Articles

• September 2004 - Branding your application by Andrew Eidsness and Pascal Rapicault
• January 2003 - Builders and Natures by John Arthorne
• August 2002 - Responding to resource changes in the Eclipse workspace by John Arthorne

General core documents

• Coding Conventions - Eclipse
• Coding Conventions - Platform/Core Team
• Code Formatting - Platform/Core Team Code Format Template
• The OSGi-based runtime
• Core Overview
• Eclipse Update Site
• Session Test Framework

Active work

We are just finishing up the Eclipse 3.2 (Callisto) release, and are starting to formulate plans for the 3.3 (Europa) release. Stay tuned for details...

Archive

Eclipse 3.2:

• Plug-in Versioning
• Flexible workspaces

Eclipse 3.1:

• User Settings/Preferences (Dynamic Team page, Core page)
• History store modifications
• File Attributes
• Issues with large-scale development
• Message bundles
• Running Eclipse from JARs
• Markup to express bundle dynamic capabilities
• Gathering performance statistics [March 2005]
• Gathering Information about your plug-in [June 2005]
• Lifting restrictions on IPath characters (the colon/slash problem) [October 2004]

Eclipse 3.0:

• Improving the Eclipse Build Story>
• Content Types
• File Encoding

Eclipse 1.0 to 2.1:

• Eclipse Remote Development Guidelines (draft) [April 2002]
• RFCs (mostly from 2.0)
• Inflexible Project Structure - Problem Definition, Possible Solutions, and the Proposed Solution
• (obsolete) Using the Class Loader Properties File
• (obsolete) Using Package Prefixes in the plugin.xml