Designing an Android Domain Specific Modeling Language using EMF, GEF and GMF:

I was really impressed how easy it is to develop an application for Android with the modeling tool they build it is really strait forward to build the interaction within an diagram. I really would like to compare the platform of the iPhone and the android one. Let’s see which of them will hype more in the future. I can see potential in both of them.
On the other hand i found some things concerning EMF we where doing wrong in our own implementation. Will have to take a closer look at that as soon as i am back in Vienna. For further information i would suggest to take a look at:

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Executing BPMN

Was an nice talk about BPM and all the acronyms that twitter around in this area. At least the presenter was realistic in some way as he mentioned “it will never happen that a business analyst can design an WF and deploy it without any developer”. I totally agree with that and have to admit that i we should have taken this more into account while designing the CEP system at Senactive. Anyway i am still confused by all this different standards and quasi standards (BEPEL, BPMN, jBPM, ….).

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e4 Project in Review

In my opinion this was one of the most interesting sessions i visited at the conference. It showed at least some of the details in action that e4 will change in eclipse. In particular they showed the new Resource framework and XWT with the Model behind the Workbench. They are also going in the right direction by removing the whole Singleton chaos that exists in the current WB to provide the possibility to use the RCP in an multiuser environment. This in particular is needed to give better support for the RAP project which by the way will also be an essential part for the e4. e4 is still in the incubator but will release an first version in July this year and hopefully ship in Summer 2010. As there are several advantages with e4 we will still have to wait for about 2 years to get a stable version that we can use for RCP development.

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Make Money Fast! Market Your Killer App with the Eclipse Pulsar Initiative (formerly Eclipse Mobile Industry Working Group)

This was an interested discussion about the Pulsar initiative that was announced some time ago. Some mobile companies including Motorola, Sony Ericsson and Nokia are trying to build an environment for mobile developers based on the Eclipse Framework to support an easier way of development for their devices. For me it sounds like they want to form abase against the two other big new players in the market, Apple with their iPhone and Google with Android. The discussion itself was a little bit boring and i am not sure how this will work out in the future.

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