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 Origo. We used CruiseControl 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).