Standardizing Eclipse Plugins, Take 2

Almost a year ago I wrote a blog entry about one way to standardize Eclipse plugins across your team. It represented our team’s best guess on how to share plugins. Now that some time has gone by, how good has our experience been with it? I’d give it an 8 overall, but I think we’ve outgrown it. What’s our next strategy? Listen and find out.

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Zdot Podcast: Eclipse 3.1 Release

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“A triumph my dear, another triumph.” -A Christmas Carol

Show Notes

Eclipse 3.1 has some excellent new features. Chief among them for me is the JDK 1.5 support. They’ve got everything from enums to annotations supported, and done very well. Also of particular note is the first class support to the Rich Client Platform (RCP). Watch for the Web Tools Platform to finalize very soon as well.

Zdot Podcast: Key Hibernate Features

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This show wraps up the intro to Hibernate with a discussion of some of its key features including directly using POJOs, detaching objects from a Session, lazy loading, using Hibernate’s “user types” to map custom objects to column values, and its support for mapping class hierarchies. It’s a long one today - 26 minutes - but a bit more focused. Enjoy.