Some of the DTG team had lunch the other day with Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. It is always a pleasure to meet with the pre-eminent evangelist for Eclipse. During lunch Mike reminded us of several important Eclipse milestones (not the software milestone kind).
Happy 5th birthday Eclipse celebrations will be happening around the world on or about November 7th. Go to the birthday party web site at http://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipsebirthday5/birthdayparties.php. Events are taking place in bars and brew pubs around the world in cities including: Austin, Bangalore , Beijing, Boston, Budapest, Dallas, Hyderabad, Istanbul, Keystone, London, Luxembourg, Neuchatel, New York, Ottawa, Paris, Portland, Raleigh, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Shanghai, Stuttgart, Tel Aviv, Toronto, Williamsport, Winnipeg, Zurich. You might run into some DTG employees in a few of the cities. Ask them about the upcoming release of JBuilder “Peloton”.
The EclipseCon 2007 call for participation is now open. Borland’s own Rich Gronback (GMF project lead) is the program chair for the 2007 conference. From the “Call for Participation” page, the important dates are:
- November 1st - Tutorial proposals must be in.
- November 15th - Tutorials chosen.
- December 1st - Long Talks and Panel proposals must be in.
- December 30th - Long Talks and Panels chosen.
- January 15th - Short Talks and Demos proposals must be in.
- January 30th - Short Talks and Demos chosen.
The Eclipse Project 3.3 draft plan is available (last updated September 4, 2006) at http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/eclipse_project_plan_3_3.html. Eclipse 3.3 proposed items are grouped into six major work areas - Components, Consumability, Java, Vista, UI Eevolution, and API.
Some of the proposed 3.3 work includes enhanced support for use and support of software components, improved support for provisioning, Incremental plug-in build, application model that significantly decouples the application from the rest of the system, OSGi R5 specification work, Server side support, improving the launch experience, search based navigation, continued overall performance and memory consumption work, more refactorings, enhanced Java annotation processing tooling, support for Java 6 debugging features, full support for SWT Win32 on Microsoft Windows Vista, port of SWT to WinFX and WPF, improve workbench usability, improve multi-instance view management, JFace enhancements, Mozilla everywhere, Adopt the Eclipse file system, provide access to more native controls, custom widget API support, and APIs for custom debugger integration.
Thanks for spending your lunch time with us Mike!
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