EGL Community Edition is a free Eclipse-based tool that simplifies the development of rich Web 2.0 style applications. Learn more from Will Smythe, Product manager, how EGL CE dramatically accelerates development of JavaScript and Java-based, rich Internet applications without needing to learn or program the intricacies of Ajax, JavaScript, REST, HTML, or XML.

Michael McCallum provides a solution to some recurring M2Eclipse/Maven class loader/dependency hell issues.

I’m not sure if people noticed this last week, but there’s been discussion of providing a simplified p2 ui by refactoring out the Mylyn discovery user interface and pushing it down the stack. I think this enhancement would alleviate a common problem RCP developers have when it comes to providing a simpler user interface for their users. p2 does a great job in offering you a set of APIs to do many things, but in most cases… the operations and user interface should be simple.

As part of the Eclipse Gemini project, Spring Dynamic Modules will be moving to Eclipse.org where it will continue to be developed and to track ongoing enhancements to the Blueprint Service specification. The Spring Dynamic Modules code base will be dual-licensed under both the EPL and Apache License at Eclipse.org.

The recent release of JRuby 1.4 already ships as as an OSGi bundle. I’ve never mixed Ruby with Java before, so I took it as an opportunity to learn more. This blog explains how to write a Twitter Search UI for Eclipse, using Ruby’s http and JSON libraries to talk to twitter.com. Read on to learn how to install JRuby on your system, make it work with Equinox and mix Java with Ruby code.