 debuggers and find out.