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

FOSSLC and the University of Ottawa's Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Student Branch hosted an Eclipse Bootcamp on October 8, 2009. Wayne Beaton from the Eclipse Foundation presented an Introduction to Eclipse and Mylyn.

This talk gives a general overview of Eclipse followed by some demos of the Mylyn project. Mylyn provides features for keeping track of bugs and tasks. Mylyn is even capable of reconfiguring your workspace based on the bug/task you are working on.

Thanks to FOSSLC for recording the Bootcamp presentations.

Total running time 44:05 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.

Tony Bailetti is the Director of Ontario's Talent First Network and the Executive Director of Coral CEA. He holds a tenured faculty appointment in both the Eric Sprott School of Business and the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University. Tony is one of the keynote speakers at Eclipse Summit Europe 2009 and will speak on Open Source Maturity Curve and Ecosystems Interactions - Lessons Learned .

In this podcast, Ian Skerrett from the Eclipse Foundation talks to Tony Don about the stages of the open source maturity curve and why organizations benefit from tapping into ecosystems.

Total running time 12:39 minutes

Eclipse Summit Europe takes place October 27-29, 2009 in Ludwigsburg, Germany. See www.eclipsesummit.org for more information.

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.

Wayne and Lynn talk about what's new and cool at the Foundation for October 2009. This month, they discuss Eclipse Summit Europe, DemoCamps, EclipseRT Days, project plans and the EGit project.

Total running time 09:17 minutes

Don Syme is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge and is the creator of the F# programming language. Don is one of the keynote speakers at Eclipse Summit Europe 2009 and will give a talk titled Taking Functional Programming into the Mainstream.

In this podcast, Ian Skerrett from the Eclipse Foundation interviews Don about his work in functional programming. Don explains why functional programming is important, what people are doing with F# and other languages currently, and whether functional programming languages need new types of tooling.

Total running time 13:07 minutes

Eclipse Summit Europe takes place October 27-29, 2009 in Ludwigsburg, Germany. See www.eclipsesummit.org for more information.