Oomph Workshop: Eclipse the Way You Want It

Our Oomph Workshop at EclipseCon France is next Wednesday morning and Ed and I hope to see you there. We'll not only show you how to use Oomph's Eclipse Installer to provision ready-to-use IDEs and workspaces, we'll also teach you how to create setups for your own projects:

By submitting a functional setup for an Eclipse project
every EclipseCon participant can

Win a Spider Parrot Drone 

All you need is an Eclipse IDE with Oomph and our Author's Guide.

The challenge, of course, becomes easier if you attend our workshop. If you plan to do so, please download the following zip file and unzip it to an empty folder on your local disk:

oomph-workshop.zip

The zip file is giant (2.5 GB) because we've designed it to allow you to exercise the tutorial without network access, i.e., it includes some mirrors of p2 and Git repositories, as well as preconfigured installer executables for all platforms. To bootstrap the tutorial IDE follow these simple steps:

1. Go to the "installers" folder and launch the installer for your platform. If you are on Linux, please "chmod +x" your installer binary first!
   
   
2. If you run the installer the first time ever it might come up in simple mode. In this case please switch it to advanced mode:
   
   
3. In the advanced mode pick the "Eclipse IDE for Eclipse Committers" product and select the "Mars" version and click Next:
   
   
     
4. On the second installer page double-click the "Oomph Tutorial" project and verify that it's been added to the table at the bottom:
   
   
   
   
5. Confirm all following installer pages with Next or Finish. The tutorial IDE will be installed and started:
   
   

Now you're ready to participate. We're looking forward to meeting you in Toulouse!

Oomph 1.0.0 is Available

I'm very happy and a little proud to announce the very first release of Eclipse Oomph. The new installers are now available for your platform:

• Download for Windows 64 bit
• Download for Windows 32 bit
• Download for Mac OS 64 bit
• Download for Linux 64 bit
• Download for Linux 32 bit

You can also install Oomph into an existing IDE via the update site or the site archive. Our help center is still work in progress but you may already find answers to your questions there. Our wiki may provide additional information.

This 1.0.0 release includes:

• 106 enhancements
• 218 bug fixes

I'd like to thank our committers, especially my friend Ed Merks, our contributors and early users for their great contributions, valuable feedback, and concise bug reports. Working with you has been and will continue to be an absolutely pleasant and rewarding experience for me.