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Archive for September, 2004

Eclipse 3.0.1 available : how did we missed that one !?,

Since September 17 (three long days and nobody broke the silence ?) the 3.0.1 maintenance release of Eclipse is available for download. There is a respectable list of bugfixes and the same announcement contains the links to latest versions for core plugins such as GEF, EMF, CDT and (surprise, surprise ?) UML2 (v1.0.1).
Yes, you can [...]

MS Longhorn : correlations, schmotivations ?

“More and more pressure is on Microsoft to rush Longhorn. Apparently, a number of Microsoft licensees will get some sort of massive refund if the product isn't delivered in 2006, and the word on the street is that the code keeps breaking. My guess is that at the last minute the company will kludge together [...]

(Undocumented?) HTTP-based REST API in Jira

While the REST API is mentioned in the Top 10 Reasons to use Jira, I can hardly see any reference to such an external API in the documentation (I mean, besides XML-RPC and upcoming SOAP support) and even Google can't clear the issue. But I can confirm you, it is possible to fully(?) automate Jira [...]

Examples of RCP-based apps

This is the summary of a nice thread spotted on eclipse.platform.rcp. The initial question was I am constantly having to deal with resistance from my developers, which mostly boils down to resistance to SWT, and hesitance from peers in the company. There are compelling arguments to counter nearly every criticism that I've encounted. However, [...]

More examples of SWT apps

Recently, doing some SWT research, I've stumbled over a few open-sourced apps, not very popular but still interesting to disect. Thought you'd like me to share, so:

Quezen is an open source administration utility for the OpenJMS messaging system and is an implementation of the OpenJMS 0.7.6.1 Administration API.

Freeciv-swt is a Freeciv client using SWT [...]