A couple of weeks ago, I started to create a wrapper around the C++ activemq (http://activemq.apache.org/cms) library, which allows to connect to the activemq message oriented middleware. I had a couple of problems while interfacing between Eiffel and C++, where Manu helped me a lot (big thanks again). But got it working well in the end.

While updating a checkout of the EiffelStudio release I saw, that the 70'000 commit has happened a couple of days ago by Paul. So congratulations to EiffelStudio, there aren't that many repositories with that many commits around.

I just created poll on how people like to communicate. Recently there was a discussion about which Eiffel mailing list to use. I'm wondering if people like mailing lists or would prefer something different altogether.

I personally prefer online forums to mailing lists as they have several advantages.

A couple of days ago we setup an automatic build and testing system for our development of [1]. We used [2] as the base of the system. CruiseControl does check if there were any changes to the source code and launches a build.

Yesterday the first alpha version of origo has been launched. Origo is a platform for distributed development and user interaction. It is built on a middleware architecture that uses JXTA and is written in Eiffel. This middleware provides an xmlrpc api which is used by a website to access and update data.

See more at: http://origo.alpha.origo.ethz.ch/

As some of you might know, I'm at the moment working on my Master thesis and I'm building the core for Origo (http://origo.ethz.ch).