Don’t attend the Eclipse DemoCamp in Hamburg this Friday…
... if you're not interested in meeting local (and non-local) Eclipse enthusiasts and committers, learning something about Eclipse, Git, SWT, Qt, e4 and the iPhone, watching some nice Pixar short films in a cosy cinema, and frosty beverages.
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OSGi & Servlets: Flexibility by Simplicity
Strangely enough, simple things tend to be more flexible than complex things. I bet you too have seen people go to great lengths to ensure a certain solution provides utmost flexibility. Read more
OSGi & Servlets: Deploying on Amazon EC2
Last week, I showed you how to create a very simple OSGi-based servlet and run it locally on Jetty. Today, I will show you how to deploy this servlet to an Amazon EC2 instance.
OSGi & Servlets: A Happy Marriage
In this post, I'll show you how to create a simple OSGI-based servlet. Later, we will deploy this servlet to an Amazon EC 2 instance - this should be fun!
iPhones on Mars
EclipseCon 2010 is over and as always has been a great chance to meet up with fellow committers and users of the software we build. Xtext has received a tremendous amount of attention: not only did we deliver several talks and tutorials on Xtext, but also did Xtext get mentioned in a number of talks we were not involved in. Xtext even received the Eclipse Community Award in the category "Most Innovative New Feature of Eclipse Project".
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Getting started with Code Generation with Xpand
Have you heard about model driven software development (MDD / MDSD) and are thinking "what's all this fuzz about models"? "Why should models help me to be more productive," might be another thought you have.
People have been asking how to leverage models on and off on the web and in meetings I attended, so I thought I might share this little tutorial with you. In this tutorial, we will develop a little code generator that helps you to create (HTML) forms from models.
A short Overview
Xpand is a template engine, similar to FreeMarker, Velocity, JET and JSP. However, it features some very unique properties that makes using Xpand very well suited for generating code from models, such as type safety and polymorphic dispatch. If you haven't heard those terms before, fear not! I'll show you how to use Xpand by way of an easy-to-follow example.
Running AppleScript from Java
In my current project, I need to launch an external application and maybe execute some additional commands on this external application. Due to the very nature of the project, the whole system will always be run on Mac OS X. So I thought, "why not use AppleScript"? Read more
Eclipse DemoCamp Hamburg 11/2009
The Eclipse DemoCamp in Hamburg was a huge success - more than 110 people signed up and most of them actually showed up at the event:
The program was packed with interesting talks and we were lucky to be able to present some very well known speakers:
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Xtext Tricks #1: Enhancing Completion Proposals
Those of you who follow me on Twitter might have noticed I am working on an Xtext based DSL for Behaviour Driven Development. Part of the DSL allows the DSL user to define actors and the verbs these actors can execute. Actors can have a hierarchy (much like a class hierarchy), meaning an actor will inherit all verbs of it's super actors. As the list of verbs can grow quite a bit, the content assist drop down menu becomes a bit overwhelming.
To alleviate this situation, I decided to display the "owner" of a verb along with the name of the verb in the content assist drop down box. Here is my first try:
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Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Modeling (But Were Afraid To Ask)
- Does Model Driven Software Development actually work?
- Are some developers more productive than others?
- What happens during code generation?
- Do diagrams and text go together well?
- What happens during model transformation?
- What are DSLs? And can I create them with Eclipse?
- Does modeling scale in the enterprise?
You guessed it, these are not the questions from a well-know Woody Allen movie, but questions that will be answered at the Eclipse Modeling Days which will be held in New York and Toronto in November.
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