Excellent Eclipse CNF Article

Zambrovski, yes the same expert who saved my head three months ago, has written an excellent follow up to his article on Eclipse CNF ing on the main feature of the CNF – the contribution of content to the same navigator by several independent plug-ins. Zambrovski explains some minor changes introduced to the CNF in the Gallileo Edition, and then focuses on the content itself and finally provide an overview of how the action contributions can be provided. In the end of the post, he also presents some ideas on control of dynamic content .

The source code to this post is available for download. It includes two plug-in projects (the CNF and the child content) which are packaged into a small RCP application.

Click here to read the complete article.

Build a Next Gen Platform for Pervasive, Component-based Applications and Tool

The Eclipse platform was first targeted at building an extensible IDE component framework. It has since grown to include a Rich Client Platform, enabling whole new categories of scenarios and domains. As the software landscape changes, so must the Eclipse platform in order to remain relevant and vibrant. These trend lines point to web technologies, new user interface metaphors, and distributed infrastructure. Now is the time to rethink elements of the platform so that Eclipse may remain at the forefront of application development.

The mission of the e4 project is to build a next generation platform for pervasive, component-based applications and tools.

A wealth of technical information on e4 can be found on the e4 wiki page. The wiki also provides more detailed planning information, and a variety of channels for communicating with the e4 developers: http://wiki.eclipse.org/e4

Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11gR1 released on Eclipse 3.5 and 3.4

Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE), the #1 free development environment for Oracle WebLogic Server, is now available on new brand new Eclipse 3.5, as well as 3.4. This release introduces new tools for Oracle WebLogic Server, easier WebLogic / EclipseLink configuration, and new WebLogic JAX-WS Web Services tools. This free set of certified Eclipse plug-ins is designed to help develop, deploy, debug, and test applications for Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Database. It installs as a plug-in to your existing Eclipse, or will install Eclipse for you.

OEPE 11gR1 combines innovative commercial features with Oracle's open source contributions to the Eclipse platform. Eclipse developers targeting WebLogic Server, Java SE, Java EE, Web Services, XML, the Spring Framework, and database development can simply use Oracle's Eclipse Update site to access these free tools:

Server plug-ins for multiple versions of Oracle WebLogic

Vendor – specific WebLogic support like the new weblogic-ejb-jar.xml and JSR88 Editors

JAX-WS Web Service development and testing tools, including the new JAX-WS Bindings Customization Editor.

Object – Relational Mapping Workbench (JPA Entity Editor, Mapping Wizards)

Spring IDE Project and Spring code generation wizards, including the new Java Web Service from a Spring Bean wizard.

Core WebLogic Server IDE Support (Deployment Descriptor Editors, Shared Java EE Libraries, etc)

Oracle Database Tools (Schema Viewer, DDL generation)