Which license is the best license for business? For community? For academia? For government? What are the key factors that influence the decision regarding an open source license? Are there certain things you should look out for?

This debate featured a panel of experts to examine the key factors influencing the decision to choose a particular license, as well as the subtle differences between the GPL, EPL, and BSD licences. These licenses cover a good range of the open source license spectrum.

The panel was:

• Eclipse Foundation Executive Director, Mike Milinkovich
• Alfresco VP Business Development, Matt Asay
• Coverity Open Source Strategist, David Maxwell

With the Eclipse Galileo release, the Cocoa port for Mac graduated from incubation. However, the Eclipse Packaging Project (EPP) has limited resources and they can not produce the packages for every hardware/OS platform on which Eclipse is known to run. Of particular interest to me is the conspicuous absence of EPP package builds for 64-bit OS X. So, what do we do if we want to make full use of all the 64-bit goodness of our operating system and Java 6 JVM? Well, it turns out that re-constructing the EPP packages from the "base platform" SDK is not all that difficult.

The URL of the EPP update site used in the screencast is http://download.eclipse.org/technology/epp/packages/galileo/

UPDATE: The package downloads page has been updated so that the Mac 64-bit SDK download is available directly, rather than having to go through the "Other Downloads" page. This makes the process a bit simpler than what is demonstrated in the screencast. If you're following this process for 64-bit Cocoa on OS X, you can get the Platform SDK directly in the Eclipse Classic section.

The WireframeSketcher Spy plugin allows you to convert existing SWT UI to a mockup. Thus when you to revise some existing UI you don't need to start from zero.

How does it work? Open the dialog you want to mockup. Press Alt-Shift-F2 and the XML of the mockup is put into the clipboard. Open the “New Screen” wizard, and on the second page paste the XML. Hit Finish and you are done!

Not long ago the notion of a tool that hides more of the program than it shows sounded crazy. To some it probably still does. But as Mylyn continues its rapid adoption, hundreds of thousands of developers are already part of the next big step in the evolution of the IDE. Tasks are more important than files, focus is more important than features, and an explicit context is the biggest productivity boost since code completion. This talk discusses how Java, OSGi, Eclipse, Mylyn, and a combination of open source frameworks and commercial extensions like Tasktop have enabled this transformation. It then reviews lessons learned for the next generation of tool innovations, and looks ahead at how we are redefining the “I” of the IDE.

Total running time 45:25 minutes

The Eclipse tools for Silverlight project, aka eclipse4SL, is an eclipse plug-in that enables Eclipse developers to use the Eclipse IDE to create applications that run on the Microsoft Silverlight runtime platform. The interoperability scenarios this project enables are very interesting, as it provides more choices to Java/Eclipse developers and opens up new opportunities for Silverlight adoption. This demo gives an overview of the developer experience of creating a basic Silverlight application in Eclipse, shows how collaborating with a designer could work, and gives a sample Silverlight application talking to a Java web service.

More on http://www.eclipse4sl.org.

Total running time 09:09 minutes

Semantic UI Framework is a productivity framework that is developed by OnPositive Technologies and is licensed under EPL license.

Framework uses xml files to describe UI structure and metadata descriptions (Java annotations or xml files) to describe details of UI and data binding. Framework supports tracking of changes and features rich undo redo support. Also, framework includes tooling support for tag libraries creation and WTP based editor for editing GUI description files. Semantic UI Framework allows you to quickly build interactive, Java-based rich client applications based on SWT/JFace. (More rendering backends are planned later) .

Total running time 07:35 minutes

In this episode of SE-Radio, Martin Lippert talks with Jeff McAffer about building platforms. We start with a brief discussion about what a platform is in contrast to a framework or an application. Drawing from his experiences working on the Eclipse platform for years, Jeff talks with us about how to develop platforms, why developing a platform is different from developing an application, what makes a good platform great, and why API design becomes so extremely important for platforms. He provides us with some insights on how the development process and the client collaboration for platform development could look like and what has and has not worked in the past.

Total running time 57:09 minutes

Now that we have ADT officially released and world's first Android-powered phone announced it's a good time to take a second look at Android Development Tools (ADT).

The first screencast introduces installation and usage of ADT within the Eclipse Ganymede SR1 environment - total running time 03:10 minutes.

The second screencast shows ADT in declarative UI development - total running time 02:30 minutes.

PHPDeveloperBlog.com presents: How to install and use Eclipse--a free, open source platform--as a professional Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for developing PHP applications. Code coloring, intellisense, debugging and everything else programmers expect in an IDE are available in a PHP IDE for free!

Total running time 08:50 minutes