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Total Eclipse in Gentoo

Posted on: Sunday, July 8th, 2007 in: Java

Gentoo does really have Eclipse SDK in its portage. I once used it a long time ago and I gave up soon after I learned that it’s more difficult to update the portage version of Eclipse (at least to me).
Now I decided to install Eclipse Europa, and grabbed myself a Gtk version of Europa [...]

Red Hat, Exadel and JBoss

Posted on: Sunday, March 11th, 2007 in: Java

Red Hat has merged with JBoss for some time, and now it’s aiming high again. Exadel is well-known for its Eclipse plug-in and Ajax tools, but it’s good products were mostly commercial. Now Exadel is open-sourcing its products to JBoss, in partnership with Red Hat. It also includes Exadel’s Ajax4jsf. Red Hat is planning to [...]

Eclipse’s Tab Properties And JFace Database Binding

Posted on: Tuesday, February 28th, 2006 in: Java

New tabbed properties view is finally coming to Eclipse 3.2 Platform, according to this article.
What it was before:

What it’s after:

I personally think, although I haven’t tried, that it would be more difficult to navigate through tabs using only keyboards.
JFace Database Binding is still not an Official API for Eclipse 3.2. But it doesn’t stop us [...]

The Rise Of Mustang and JUnit

Posted on: Saturday, February 18th, 2006 in: Java

Tiger (Java SE 5) has been out for a while. Mustang (Java SE 6) was started a year ago. Sun has been releasing weekly source and binary snapshots. So what does Mustang comprise? Its features were governed by JSR-270, which is an umbrella JSR for specific JSRs. Some major components include JDBC 4.0, JAP 1.1, [...]

Better Than Flowers On Valentine’s Day

Posted on: Thursday, February 16th, 2006 in: Java, Linux, PHP

Here comes Valentine’s Gift from Yahoo! For our everyday’s HTML and AJAX needs, Yahoo! has just given us Yahoo! User Interface Library, and all the components are released under Open Source License (BSD License). Better than flowers, huh?
Yeah, we’ve got libraries and that pushes us further into endless possibilities of creating useful applications. To make [...]