DTP at EclipseCon 2009

Hey there!

Yes, it's almost that time again... EclipseCon 2009 starts with a bang on Monday. Can you believe it? It's already here!!

I head out to the (hopefully sunny) state of California on Sunday morning early for a boatload of meetings that afternoon and then DTP has a tutorial bright and early Monday morning at 8am.

But I thought I'd fill everyone in on what's cool in the world of DTP at EclipseCon this year...

We have our tutorial obviously -- "Using and Extending Eclipse Data Tools (DTP)" on Monday morning at 8am. If you're planning on attending, please check out the list of pre-requisites. We'll start with the DTP tooling, talk about DTP APIs, and then go a bit into how to extend the ODA and SQL editor for your own particular uses. Linda Chan (Actuate), Brian Payton (IBM), and myself will be presenting.

We also have a couple of long talks...

• "DTPtv and Other Wacky Ideas" (My talk merging DTP and YouTube... yeah, you read that right!)
• "Generating intelligent data access widgets" (Our friends at Ingres talking about some cool new functionality built on DTP.)
  

And a number of short talks that will be collected into one curated session hosted by yours truly...

• The curated session with all of these short talks is "Data Tools from Users to Commercial Extenders"
• Included in this set of short talks:
• "Access your data without Eclipse clutter!" (more from our friends at Ingres)
  
• "Getting started with the DTP SQL Query Builder" (Brian Payton - IBM)
  
• "IBM pureQuery: leveraging the DTP project to integrate Java and SQL development" (Brian Payton - IBM)
  

So it's not forgotten, we also have a Birds of a Feather session on Monday night. If you want to come and chat, ask questions, and see what's going on in the world of DTP please drop by!

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And if you're going to attend the Eclipse Community Spotlight panel at the end of the conference, you'll get to see a bunch of us talking about what's going on in the world of Eclipse.

So be sure to check us out while you're at EclipseCon! I hope to see you there!

--Fitz

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Podcast about DTP at EclipseCon 2009

Hi all!

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A couple of weeks ago, Wayne Beaton was kind enough to put up with me for a podcast in his series about EclipseCon 2009. What did we talk about? The Data Tools Platform of course!

We chatted about some of the talks we have for DTP at EclipseCon this year. And we of course hope to see you DTP community members at each of them... ok, maybe just a few (there are so many great presentations, you almost wish you could clone yourself!). But definitely stop by!

Though I still think I sound like Kermit the Frog, the podcast is up there for all to hear at Eclipse Live. Check it out and let me know what you think!

Thanks Wayne!
--Fitz

Cool DTP Talks at EclipseCon 2009

Hey all!

I'm always amazed by the depth and breadth of talks at EclipseCon and this year is no different. In the Data Tooling category, we have a diverse set of talks (you can see the list here) on everything from some new tooling we've been working on, updates to the Graphical SQL Query Builder, how Ingres is rolling DTP components in new and unique ways, to using YouTube in DTP and how a commercial vendor (IBM) is using and extending DTP APIs for their PureQuery product.

I have to admit I'm sort of partial to the YouTube presentation I'm doing :), but I'm very curious to hear Ingres and IBM talk about their tooling and products and how DTP is playing a role in those.

For those of you just getting started with DTP, we have a tutorial scheduled for the Monday of the conference that's going to walk through a ton of topics from adding a new JDBC driver to the mix, to supporting a new database, and customizing SQL syntax and so on...

DTP is much more than just a great set of tools for data access... It's a great community. And EclipseCon is when that community comes together.

Come join our community!

--Fitz

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Data Tools at EclipseCon 2009

Hey all!

Yes, the holidays are almost upon us... But even better than that, EclipseCon 2009 is just around the corner! (Ok, maybe not RIGHT around the corner, but three months will zip by in no time.)

This year in the Data Tools track we have a tutorial coming up and bunch of cool talks from a number of different directions.

Though I'm helping with the tutorial this year and moderating a block of short talks, I also am talking about how to use DTP to connect to something other than a database. After all, not all data is in databases!

My long talk this year will show how DTP and the Data Source Explorer can be used for searching and viewing YouTube videos in Eclipse. How do these two worlds meet? Come to my talk and find out!

Besides that, I get to moderate a set of three cool short talks. These bright folks will talk about how DTP is being used in RCP as a database developer's type of tool, what's going on with the SQL Query Builder in Galileo, and how DTP is being used in cool ways by a commercial application.

So be sure to check out some of our talks this year! In another post, I'll talk some about what to expect from our tutorial and some of the other cool talks going on at EC2009 that I'm excited about!

Register today and don't forget to reserve a room at the hotel (it fills up fast!)!

Happy Holidays to all!
--Fitz

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Out of Memory Errors...

Image via WikipediaHi all...

I recently spent about a day and a half chasing my tail trying to track down some bizarre out of memory errors I was running into with Ganymede SR1 when debugging some DTP stuff and thought I'd pass along what I learned. I was continually running out of heap space while debugging, which was very troubling.

At first, I thought I had somehow corrupted my workspace. So I created a new workspace and tried it again (several times actually) and ended up with the same problem.

Next, I thought I'd try the Galileo Platform Galileo M3 build (along with the associated GEF, EMF, and DTP builds) and see if I got the error. At first I didn't, and I thought 3.5 might have fixed the problem... [sigh] No luck.

So then I started poking around on Google, trying to figure out how to bump up my heap space.

I kept running across this suggestion (which after thinking about it was kind a "well duh" kind of thing):

"Add -Xms256M -Xmx512M to the VM arguments for the runtime configuration or on the main Eclipse command line when you start it up..."

Lo and behold it works now in Galileo and Ganymede. Life is good.

But it was a frustrating end to the week, only to discover that I was just oblivious to the simple solution. :(

Hope this saves someone else from the pain and suffering!

--Fitz

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New DB Support in DTP for Galileo...

Image via WikipediaHey All!

Yes, it's been a while. But things are starting to hop with DTP for Galileo.

Our DTP 1.7 release will include some support for new databases and some updated support for existing ones...

• Ingres has been kind enough to contribute their plug-ins for Ingres DB support in DTP for Galileo and we finally have them as part of our regular build.
• I added some rudimentary SQLite support recently and that's now part of the regular build.
• And Ivar and our friends at NexB were kind enough to contribute some big updates to our Microsoft SQL Server support, including new support for SQL Server 2008.

So big thanks to Ingres and NexB for making those contributions possible!

More changes are going in all the time as well... Enhancements and bug fixes mostly, but some new features as well.

Be sure to check out our M4 milestone build here for some early access!

--Fitz

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Get your submissions in for EclipseCon 2009!

Hi all!

Yes, it's just the first week of November... But November 24 is creeping up on us all too quickly... 18 days and will come and go and you'll be wondering where all the time went!

So it's time to think about a presentation for EclipseCon!

Simply want to share some cool tips or news with the world? Do a short talk! You only have to fill 10 minutes and it goes by like lightning.

Do you have more to say? Do a long talk! 50 minutes goes by very quickly.

Do you have too much to say in an hour and want to help people learn some new Eclipse skills? By all means try for a tutorial slot! Two hours of your very own to teach a few old (or new) developers some new tricks!

But don't wait too long! We'd love to see some DTP-themed talks. What cool things are you doing with Data Tools? Use it in new and twisted ways and share it with the rest of us!

Only 18 more days to get your proposals in!

Good luck and hope to see some talks soon!

--Fitz