[eclipse.org-membership-at-large] Upcoming Reviews, Dec. 15-22/2010

[Wayne Beaton <emo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings folks.

The EBam project [0] is undertaking a 0.8 Release review [1] from Dec 15-22.

I'm very excited to tell you about two new project proposals.

WindowBuilder [2] is already known as one of the best Java GUI builders 
on the market. It supports both SWT and Swing and is fully 
bi-directional, meaning that you can work on the code or the visual 
design – it’s your choice. Just as importantly, the architecture is 
extensible so the team hopes to see additional designers built on top. 
Part of the goal here will be to create an ecosystem of open source and 
commercial extensions that make use of WindowBuilder’s core 
functionality to create GUI designers, as Google plans to do with its 
GWT Designer offering.

Runtime Analysis Tools (RAT) [3] comes from CodePro Profiler, an 
excellent Java application profiling tool. The profiler supports Java 
developers to inspect the running applications, find performance 
bottlenecks, detect memory leaks and solve problems regarding thread 
concurrency in Java applications.

Both of these projects intend to join the simultaneous release to be 
part of Indigo. They should also find a place in one of more of the 
downloadable Eclipse packages. I hope that you're as excited about this 
as I am ;-)

If you have any questions about the new projects, post them on the 
Proposals Forum [4].

Thanks,

Wayne

[0] http://www.eclipse.org/ebam
[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/attachment.cgi?id=185226
[2] http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/tools.windowbuilder
[3] http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/tools.rat
[4] http://www.eclipse.org/forums/eclipse.proposals