Category Archives: eclipse

Mirror P2 Repositories with Tycho

Recently I’ve needed the ability to mirror some p2 repositories. In the past, I would setup a new feature, and site.xml/category.xml file to handle this. However, since Tycho 0.13, there is a p2 mirror capability for tycho. It provides the … Continue reading

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Jacoco, Tycho, and Coverage Reports

It’s been a while since I posted here.  Most of my postings are now on Google+ or via twitter.  However, neither place does well for code snippets so here I am.   If you are using Tycho and want Java … Continue reading

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Does Popularity = Success?

Does the current popularity of an open source project, automatically mean that it is successful?   It can but how do we define successful for an open source project? Just because a project is popular does not necessarily mean that … Continue reading

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New Year, New Challenges

For the last year and half I have been working with eBay through Intalio, on the Turmeric SOA project.   With the new year, I’ll be transitioning off the Turmeric SOA project to an internal Intalio project.   I’ll still … Continue reading

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Testing Turmeric SOA Web Services

With the recent release of Turmeric SOA 1.1.0, I thought it was a good time to revist some of the tutorials around Turmeric.  While working on updating some these, I realised we can make testing of the web services a … Continue reading

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Turmeric SOA 1.1.0 Released

Turmeric SOA 1.1.0 is now available for download. https://www.ebayopensource.org/index.php/Turmeric/Downloads Included in this release are several new features and improvements. Cassandra storage support for both Rater Limiter, Runtime, and Monitoring Console. Metrics are captured and stored in a cassandra data store. … Continue reading

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Repost: EclipseCon 2012 – What I WANT!

I’m reposting this, after having reviewed the first batch of submissions.  I’ve gone through and higlighted some key sections, at least for me.  You have through Monday for early bird selection.  Final submission deadline is Nov 18th. It’s that time … Continue reading

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Refactoring: Maintainable Web Services

One of the problems I have with WSDL based web services is the fact that operations are typically generated into one big interface file that must be implemented.   I’ve seen WSDLs with 50 to 70 operations, and this leads … Continue reading

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Re-Writing Eclipse Commit History

So you took the plunge and migrated your project from CVS/SVN to GIT?   However at the time you did so, you didn’t think about possibly splitting out the projects into multiple git repositories.   You and your project were … Continue reading

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EclipseCon 2012 – What I WANT!

It’s that time of year again…EclipseCon North America submission time. Like every year, the program committee is asking you to submit your talk early.  Ian and Doug have been cracking the whip pretty hard telling us to blog, so here … Continue reading

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