Eclipse Scout Blog

For all those who might fear to start a new Scout project from scratch:
You can now download a reference workspace and extend that:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Scout_Project_From_Existing_Workspace. Happy coding!

We now have an initial Eclipse Scout homepage. As a next step we’ll start moving our source files to their new home

For those who never heared of Scout:

1. Visit the new homepage
2. Read the “Getting Startet” on the Scout wiki
3. Build your 1st Scout business application in a day
4. Open a bug if something is not working for you

Scouters are happy about the successful Creation Review.

We’ll post news again as soon as we have a eclipse.org project page.

With the new capabilities of Perl 6 (“to make the future Perl even more insanely great — without, we hope, making it even more greatly insane”), the new release of  Parrot (“a virtual machine designed to efficiently compile and execute bytecode for dynamic languages”) implemented in Haskell (“twenty years of cutting edge research, it allows rapid development of robust, concise, correct software”), and renewed insights into the power of the command line and development environments (“Emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish.”) we have decided to move Eclipse Scout from Java to Perl 6 and abandon the cruft that is Java, Equinox, OSGi, SOAP, SOA, and the entire acronym hell. No more messing around with plugin.xml and slogging through an endless mess of tiny little Java files, all alike!

Hurray! Free, at last.

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Yesterday’s NASA keynote by Jeff Norris was my personal favorite.

Scheduling systems for astronauts, software for Mars rovers, huge robot live demo almost knocking out walls, all based on Eclipse.

And Scout said “hello world” at this year’s Eclipsecon!

Hell, who cares about writing business applications

OK, OK, we’ve had many interesting conversations around the Scout framework and a decent amount of people in both our lightning talk and the Scout tutorial session.

Andreas Hoegger in action at the Scout tutorial.

If you missed the tutorial, download Scout, build the tutorial application, and play around (wiki to be completed by Monday 29th of March). Then, talk to us and let us know how it worked for you in our Eclipse Scout forum.

We have started our wiki to help you to understand what Eclipse Scout is all about and why you need it .

At our Tutorial (2h) at the EclipseCon you can write your first Eclipse Scout app. Participants even get their own Scout USB People stick (first come, first serve). Check details in our forum.

Watch our new ScreenCast “How to create fields” now in HiDefinition.
You’ll find the link in the post from Claudio Guglielmo in our forum.

Claudio Guglielmo made a short screen cast “How to create a form”.

Find the link in our forum and tell us what else you’d like to see.

We added a IMAP Step-by-Step HowTo to our Scout wiki under “Getting Startet”.
Just download Eclipse Scout and give it a try.

If you have any questions please ask them in our Scout Forum. You will find a thread there.