Pascal (aka LeNettoyeur) on Eclipse

Montreal demo camp next week

2011-11-23T20:11:00.001-08:00

The Montreal demo camp will be on next Tuesday, Nov 29th! Don't forget to register and propose a session as there are still many spots available. See you there.

Eclipse, fashion boutique

2011-11-11T18:44:00.001-08:00

Beyond the awesome OSS software it provides, Eclipse is the place to get dressed! As an evidence, here is my personal collection of Eclipse T-shirts gathered over the years of conferences, camps, Lynn bribing, etc. Missing from this list: the long sleeves jeans shirts from eclipsecon 2007(?), the very first Eclipse hat from OTI/IBM, some GSoc shirts, and the EclipseCon exercise shirts, but I

p2 and equinox "office hours"

2011-09-23T05:57:00.000-07:00

You have beginner or experienced-level questions about equinox or p2? You want to contribute to equinox or p2? Just want to chat with us?Join us on our weekly office hours every Tuesday at 1pm EST on the #equinox-dev channel on IRC (http://wiki.eclipse.org/IRC).During these meetings equinox and p2 committers, contributors and aficionados will answer questions on any topic you come up with.

More on p2 and OBR

2011-09-12T10:22:00.000-07:00

When I set out to write my previous blog post about why not OBR, the intent was to give, with a catchy title, an historical perspective on p2 (thus the recent title update) but also to answer people who have been asking for years this question (and yesterday night another one of those came in). The point was not to do a comparison of p2 and OBR as they are today, and especially not to claim that

Why not OBR? - An historical perspective on p2.

2011-09-11T21:02:00.000-07:00

Many times I've been asked why p2 got created when there were other solutions around, namely OBR. To understand why p2 got created, it takes a little bit of understanding on the requirements that drove the work on p2, but also some history. So let's start with the requirements. The work on p2 started in 2006 / 2007 at at time where companies contributing to Eclipse were wondering how to increase

Tame your Java dependencies

2011-07-20T10:18:00.000-07:00

As an application becomes more modular but also bigger, one often ask him/herself questions like:- is there a more recent version (or a released version) of this library ?- is this library consistently used across the project?- why is this library being used?To address these, Milos Kleint, Matthew Piggott and I have been working on an Eclipse plug-in that allows to answer those questions directly

Oh my god, but where is m2e?

2011-06-23T07:42:00.000-07:00

Since yesterday's release of Indigo, there seems to have been some confusion about where m2e can be found. So here are some answers for you:- m2e is now a project of the Eclipse Foundation: http://www.eclipse.org- The landing page for the project is: http://www.eclipse.org/m2e- Bug reports go there: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=m2e and - User mailing list: https://

From Helios to Indigo is easy

2011-06-22T08:19:00.000-07:00

Indigo is now out. You've been running Helios for quite a while and have added tons of plug-ins on top of it and you don't really want to have to craft that install again. Here are below a few possibilities to ease with the update:Possibility 1 - Morphing Helios into Indigo The idea here is that you will upgrade your Helios install into an Indigo one. If all plug-ins have been playing nicely in

Montreal democamp notes

2011-05-25T21:27:00.000-07:00

Eclipse democamp in Montreal came and went. It was definitely a great event with a lot of participants and great presentations. Here is a quick recap of what was there.Remote provisioning with JMSIn this demo, Anthony demo'ed how he used the p2 API to remotely manage with JMS multiple nodes running p2. To help with the visual aspect of the demo, the managed application was an RCP app show casing

Montreal demo camp sold out!!!

2011-05-18T10:54:00.000-07:00

I just can't believe this. The Montreal demo camp is sold out (45 ppl) ! And the line up of presentation is really looking good. I'm definitely excited to be attending. Now off to dust off my Quebecois :)

Demo camp Montreal

2011-05-14T20:41:00.000-07:00

The Montreal demo camp is fast approaching! I'm sure it will be great event. Don't forget to sign up.

2012 Eclipse annual release revealed

2011-03-20T16:20:00.001-07:00

The 2012 Eclipse Annual release will be called Juno. This is still pending the approval of the EMO.

Naming Indigo +1, final vote

2011-03-15T11:29:00.000-07:00

It is now time to vote on the name of the 2012 release. The poll will stay open until Sunday night and we will reveal the winning name at EclipseCon.http://www.eclipse.org/indigo/planning/poll2012name.php

p2 at EclipseCon 2011

2011-03-14T20:03:00.001-07:00

This year again, there will be plenty of opportunity to learn and discuss p2 at EclipseCon. There are four talks: * p2, your savior or your achilles heel? Everything an Eclipse team needs to know about p2 * Discovering the p2 API's * Updates in the micro space * Raising the Eclipse Provisioning to the Clouds One BOF: * Fireside chat on p2 And a lot of p2 committers and enthusiasts ready to

Naming Indigo +1

2011-02-11T06:43:00.000-08:00

Yes, it is the time of the year where we are looking for a name for the release that will follow Indigo. Actually this year we are doing it earlier with the goal of revealing the name at EclipseCon (or shortly before) in order to facilitate the discussions around your plans so you don't have to keep talking about "Indigo +1" or "the release that will come after Indigo", but instead you can just

Eclipse demo Camp Guelph

2010-05-31T07:31:00.000-07:00

Sonatype is hosting a Maven Meetup and an Eclipse DemoCamp in Guelph, Ontario, and members of IBM, Sonatype and RIM will be a part of the presentation and demo lineups.So far, the DemoCamp presentations will cover topics such as API Tooling, Eclipse Integration, Tycho, and e4-based applications.Excited to hear about all this, register online at http://guestlistapp.com/events/21909 since seated

p2 API presentation posted

2010-05-12T06:20:00.000-07:00

The slides of my EclipseCon talk on the p2 API are now available on slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/PascalRapicault/discovering-the-p2-apiEnjoy!

More p2 stuffs

2010-03-24T15:17:00.000-07:00

Given yesterday's very busy p2 BOF, I have decided to organize another one tonight at 8:15 PM so we could continue the conversations we had started and even more.

Old colleagues vs new colleagues

2010-03-22T11:34:00.000-07:00

I'll let you guess which one I'm working for :)Btw, the "I love p2" shirts will be available at the Sonatype booth and at my talk this afternoon.

Your p2 guide at eclipsecon

2010-03-20T18:00:00.000-07:00

You can find below all the p2 related events at eclipsecon. Some of them are really focused on p2 while others are describing their usage of p2. Enjoy!Monday:From build to assembly to deployment: Using p2 to facilitate agile software development.Use EMF and Equinox p2 to manage device development environmentDiscovering the p2 APIIntroduction to Eclipse b3Building with BuckminsterTuesday:Managing

Moving on

2010-02-01T14:26:00.000-08:00

At the end of the week I will be leaving IBM / OTI. I have truly been honored to be part of the Eclipse Platform team and through this experience redefine the IDE, deliver RCP, shape up Java componentry and perform many other stunts. It has been 7 fantastic years.As hard as it is to leave, I'm very excited about the opportunity to join Sonatype [1] because they have an exciting portfolio of

Those lying numbers

2009-11-29T15:14:00.000-08:00

There are more than one way to contribute to open source projects. Unfortunately, eclipse dash only shows one aspect of it, the code; and even for this one aspect it does not capture the reality of things. Why is this? Dash counts CVS commit and this misses the key aspect of who authored the code. So why am I getting to this today? Because people are using dash as the scarecrow on diversity,

Project diversity

2009-11-29T14:04:00.000-08:00

When a project is not diverse, I find it a bit too easy to blame it on the actual company who started the project, the people steering it or how inviting to contribution the project is. Though I don't want to underplay those points, I argue that there are other things that matter: Relevance of the project: maybe the topic of your project does not interest anyone but you or your company. Sorry.

Nesting categories

2009-11-27T18:37:00.000-08:00

A recurring topic around categorization in p2 is the ability to nest categories.Like for the categorization of bundles, the trick consists in using the eclipse feature editor to express the dependencies and thus construct the desired nesting.Steps:First phase, creation of the inner category.Create a feature project called InnerCategory1. In our example this will be the feature containing the

Categorizing plug-ins

2009-11-27T17:40:00.000-08:00

Despite what is commonly believed and what I have repeated to several occasions, p2 does allow for the installation of anything, anything being for example just bundles. It just happens that today, with the practices adopted over the years, features have grown to be the primary way of delivering features.I'm now showing how to create a p2 repository whose category refers to bundles.Steps:Create a

p2 is going public

2009-11-01T11:56:00.000-08:00

I mean API public. Therefore we are soliciting input from people who have been using our provisional API or people that are looking into using it. To do so, please open a bug report capturing your use cases as well as stating the problems you have been experiencing with the current provisional API. Thanks in advance.

p2 community contribution

2009-08-27T16:26:00.000-07:00

If you are interested in contributing to p2 during the Helios (3.6.) cycle, please add your areas of interest on the wiki. It can either be new functionalities as well as things that you would like to see improved. Expressing your desire early will allow for other contributors to potentially join you and for the current set of p2 committers to plan for coming contributions.Thanks in advance.

p2 EclipseCon 09 slides posted

2009-08-03T01:47:00.000-07:00

I have just posted the slides for the talk and tutorial I gave on p2 at EclispeCon 2009.The talk goes over the p2 functionalities from a runtime perspective and the build / dev time aspects.The tutorial covers all the major aspects of p2. It ranges from the simple usage of product delivery to an in-depth presentation of the p2 concepts.Enjoy!

p2 metadata and resolution detailed

2009-07-30T06:34:00.001-07:00

Daniel Le Berre (one of the author of SAT4J) and myself have a paper accepted to IWOCE. The paper focuses on the dependency management aspect of p2. It describes the metadata used to express dependencies, the overall functioning of our resolver and a description of our propositional constraints based encoding. To conclude we describe the challenges to address in future releases.The paper is

OSGi DevCon Europe 2009 slides

2009-07-30T06:24:00.000-07:00

I have finally uploaded the slides of my OSGi DevCon talk on slideshare. The presentation goes over some of the p2 concepts and talks for the first time about 3 different ways to setup p2 depending on the constraints of your environment: milli, micro, nano.p2, modular provisioning for OSGiView more presentations from IBM.

p2 at OSGi DevCon Europe / Jazoon

2009-06-03T17:33:00.000-07:00

If everything goes well (understand my travel request gets approved), I will be presenting p2 at OSGi DevCon Europe / Jazoon in Zurich on June 22nd. If you want to meet to chat about p2, build or OSGi, please drop me a note (esp. if you are an IBM Rational customer) and we will schedule something during my short visit in Switzerland.

What is the Galileo repo?

2009-05-19T06:36:00.000-07:00

The Galileo repository is a one stop shop for all the bits and pieces of this release and thus facilitates consumers life. It guarantees by construction that all the pieces that are available from it are meant to work together.However, this does not mean that you will be able to select all the entries from the repository and successfully install them on top your SDK. Why? Because this repository

p2, call for community testing

2009-05-18T18:31:00.000-07:00

During 3.5, a release put under the theme of robustness for our team, p2 went through a lot of changes: new UI, improved error reporting, more robust downloads, improved transactionality of the installation,.. the list is endless. About 900 bugs have been closed. However, in order to avoid releasing 3.5 with big issues (which we think/hope we don't have), I'm calling out to you to try out p2 by

p2 related projects for GSOC

2009-03-31T09:11:00.000-07:00

I have added a few new projects to the Google Summer of Code idea page relating to p2. This brings the count of p2 related projects to 4. If you are a student and want to sign up for any of these topics or submit new ideas, feel free to do so. But don't forget to voice your interest on soc-dev@eclipse.org.To cut down the search through the proliferation of idea here are the 4 p2 topics:Web

p2 content at EclipseCon

2009-03-21T18:43:00.000-07:00

This year is a good year for p2 content at EclipseCon. Among the 26 sessions that got submitted and mentioned p2 in their abstract 13 of them have been accepted.The p2 fest starts with our tutorial on p2, Monday afternoon. However I'm sure that Andrew N. will have discussed p2 integration in the build in the context of the Common builder tutorial in the morning. Also Monday afternoon is Kai's RCP

FindBugs review

2009-02-25T17:55:00.000-08:00

Lured by the promise land of a code base free of any problem I have decided to give a try to FindBugs on my freshly updated I-build.Unfortunately FindBugs did not leave to the expectation since it failed with an NPE, which you would admit is rather ironic for such a tool...Anyway, last time it worked for me (a few months back) my experience was in the end not really more useful than today's one

Thoughts on Bespin and Eclipse

2009-02-19T20:23:00.000-08:00

I'm really stunned by the quite opposite reactions that the Mozilla and the Eclipse communities are having about Bespin.On the one hand it is like Bespin is the best thing since sliced bread, ("hey look now I have a cool editor in my web browser") on the other a quite mixed reaction is coming ("why the heck would I want to ever do this", "where is my code completion, type hierarchy", etc.)

Genuitec, SAT4J and p2

2008-12-04T17:09:00.000-08:00

I'm happy to announce that the Pulse team at Genuitec has signed a contract with the SAT4J team to fund research to provide better explanation support in p2. Yes you heard it right. Genuitec pays the SAT4J team (a research team from the CNRS / University of Lens - France) and the work is benefiting p2!I'm really excited about that, not only because this will improve p2, but also because Daniel

Reworked p2 workflows

2008-10-21T09:30:00.000-07:00

I'm happy to announce that last week I-build (I20081014) features reworked p2 workflows. It is currently work in progress and more will be done in 3.5.What is particularly interesting with this effort, is that it is the result of feedback directly gathered from the community through bugs, definition of personas [1], and meeting with the eclipse UI workgroup [2]. A truly open process and

2008-03-06T12:06:00.000-08:00

Today we officially announced the first SDK I-build including p2.This is pretty exciting as it is the first deployment outside of our immediate team of our completely new mechanism to install / uninstall and update eclipse-based applications.For the end-user, the important aspects of this new technology are:- A brand new UI with simplified workflows- A 4Mb installer for the SDK, yes 4000Kb-

A place for committers to roam together

2007-10-05T06:36:00.000-07:00

Among others, two topics regularly come back in various forums- diversity in the participation of a project- common components / code duplicationIn my opinion, one of the reason for these problems is the absence of communication / communication medium between the actual doers, the committers, thus leaving each of them ignorant of what others are doing and the problems they are facing, solving,

The equinox provisioning effort now has a name

2007-08-27T17:13:00.000-07:00

This afternoon team meeting gave the "equinox provisioning effort" the cool snappy name ofP2Yes, you read it right the letter P, then the number 2. It can stands for the followings in no particular order:- Provisioning Platform- Provisioning Partout (partout is the french word for everywhere)- Pascal's Provisioning (hey, why not? We do have the "Ed Merks Framework")- Provisioning, the 2nd

New PDE ad

2007-07-05T03:31:00.000-07:00

This ad from a phone company, could well be the new ad and motto for PDE :-)

iPhone and Eclipse

2007-07-03T16:59:00.000-07:00

iPhone may not get Java, but Eclipse gets the iPhone. Yes, Eclipse gets an IDE to "increase iPhone developement productivity". I don't know if this is the official SDK (my guess is no), but anyway I found this pretty cool. See http://www.aptana.com/iphone/

Europa + PDT + Subversive == happy wife

2007-06-27T10:57:00.001-07:00

Yes this is a weird equation, but I can tell you that since I set my wife up with PDT and a few components from Europa, she is the happiest PHP developer around.To my biggest surprise setting her up with an IDE doing PHP, subversion and remote exploration (these were her requirements) was really easy and the result worked well.Here are the steps that I followed: Downloaded the eclipse SDK (who

Helpwanted

2007-06-14T12:29:00.000-07:00

Marking bugs as "helpwanted" is fine and does capture the essence of the desire from a committer standpoint. However I believe this is not enough to engage with the community. Why? Because the codebase is huge and without knowledge of where to start, there is almost no chance for someone to succesfully help.So what? If you, committer, really want help, you should give a few entry points in the

Dream or reality?

2007-06-14T12:25:00.000-07:00

I know that I should not do software related stuffs until the last minute before going to bed, or otherwise I have a tormented night. Unfortunately yesterday night I did not respect that... but instead of having a nightmare and I ended up having the sweet dream that fed up by the limitations of java, the eclipse team would set on a journey to develop java extensions making the development faster,

A fine polish item for the community

2007-04-04T06:24:00.000-07:00

We (the equinox team), after a lengthy discussion, moved out of our bucket the bug 155897 into the UI one. This bug is about finding a way to expose to the end user which bundles are not resolved and why. Unfortunately the UI team is just overbooked. Therefore if you want to see this bug fixed, it is the right moment to step up and provide a patch for inclusion in M7. Why can / should this item

ORBIT is ready for prime time

2007-03-22T07:49:00.000-07:00

Orbit is now ready for prime-time. However don't ask us to put in Orbit your favorite jar because Orbit is *not* a super general repository. As per the project charter you will only find in here the libraries that other eclipse projects need. In fact the creation of orbit stemmed from the problem experienced in Callisto where each projects had their own copy of common.logging and the like which

Paving the road to a new update manager, the first block

2007-03-03T08:15:00.000-08:00

I've finally sent the annoucement email mentionning the creation of the provisioning incubator. I'm disappointed that I could not sent it earlier to give people more time to see what is going on before eclipsecon, but the last minute hacking for our "cool stuffs in equinox" demo (wednesday morning 10am) lasted longer than I expected :-) Oh well.... Regrets aside, I'm really exited because this

On the road to a new update manager

2007-02-19T12:29:00.000-08:00

In order to start paving the road to a new update manager, a provisioning work area is being put to vote on the equinox incubator. The proposal can be found here; and you can vote on the equinox-dev mailing list.

Multiple versions of the same bundle during the build

2007-02-05T19:40:00.000-08:00

Following the theme "pde to support multiple versions", I've just released the support for multiple versions in PDE Build. This means that you can now build a product / feature made of multiple versions of the same bundle (given that they are not marked singleton). How do you do that: - In the feature.xml, identify the plugin and replace the 0.0.0 by the first three segments of the desired

From visual studio to CDT

2006-12-12T03:48:00.000-08:00

An article explaining how to import a simple VS C/C++ project into CDT.

Design patterns for UI

2006-10-12T09:46:00.000-07:00

While reading a post from Grady Booch, I came across the yahoo design pattern library which seems to be a very interesting concept that could be adopted by the user interface best practices working group to publish their results.

Being rich

2006-10-01T15:06:00.000-07:00

No, I'm not commenting about my lifestyle , I'm just talking about RCP, the Really Cool Platform. Lately I've been annoyed by this tendancy to call anything built on top of eclipse, an RCP application. This is just wrong as it creates confusion around a concept not easy to understand, and it does not promote SWT and/or JFace where they are the real "heros". So what does it take to be rich?

France 7 - Italy 0

2006-07-10T09:33:00.000-07:00

Italy can have all the word cup they want, but they still don't have a committer in the SDK whereas France is strongly represented with 7 active people and 4 retirees :-)Congrats for the cup Italy.

Setting the Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment

2006-07-07T12:40:00.000-07:00

In 3.2, each bundle included in the Eclipse SDK got its "required execution environments" set. The two main motivations were: Carefully controlling the set of APIs we use from the JRE and reduce our dependencies Express in an API way the fact that some bundles could run on lower configurations than the one recommended by the platform (for example SWT and OSGi can run on foundation) By doing

Callisto

2006-06-30T17:15:00.000-07:00

Earlier today, like a few others I was at the foundation and I actually saw Denis putting the final touch to callisto. That was really cool and exciting since it represented for us 'the' last final step to make our work available to everybody. Thanks again Denis, Matt and Nathan for bearing with us in your office while we were drinking your beers and watching you work.By the way next time, get

Release party at the foundation?

2006-06-28T06:41:00.000-07:00

Rumor has been growing that once Denis will have released the eclipse bytes to an ecstatic crowd all hyped up by the Ian's press releases, the foundation will host a release party where we can all watch the eclipse servers and the committers go red.

Headless build of products finally automated

2006-06-22T06:43:00.000-07:00

For the longest time (two release cycles 3.0 and 3.1), it was a pain to automate the build of your RCP apps. The PDE Build team heard you and now the pain is gone!Since 3.2, PDE Build provides support to build RCP applications from .product files. For more details, see the help (Plug-in Development Environment Guide > Tasks > Building an RCP Application from a product configuration).

Community plan items

2006-06-21T19:35:00.000-07:00

As various teams are now planning 3.3 or whatever comes next, I would like to suggest the addition of a new kind of plan item, the community item.What would it be: A work item bringing value add to eclipse, but where the effort would be driven by the community instead of the eclipse teams themselves. Such items should be relatively self contained (for example: implement a new refactoring,