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The first Eclipse 4 RCP course is scheduled from October 1 to October 5 2012 and will take place in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands. This will be the first Eclipse 4 RCP Training from vogella which is held in english. Visit our Training Site for more details on this course.

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This week I’m in the process of delivering a 5 days Eclipse 4 training together with Marcel Bruch and M7 really shines in terms of stability.

M7 contains lots of small enhancements which make adapting Eclipse 4 much nicer, my personal favorite is Bug report: Application.e4xmi should be optional for which Sopot Cela provided a patch. With this patch you can convert an Eclipse plug-in into an Eclipse 4 application without creating manually any extension in the plugin.xml file.

Please give Eclipse 4 M7 a try and report bugs you find in Bugzilla.

I also thinks its about time to release my Eclipse 4 book for the Kindle. This will be an “Early Access Version” due to the fact that Eclipse 4 is still not final and that certains chapters still need some rework but should hopefully be a good reference. I plan to provide updates for this version once Eclipse 4 is released via the Kindle store.

I hope that I will be able to publish this version of the Eclipse 4 book next week. Fingers crossed.

I give both detail examples for model fragments and processors and the whole examples is based on my Eclipse 4 tutorial.

Extending the application model via other plug-ins is a bit challenging, therefore I hope this tutorial help.

Pauls tip make it easy, here is an example which will add EGit, Mylyn and EMF to your Eclipse instance.

eclipse/eclipse \
-application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director \
-noSplash \
-repository \
http://download.eclipse.org/releases/juno \
-installIUs \
org.eclipse.egit.feature.group,\
org.eclipse.jgit.feature.group,\
org.eclipse.emf.sdk.feature.group,\
org.eclipse.mylyn_feature.feature.group

Just make sure the initial path is correct and once this is done, restart your Eclipse. I must say that is a cool feature of p2, which makes me like p2 much more. The manual installation process was really annoying.

I hope this helps. Thanks again to Paul!

Does anyone know if I can also de-install components with the director?

You can define Eclipse shortcuts including parameters, e.g. the -data parameter via a .desktop file. Once defined you can drag the file into the Dash of Unity to get a new entry (including your shortcuts).

[Desktop Entry]
Icon=application-x-executable
Name=eclipse
Type=Application
Exec=/home/vogella/Eclipse37/eclipse -data /home/vogella/workspace/docu

X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=Docu;vogella;

[Docu Shortcut Group]
Name=Docu
Exec=/home/vogella/Eclipse37/eclipse -data /home/vogella/workspace/docu
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[vogella Shortcut Group]
Name=vogella
Exec=/home/vogella/Eclipse37/eclipse -data /home/vogella/workspace/vogella
TargetEnvironment=Unity

This should create an entry in the menu with two quick links to your workspaces.

Thanks to Holger Joest for helping with that on G+.

I enjoy being part of the Eclipse community, a community which is small , friendly and well educated.

Receiving the award is a great honor and I hope that my work as Eclipse Evangelist will continue to help other learning and embracing the Eclipse platform.

I’m very sorry that I can’t join EclipseCon in the US, my best regards to all EclipseCon visitors. Enjoy this great conference.

Thanks again!

Marcel is the project lead of Eclipse Code Recommenders. Eclipse Code Recommenders provides improvements in the Eclipse IDE which increases the developer productivity.

Marcel also has a vast and deep background in Eclipse Plug-in and RCP development and will help to deliver the Eclipse 4 training course.

For Eclipse 4 RCP there have been also several enhancements and bug fixes compared to Eclipse 4.2 M5 so I suggest you to move to M6.

I also updated my Eclipse 4 RCP tutorial to Eclipse 4.2 M6.

The major concern I heard about getting started with Eclipse 4.2 is that the correct update site for the Eclipse tools fitting to the M-build is too hard to find. Therefore I added the correct update site for the M6 build in the tutorial.

Have fun!

In case you wondering what happened to my planned book about Eclipse 4, it is currently reviewed by a few people and should be available in a few weeks.

The migration for your Eclipse 3.x RCP applcation to Eclipse 4.2 is now super easy.

If you are using a feature based product configuration file which includes the exiting Eclipse 3.x “org.eclipse.rcp” feature, then almost no change in your product or application is required to run on Eclipse 4.2 is required. You only have to add two additional features org.eclipse.emf.common and
org.eclipse.emf.ecore. See Bugreport for details.

In my opinion there is no reason anymore not to migrate to Eclipse 4. The integration builds are already very stable and Eclipse 4.2M6 is expected to be really good as this will be the released used for EclipseCon.

Please give the latest integration builds a try with your Eclipse 3.x RCP application and report any issues to give the team the chance to fix any outstanding issues.

For example, lets say you have the following domain model.

@Creatable
class Todo {
 @Inject
 public Todo(Dependent depend, YourOSGiService service) {
     // placeholder
 }
}

@Creatable
class Dependent {
 public Dependent() {
 // placeholder
 }
}

Assuming that you have defined the required OSGi service, you can get an instance of your Todo data model injected in a Part.

// Field Injection
@Inject Todo todo

Pretty cool, I think. For details check out the Bug report.

To use this please use one of the recent integration builds. Eclipse 4.2M5 does not yet contain the feature.

I added this also to Eclipse 4 Tutorial. It is also included in my Eclipse 4 RCP training.