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My Impressions of Eclipse Forum India
Yesterday was the first day of the JAX-India conference. I attended the Eclipse tracks for the entire day.
Prakash writes an interesting post on his first impressions of the track. I’d like to add some more.
There were some pretty interesting problems that folks were trying to solve. One interesting problem that I find worth mentioning was being able to create a bundle of any jar selected by a user (through a file/open dialog or whatever) and making this available to the eclipse instance — this is so that the classes in the jar are automagically available to the other plugins.
Some questions were not so interesting or relevant and the speakers, Chris and Wassim could have taken these offline. My guess is that this is because some part of the audience has probably not developed eclipse plugins. So I think it was indeed a good idea to not turn such people away after all 
Among other things that were discussed in the conference were some interesting features of PDE and Equinox (the OSGi implementation from Eclipse)
Lotus Notes beta 8, and Eclipse
I saw this post by ZX on Lotus Notes 8 based on the Eclipse platform.
ZX says:
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In the end, this is great news for Eclipse which now gets to interact with a whole new set of users and developers.Eclipse (OSGi) on clients… devices… servers… , what’s next?
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OSGi is great on my desktop, laptop, servers, even mobile phones. But lotus notes based on OSGi ? I’m a die hard Eclipse fan and developer. But when it comes to usability of the software that I have to use everyday I’m a tough guy to convince.
For another potshot at this installer (for now) it is about 673 MB, is packaged as a .tar (Anyone at IBM lotus notes packaging team heard about something called as gzip/bzip2?) The documentation (which is about a total of 3MB) comes as a separate download. While it is a good idea to package the documentation separately I wonder if the installer comes with some documentation.
I just hope that I do not have to go through all these pains and musings and some more pains to install Lotus Notes 8. Especially after downloading something that is 673 MB.