BlogJava-『一只小蚂蚁』的专栏-随笔分类-Eclipsehttp://www.blogjava.net/qixiangnj/category/14809.html<strong>Never Give UP!</strong>zh-cnSun, 29 Apr 2007 09:41:04 GMTSun, 29 Apr 2007 09:41:04 GMT60Eclipse Sold to Microsofthttp://www.blogjava.net/qixiangnj/archive/2007/04/01/107767.htmlThomas ChiThomas ChiSun, 01 Apr 2007 07:55:00 GMThttp://www.blogjava.net/qixiangnj/archive/2007/04/01/107767.htmlhttp://www.blogjava.net/qixiangnj/comments/107767.htmlhttp://www.blogjava.net/qixiangnj/archive/2007/04/01/107767.html#Feedback3http://www.blogjava.net/qixiangnj/comments/commentRss/107767.htmlhttp://www.blogjava.net/qixiangnj/services/trackbacks/107767.htmlhttp://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t92775.rhtml

In conclusion to months of negotiations and meetings, Eclipse.org has finally announced that Microsoft will be purchasing the Eclipse project in its entirety as of June 11 th , 2007. According to Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation:
We at the Eclipse Foundation are always on the look-out for ways to improve penetration and increase Eclipse's effectiveness as a product. We believe that we've reached the full extent of what any project can accomplish within the confines of Open Source. As of April 1 st , we will begin transitioning our entire code base from the EPL to a closed-source license which Microsoft Corporation is presently drafting for us. Once this transition is complete, we will transfer ownership and hosting of the Eclipse project to Microsoft. We believe that this is the best step possible for our users and for our developers.

Microsoft declined to comment when I contacted them. However, the fact that they are buying Eclipse seems to indicate that they are branching out a little bit into more of the generalized tool sector. Perhaps we'll see a port of OSGi to .NET in the near future? I was made aware of the fact that the new port of SWT to the Windows Presentation Framework has been instigated and almost solely funded by Microsoft in preparation for the hand-off.

One little tidbit I was able to dredge up is that this is by no means a sign that Microsoft is abandoning VisualStudio.NET. Rather, the Eclipse platform will be partially rewritten in C# (to discourage future Open Source contributions) and integrated into VisualStudio. Rumor has it that this new platform will be christened "MS Visual E".

However, not all of the community seems to be taking this news very well. Steve Northover, the father of SWT, made a few suggestions to the executives about where the deal would be more appropriately fitted before storming out of the meeting on the way to his new position at Sun Microsystems. Apparently he'll be working as an intern on the NetBeans project, writing Swing javadoc.

Regarding the rest of the Eclipse user base, the Eclipse Foundation has stated that they are very interesting in any concerns or comments the community may have. As a gesture of friendship and a sign of how future relations between Microsoft and the Eclipse Foundation will be, Microsoft has established a toll-free hotline (staffed by their excellent technical support staff) which should be used to communicate with the Eclipse Foundation from now on. This number will be released along with the rest of the information regarding the transaction at an unspecified date. In the mean time, a wiki page has been created to host what little information has leaked into the community sector.

For the moment, the Europa release schedule is being suspended, as it would be terribly inconvenient to have a major release right in the middle of a transition of this magnitude. All Europa release-train projects are being temporarily closed (at the CVS level) and their developers are being invited to "seek part-time employment" until Microsoft is ready to resume development on the platform, presumably sometime next year. (though, after Vista, who knows what "sometime next year" really means?)

In conclusion, we should see some interesting changes in the coming months. Let's just hope Microsoft is as skillful in the next few years managing Eclipse as it has been with all of its acquisitions in the past. If we're lucky, we may even be allowed to look at a solar-lunar occult in two or three years without getting a cease and desist for unauthorized use of a trademarked brand. Only time will tell.

Thomas Chi 2007-04-01 15:55 发表评论
]]>Eclipse SQL Explorer 3 releasedhttp://www.blogjava.net/qixiangnj/archive/2006/09/02/67239.htmlThomas ChiThomas ChiSat, 02 Sep 2006 02:50:00 GMThttp://www.blogjava.net/qixiangnj/archive/2006/09/02/67239.htmlhttp://www.blogjava.net/qixiangnj/comments/67239.htmlhttp://www.blogjava.net/qixiangnj/archive/2006/09/02/67239.html#Feedback0http://www.blogjava.net/qixiangnj/comments/commentRss/67239.htmlhttp://www.blogjava.net/qixiangnj/services/trackbacks/67239.htmlhttp://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=42009

Eclipse SQL Explorer 3, an Eclipse plugin that allows you to query and browse any JDBC compliant database, has been released. It shows data about the database structure as well as many other features (such as providing database-specific features for DB2, Oracle, and MySQL); it's also a standalone client.

Thomas Chi 2006-09-02 10:50 发表评论
]]>Crystal Reports For Eclipse Noteshttp://www.blogjava.net/qixiangnj/archive/2006/08/08/62396.htmlThomas ChiThomas ChiTue, 08 Aug 2006 10:06:00 GMThttp://www.blogjava.net/qixiangnj/archive/2006/08/08/62396.htmlhttp://www.blogjava.net/qixiangnj/comments/62396.htmlhttp://www.blogjava.net/qixiangnj/archive/2006/08/08/62396.html#Feedback2http://www.blogjava.net/qixiangnj/comments/commentRss/62396.htmlhttp://www.blogjava.net/qixiangnj/services/trackbacks/62396.htmlhttp://www.theserverside.com/上看到Crystal Reports for Eclipse 1.0正式版出来的消息，决定试用一下。
首先下载安装，有四种安装方式：
  • Minimum Requirements for Crystal Reports for Eclipse
  • Installing Crystal Reports for Eclipse via the Update Manager
  • Manual Installation - Download the Crystal Reports for Eclipse Runtime
  • All-in-one Installation

    分别是：最小化安装、通过Eclipse中的Update Manager安装、手动安装和完整安装。其中手动安装是在最小话安装的基础上增加Crystal Reports for Eclipse(contains the Designer, Runtime Libraries, and IDE Tooling)和Language Pack #1(or Language Pack #2).
    需要注意的是，如果选择通过Update Manager安装，将在产生的报表中生成水印。

    我使用的是Eclipse 3.2，采用的是手动安装的方式（没安装语言包，默认英语就OK啦，）。
    下载地址：
    1.http://diamond.businessobjects.com/node/434
    2.http://diamond.businessobjects.com/node/435

    开始试用：
    从http://diamond.businessobjects.com/node/320上下载“CR4E_Getting Started Guide.pdf”。该文档采用step by step的方式，详细地介绍了一个Crystal Reports的应用。
    具体步骤这里不再赘述。示例中数据源是采用Apache的开源数据库Derby，示例中已经包含它。所以不需要安装额外的数据库，整个step by step的过程，显得比较方便。

    在Guide的后半部分，介绍了提供的“代码片段”（Snippets）功能。该功能个人觉得很强大，可以通过简单的拖拽来实现例如打开报表、保存报表成pdf格式等功能。



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