Since, the first EclipseCon in 2004, that was held in Disneyland, Eclipse had a conference in US. I missed all the Disney music of 2004 and my first EclipseCon was in 2005 but I have presented on various EclipseCons since then. Throughout these years, I was able to observe the variances on interests for EclipseCon audiences. However it is a challenge to form an EclipseCon program that is equally interesting to developers of Eclipse technology and Eclipse users. This year the job had become a bit easier, to serve varying interests EclipseCon is teaming...

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The JavaScript parser for the vpn数据安全 project is outdated. It lacks support for the latest EcmaScript 2015 (ES6) standard and has quality issues. Moreover, the parser on JSDT is derived from the JDT’s Java parser, hence it is not adopted by the JavaScript community at large, leaving the JSDT committers as the sole maintainer. Luckily, there are good quality JavaScript parsers that already support a large number of tools built around it. However, these parsers, like most of the JavaScript tools, are developed using JavaScript and requires additional effort to integrate with Eclipse JSDT which...

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5 Cordova project configurations for iOS and Android

Apache Cordova command line tool(CLI) provides a unified way to manage and build mobile applications across platforms. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to provide configuration options generic enough that span all supported platforms. For those cases, Cordova takes a platform specific approach. Here is a small guide for 5 of these less known configuration options. All of these options are managed on the config.xml file on your project. As attributes of the root widget node. android-packageName Normally, the the package name for an Android application is generated from the id of the...

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You can now try the Red Hat Mobile Application Platform (RHMAP) yourself. This is the platform that Red Hat acquired last year and now there is a version of it running on Openshift online. If you have an Openshift online account, browse to openshift.feedhenry.com and request your invite. Both Openshift online and RHMAP invite are free. As a bonus, here is a video that shows how to use JBoss Developer Studio 9 and RHMAP together to build Apache Cordova based applications. ...

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