Arthur Ryman

The Eclipse Open Source Integrated Development Environment (IDE) (see http://eclipse.org) is rapidly gaining popularity among Java developers primarily because of its excellent Java Development Tools (JDT) and its highly extensible plug-in architecture. Extensibility is, in fact, one of the defining characteristics of Eclipse. As the Eclipse home page says, "Eclipse is a kind of universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular." Although Eclipse is itself a Java application, all tools, including JDT, are on an equal footing in that they extend the Eclipse platform via well-defined extension points. Of course, an infinitely extensible, but empty, platform might be interesting to tool vendors, but very boring for developers. Therefore... (more)

Eclipse WTP Usage Reaches a New High - 9000' (2743m)

Eclipse WTP Usage Reaches a New High - 9000' (2743m) I'm writing from a breathtaking mountain summit in Keystone, Colorado where I've been giving talks on Developing Web Services with Eclipse to a few hundred software developers. Yes, I am at the aptly named Colorado Software Summit, which is currently in its fourteenth year of operation. The venue, Keystone Resort, is breathtaking both fo... (more)

Arthur Ryman's Eclipse Blog: Sun at EclipseCon 2006; The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Sun at EclipseCon 2006: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Unlike last year's event, there was no keynote speaker from Sun. Nevertheless, Sun's presence was noticed last week at the Santa Clara Convention Center. I'd like to mention a few high and low points here. First The Good. Undoubtedly the high point for me was finally meeting Ludo Champenois who is leading the GlassFish project at java.n... (more)

The Pragmatics Of Java Debugging

Essential to the development of complex systems are tools that help the developer locate, analyze, and fix problems. Debuggers provide support for this by letting a developer inspect the internal state of a program at runtime, as well as suspend and resume execution statement by statement. The originators of the Java programming language defined a debugging architecture, but since its con... (more)

Arthur Ryman's Eclipse Blog: WSDL 2.0 Implementation Progress - Apache Woden Milestone 3 Declared!

WSDL 2.0 Implementation Progress: Apache Woden Milestone 3 Declared! The Apache Woden project is a reference implementation of the W3C WSDL 2.0 specification which is now a Candidate Recommendation. The project is looking for help so here's a great opportunity for Java developers to contribute to the advancement of a major new Web Services standard. Here's the news annoucement: Congratulat... (more)