The Eclipse Development Process (EDP) is a process that exists to help you and your project be successful. We start with a discussion of the principles that underlie the EDP and why they are important to you as a committer. We then discuss the various processes that are in place to ensure that principles are maintained. More specifically, this talk discusses how the EDP will help you reach out to your community of users and adopters. It includes heavy discussion of community development, openness, transparency, IP cleanliness and more.

Total running time will be approximately 1 hour

9:00 am PST / 12:00 pm EST / 5:00 pm GMT - Convert to other time zones

Thanks to Adobe for contributing their Adobe Acrobat Connect product to host this webinar.

How platform independent are Eclipse applications in practice? This talk looks at some of the differences between operating systems supported by Eclipse with respect to RCP applications and examines their effects on usability, development and testing.

This webinar is aimed at developers, project managers and testers (automated and manual) working on RCP applications that are intended to run on more than one platform. Participants will learn about large and small differences between the platforms. Some of these differences must simply be considered in the development and testing process, others mean that testing, documentation and development are affected.

Some of the points raised include:

• How widgets can behave differently on the platforms
• Variation in the library support for each platform
• Other GUI considerations such as tooltips, toolbars, buttons and focus

Automated testers will also benefit from the information and examples in the talk. Ideally, only one automated test should be necessary to test all versions of an application. Some of the differences between the platforms make this aim difficult, and some differences mean finding a lowest common denominator to be able to write tests. The variation between the platforms is therefore something which must be considered at the test planning stage, and in the test design itself.

Participants will learn to consider and deal with any variations between platforms to make cross-platform projects a success.

Total running time will be approximately 1 hour

8:00 am PST / 11:00 am EST / 4:00 pm GMT - Convert to other time zones

Thanks to Adobe for contributing their Adobe Acrobat Connect product to host this webinar.

The Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse member companies are running a series of training classes on Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), Equinox & OSGi and Modeling from October 19 to December 4, 2009.

Lynn and Markus give an overview of the training series, focusing on the modeling course. Markus is a trainer from itemis, one of the Eclipse members running classes this fall. He discusses the main components of modeling, shows an example from the class and explains what to expect in the Modeling course.

For more information on the training schedule, course outlines and registration, visit www.eclipse.org/go/training.

Total running time 06:45 minutes

The Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse member companies are running a series of training classes on Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), Equinox & OSGi and Modeling from October 19 to December 4, 2009.

In this webinar, Lynn gives an overview of the training series. Jan, a trainer from participating member company Weigle Wilczek, highlights the Developing with RCP class. He explains why developers choose RCP, gives a coding example of what to expect in the RCP course and describes the Developing with RCP course outline.

See www.eclipse.org/go/training for the full training schedule, all course outlines and registration info.

Total running time 05:48 minutes

Cloud computing is one of the hottest topics currently discussed in the IT sector. Although there are many different definitions of the term 'Cloud', providing remote services is at the center of Cloud computing. This webinar will demonstrate how "goodies" from different Eclipse projects can be combined to build applications on Cloud infrastructures.

Together, Equinox and OSGi provide a fundamental infrastructure for defining modules, managing lifecycles and facilitating collaboration between modules. Both are addressing the programming challenges in dynamic, modular and extensible systems.

The webinar will start with a short introduction to Cloud computing. Using the g-Eclipse framework, a distributed, virtual infrastructure will be set-up. Leveraging OSGi and ECF frameworks, a manageable distributed runtime will be started in order to deploy an application dynamically. The front end for the application will be provided with the support of the RAP application. The live demonstration will show how "goodies" from the Eclipse ecosystem can be combined to build a future SaaS platform.

Total running time will be approximately 1 hour

8:00 am PDT / 11:00 am EDT / 3:00 pm GMT - Convert to other time zones

Thanks to Adobe for contributing their Adobe Acrobat Connect product to host this webinar.

This webinar will engage participants in the process of developing a custom Dojo widget using the source editors provided by the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP). The focus will be on demonstrating how WTP's suite of editors can be used together to quickly produce a practical, real-world application. Nick will highlight capabilities built into each editor such as validation, syntax highlighting and content assist. Targeted participants are developers who are curious about web development or web developers interested in seeing WTP's capabilities.

9:00 am PDT / 12:00 pm EDT / 4:00 pm GMT - Convert to other time zones

Total running time will be approximately 1 hour

Thanks to Adobe for contributing their Adobe Acrobat Connect product to host this webinar.

The Eclipse Development Process (EDP) is a process that exists to help you and your project be successful. We start with a discussion of the principles that underlie the EDP and why they are important to you as a committer. We then discuss the various processes that are in place to ensure that principles are maintained. More specifically, this talk discusses how the EDP will help you reach out to your community of users and adopters. It includes heavy discussion of community development, openness, transparency, IP cleanliness and more.

Total running time will be approximately 1 hour

9:00 am PST / 12:00 pm EST / 5:00 pm GMT - Convert to other time zones

Thanks to Adobe for contributing their Adobe Acrobat Connect product to host this webinar.

Cloud computing is one of the hottest topics currently discussed in the IT sector. Although there are many different definitions of the term 'Cloud', providing remote services is at the center of Cloud computing. This webinar will demonstrate how "goodies" from different Eclipse projects can be combined to build applications on Cloud infrastructures.

Together, Equinox and OSGi provide a fundamental infrastructure for defining modules, managing lifecycles and facilitating collaboration between modules. Both are addressing the programming challenges in dynamic, modular and extensible systems.

The webinar will start with a short introduction to Cloud computing. Using the g-Eclipse framework, a distributed, virtual infrastructure will be set-up. Leveraging OSGi and ECF frameworks, a manageable distributed runtime will be started in order to deploy an application dynamically. The front end for the application will be provided with the support of the RAP application. The live demonstration will show how "goodies" from the Eclipse ecosystem can be combined to build a future SaaS platform.

Total running time 53:29 minutes

Thanks to Adobe for contributing their Adobe Acrobat Connect product to host this webinar.

There is more than Require-Bundle? Other things than the Extension-Registry for extensibility? Bundles can be really dynamic, without restarting the system? Wow, this sounds strange - at least to many Eclipse developers.

This webinar gives a brief overview of what OSGi gives you to implement real modular and dynamic applications, including Import-Package vs. Require-Bundle, OSGi-Services and where to use them in Eclipse-based apps, and more.

Total running time 50:25 minutes

Thanks to Adobe for contributing their Adobe Acrobat Connect product to host this webinar.

Programming SWT/JFace user-interfaces in Java often involves a lot of repetitive boiler-plate code that is overly verbose and hard to map to the user-interface visually. This can significantly hinder maintainability and productivity for Eclipse RCP projects.

Enter Glimmer; a JRuby API for SWT that takes advantage of the expressive Ruby language to provide a simple user-interface DSL (domain-specific language). Developers can rely on Glimmer to build the presentation layer of desktop applications in Ruby while keeping the business logic in Java, or alternatively do complete desktop application development in Ruby. Glimmer comes with built-in data-binding support to greatly facilitate writing maintainable and testable desktop application code.

In this webinar, I will introduce Glimmer, demo the latest features by contrasting the code of an application written in both Glimmer and classic SWT, provide a quick update on the status of the project and finally, have a Q&A and feedback session.

Total running time will be approximately 1 hour

9:00 am PDT / 12:00 pm EDT / 4:00 pm GMT - Convert to other time zones

Thanks to Adobe for contributing their Adobe Acrobat Connect product to host this webinar.