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Recently I have ported my e4 Contacts Demo to Tom Schindl’s e(fx)clipse. Besides a very nice JavaFX tooling integration into the Eclipse IDE, Tom also started a JavaFX 2.0 based rendering engine for Eclipse 4.x  based applications. I enhanced the JavaFX renderer just a little …

Inspired by Tom Schindl’s e(fx)clipse (see his blog), I have spent some time investigating the CSS styling capabilities of JavaFX 2.0. I have to admit I like it a lot! The styling provides everything out of the box that I had wished for. The only …

One thing that has bothered me (and recently one of my customers) a lot was that we could not display Eclipse RCP splash screens when starting the application using Java WebStart. But now I got it working, here is the recipe: 1) In your main …

After 2 years I released a new version of my free Java date picker JCalendar. You find the download, demo and documentation of the stable release and the current integration build at the project homepage. Here are the new and noteworthy things: Buttons for “Today” …

I recently updated my MP3 Manager Eclipse RCP demo to version 3.7.0. These things are new: * Java WebStart support (launcher see below) * New target platform Eclipse 3.7.0 * Integrated Tycho 0.12.0 build * 3.7.0 compliant headless p2-enabled build * 3.7.0 target definition project The …

At June 20th, 2011, the Eclipse Demo Camp took place at the Siemens campus in Munich, Germany. From my point of view, the event was just great. We had 165 attendees (which might be a new record for a German Indigo demo camp), 12 excellent …

There are only 11 days left until the Eclipse Demo Camp Munich on June 20th 2011, hosted by Siemens AG. I closed the Siemens-only registration and now we have 21 more seats available for public registration. You can register again at http://democampmunich.eventbrite.com. Currently we have …

I am pretty exited that we  sold out the regular free tickets for the Eclipse Demo Camp @ Siemens (in Munich, Germany)! There are only a few reserved tickets left for Siemens employees. Currently we have 174 registered attendees. Since the regular tickets (ticket type: …

The JAX conference is over and I liked it a lot! Many thanks to all the attendees of my sessions and tutorials for the feedback and the great discussions. Here are the slides from my sessions about Eclipse 4.x and OSGi/Vaadin. You can download the …

I am happy to announce the Eclipse Demo Camp @ Siemens in Munich, Germany. Excellent speakers with interesting demos/talks will make this demo camp an Eclipse fest! The latest event details and agenda you always find at the Wiki page. Location Location: Siemens AG, Forum …