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| Hello all, Below is information about the June 4 Review Call for Ganymede, as well as announcements from the Eclipse Examples project and the Google Summer of Code project. The Ganymede "slides" link will download a zip file containing two very large pdf files. One is an overview containing a few summary slides for each project participating in the June 4 Ganymede Release Review. The other is made up of the entire Ganymede Release slide decks for each project participating on June 4. Please note that there will be no presentations during the Ganymede Review Call on June 4. The Review Call is for questions only. We encourage you to download the pdfs and read through them to see if you have any questions to ask during the Review Call. Thanks. Project Reviews
Reviews are held on a conference call for Eclipse Members. Members (and committers are members) are directed to the MyFoundation portal for the call-in information. If you do not have access to the portal, send email to EMO to request the call information. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement from the Eclipse Examples Project The Examples Project is pleased to announce the creation of the "Eclipse Business Expenses Reporting Tool" (EBERT) component. EBERT is a simple expense reporting tool that runs on the client, server, and embedded devices using Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP), and embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP) respectively. Approximately 90% of the code is exactly the same across platforms. That 90%—the exact same code without recompiling, repackaging, or manipulation of any sort—is deployed on the desktop, the server, and a phone. This is one of the great things about Equinox and the various runtime platforms at Eclipse: the exact same component model, Equinox, is used everywhere. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement from the Google Summer of Code (SOC) Project The SOC project is pleased to announce the creation of the "toString" component. This component is being created as part of the Google Summer of Code 2008 programme. The student, Mateusz Matela--who is funded by Google--has two mentors, Markus Kuppe and Mike Haller, helping with the effort. The toString() method is widely used to represent objects as human-readable text and practically every class should implement it. Usually it is very simple: generated string contains the object type and lists values of the most important fields. That's why process of writing such methods can easily be automated. Eclipse, as the best java IDE in the world, should include functionality of automatic toString() method generation to make its users lives even simpler. Implementing it is the aim of this project. The Eclipse platform has already implemented very similar functionality - it can automatically create constructors, getters and setters, and other methods. Considering this, adding toString() method generator is relatively easy task because one can use existing solution as an example. This makes the project a perfect match for a student like me, who just begins his adventure of contribution to the Eclipse development. Wayne Beaton Examples Project Lead SOC Project Co-lead -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anne Jacko |