Next week JAX 2010 starts in Mainz, Germany. As always, the program is great and there are many Eclipse and OSGi related sessions. This year I give two sessions:
For the OSGi session I updated my dynamic Swing demo to the latest versions of Equinox, DS, Spring DM and iPOJO. You can test-drive the application with Java WebStart.
I look forward to seeing you at JAX 2010!
I would like to thank everyone who attended my sessions at EclipseCon for the feedback. The bucket-feedback was (+1/0/-1):
I am very happy with the feedback, especially with some of the comments 
:
This motivates me so much that I plan to submit “Reloaded” versions of the tutorials for EclipseCon 2011!
@Tom, @Lars, @Ben: What do you think?
@Chris, when are you planing to open the submission system?
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Just to adopt the latest service release (and for my EclipseCon tutorial), my MP3 Manager Eclipse RCP demo is now based on Eclipse 3.5.2. Compared to version 3.5.1 there is no new functionality, but the headless build is configured to run with a 3.5.2 target platform.
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As every year, I am looking forward to one of my favorite conferences about software architecture and other interesting stuff, the OOP 2010 (January 25th – 29th in Munich, Germany). This year, I give a full day tutorial on Advanced Eclipse RCP (in German) and a preview on e4: CSS Styling and Workbench Modeling (in English). While most sessions are in German, there are quite a bunch of sessions in English as well.
So, if you happen to be in Munich at the end of January, may be the OOP 2010 could be an interesting conference for you.
See you there,
Kai
Recently I started playing around with the great Trident animation library (by Kirill Grouchnikov). Boris Bokowski was so kind to provide a bundle-fied version of Trident in the e4 repository, so I could integrate it easily into my e4 Contacts demo. The first thing I wanted to try out was to animate the splash screen. Since the new year has just started, I integrated the Trident fireworks demo with very few modifications. Since e4 has no SplashHandler support (yet ), I hacked the start up of the E4Application class a bit and inserted a new SWT Shell, running the Fireworks animation.
I have created a little screen capture animation how the start up of the e4 contacts demo looks with animated splash screen. Click on the picture below to start the animation.
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A very common use case in a domain specific RCP app is to update itself using p2. When deploying this app, it would be very convenient if a list of predefined update sites could be available for the application at the first start. This was possible (but not trivial) even with Eclipse 3.4. But now, with Eclipse 3.5.1, it is very easy to do:
You find a working example in my MP3 Manager demo application:
instructions.configure=\
addRepository(type:0,location:http${#58}//max-server.myftp.org/mp3m/repository);\
addRepository(type:1,location:http${#58}//max-server.myftp.org/mp3m/repository);
If you want to test is with file locations rather than Internet locations, you could use locations like
file${#58}/c:/repository
The above location works for Windows, mind that in the file case there is only one / after the colon.
A list of all available p2 touchpoint instructions you find in the Eclipse Wiki.
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Kai
Just to adopt the latest service release, my MP3 Manager Eclipse RCP demo is now based on Eclipse 3.5.1. Compared to version 3.5.0 there is no new functionality, but there is a new bug 
. The splash handler does not work anymore, I have created a bug (291920) already.
Addition: Bug 291920 is fixed. SplashHandlers need an additional splashHandlerProductBinding extension. I just added one and everything works again.
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Long time ago I was ask by Kevlin Henney, the editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know, if I would like to contribute one or two articles. I felt flattered by this question and agreed to write something. With Kevlin’s help as editor, my two contributions made it in the list of Edited Contributions. Sometime around the middle of October, 97 contributions will be picked from the Edited Contributions and published in O’Reilly’s 97 Things series.
I wrote “Don’t Reinvent the Wheel” and “Use the Same Tools in a Team” and every day I really enjoy reading a few articles. If you are a software developer, I am sure that you will find many gems when reading through the list of Edited Contributions.
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I am just back from vacation and was very happy to see that I am presenting at the Eclipse Summit Europe in Ludwigsburg. I will give a talk about customizing the UI of e4 based RCP apps using css and together with Boris Bokowsky, Tom Schindl, Yves Yang and Hallvard Traetteberg I will talk about “What’s in e4“. And, off course, I won’t miss the e4 Symposium.
I am looking forward to see you in Ludwigsburg!
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I just released version 3.5 of my Open Source Eclipse RCP demo application. You find more information here.
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