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  • La galaxie Eclipse 3.5 Galileo est accessible en téléchargement posted Jun 29, 2009
    Avis aux développeurs : la version annuelle d'Eclipse et de tous ses composants est désormais disponible sur le site de la fondation. Comme tous les ans, les nouveautés sont considérables.
  • Galileo, Galileo, Galileo! Congratulations Eclipse! posted Jun 25, 2009
    Ab heute Nachmittag, ca. 15 Uhr mitteleuropäischer Zeit, steht die lang erwartete Eclipse 3.5 Version Galileo zum Download auf eclipse.org bereit! Grund genug auch für die JAXenter-Redaktion, die den Galileo-Release-Zyklus über die letzten Monate hinweg journalistisch begleiten durfte, die Sektkorken knallen zu lassen und ein wenig mitzufeiern! Und so präsentieren wir uns in den nächsten Tagen ganz im festlichen Galileo-Gewand! Herzlichen Glückwunsch an alle Entwickler, die an den 33 Projekten der Eclipse-Galileo-Version mitgearbeitet haben! Gratulation an die Eclipse Foundation! Congratulations Eclipse!
  • Eclipse Galileo Pulsar - A First Look At Mobile Eclipse posted Jun 25, 2009
    The brand new build I am referring to is entitled Pulsar and is squarely focused for mobile Java developers. Pulsar however, is a lot more then just a new part of the release train of Galileo but, an effort to simplify mobile application development for different mobile platforms. You can read more about this in this DeveloperWorld article.
  • Eclipse worms into Apple Cocoa, iPhone posted Jun 25, 2009
    Apple Macs, iPhones, and other mobile devices are being pulled into the open-source tools universe of Eclipse, a group whose genesis can be traced to enterprise Java and C/C++.
    The project today released Eclipse 3.5, codenamed Galileo, which wraps 33 projects in an integrated release. For the first time, the bundle can be downloaded for development of Cocoa Mac applications destined for deployment on 32-bit and 64-bit Apple systems.
  • Eclipse Galileo shoots for the stars posted Jun 24, 2009
    News out today that the Eclipse community has delivered Galileo. The 2009 Eclipse release train is made up of 24 million lines of code across 33 projects, with contributions from 380 committers and 44 companies participating.
    As a product manager, I must say this is a pretty impressive accomplishment by the Eclipse Foundation and everyone involved with Eclipse. Well done!
  • Eclipse Galileo technologies set for orbit posted Jun 24, 2009
    The Eclipse Foundation will put out on Wednesday its annual release train, this time featuring the simultaneous release of technologies from 33 different open source project teams in spaces ranging mobile to SOA to the base Eclipse platform.
  • Eclipse Galileo: The release train leaves the station posted Jun 24, 2009
    The Eclipse Foundation's annual release train, this year dubbed Galileo, has now been released. The Eclipse release train brings together a large number of Eclipse projects and synchronises them into a single release with the aim of making "commercial adoption simple and straightfoward" according to Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director at the Eclipse Foundation. The idea is that rather than a commercial adopter trying picking up what could be dozens of seperate projects, by using the release train, they can plan for one major annual update.
  • Eclipse Galileo Marks Fourth Release Train posted Jun 24, 2009
    The Eclipse Foundation today announced its fourth "release train," a coordinated, simultaneous launch of a group of open-source Eclipse projects that has become an annual event. Representing a key milestone for Eclipse, this year’s new release train, code named "Galileo," is the largest yet, comprising 33 projects and more than 24 million lines of code.
  • Eclipse Galileo - This Is How To Release Software posted Jun 24, 2009
    Today marks the much anticipated release of Eclipse Galileo, or Eclipse 3.5. Once again, it's striking how such a large set of projects across the developer community can coordinate such a big software drop consistently, year after year. Congratulations and much respect is due to the project leads, developers and Eclipse foundation for achieving this.
  • Crème de Cocoa: Eclipse Galileo veröffentlicht posted Jun 24, 2009
    Im sechsten Jahr in Folge hat die Eclipse-Community wieder ein koordiniertes Eclipse-Paket ausgeliefert. Die aktuelle Zusammenstellung namens Galileo umfasst über 33 Eclipse-Projekte mit über 24 Millionen Codezeilen und ist somit das umfangreichste vorkonfigurierte Paket, das die Eclipse-Community bisher geschnürt hat: Über 380 Committer von 44 Organisationen haben zu der neuen Version beigetragen.
  • Eclipse Galileo released posted Jun 24, 2009
    The Eclipse Foundation today announced the release of Eclipse Galileo, the simultaneous release of 33 projects, including the venerable Eclipse JDT. As well as the new features covered by InfoQ already, the Galileo release includes the PHP Development Tools Project, as well as stalwarts like modelling packages and the persistence layer EclipseLink (formerly known as Oracle's TopLink).
  • Instantiations Product Updates Synchronized with Eclipse 3.5 Galileo Release posted Jun 24, 2009
    Instantiations, Inc., today announced that its entire Eclipse-based product line has been updated in conjunction with the annual Eclipse release, Galileo. In addition to adding support for Eclipse 3.5, significant new and enhanced functionality has been added across the product line. Further, Instantiations now offers a new product, WindowTester Runner, that offers GUI test execution as a separate function from test creation, ideal for large Eclipse development groups.
  • Webinar: OSGi and Equinox Jumpstart posted Jun 23, 2009
    OSGi has been in the press a lot lately. Everywhere you turn there is some new product or project adopting the technology. From Eclipse to Apache to Spring. From servers to desktops to embedded. OSGi enables the creation of highly modular, dynamic Java-based systems.

    Wondering what its all about? Join book author and Equinox OSGi project co-lead Jeff McAffer (http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9780321561510) and PDE OSGi tooling lead Chris Aniszczyk for an introduction to Equinox and OSGi concepts and look at the breadth and depth of technology available in this space.
  • Eclipse plug-in puts TOGAF 9 into IDE collaboration mode for architects posted Jun 23, 2009
    Based on the Eclipse Process Framework (EPF), an open-source project managed by the Eclipse Foundation, the TOGAF Customizer can be used to implement TOGAF 9 more easily. TOGAF is an industry-consensus framework and method for enterprise architecture (EA) developed by The Open Group, and released in February.
  • Excelsior JET Protects Eclipse RCP Applications From Reverse Engineering posted Jun 22, 2009
    Excelsior JET is the first compliant Java SE implementation that supports the core of the Eclipse Runtime (Equinox OSGi) at the JVM level and enables Java code and data protection by compiling RCP applications down to native code executables.
  • RBC Capital Markets Taps Open Source Platform for Fixed Income Applications posted Jun 17, 2009
    To provide its fixed-income traders with a more integrated user experience, RBC has turned to Eclipse, an open source integrated development environment, as the basis for its global fixed-income trading applications. The ongoing project, called Helios, is targeted at bringing front-office trading applications under a single user interface.
  • Getting Ready for Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo): What’s New? posted Jun 10, 2009
    With the announcement of Release Candidate 3, it’s a couple of weeks until Eclipse 3.5 code named “Galileo” will reach GA status. This new release of the popular Java development environment includes several new features and improvements over its previous version.
  • SAP Extends Commitment to Open Source, Increases Eclipse Membership Status and Joins Additional Eclipse Projects posted Jun 08, 2009
    As part of its ongoing commitment to Java technology and the choice it provides to customers as well as industry-wide technology standards and open source, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) is taking a more active leadership role in the Eclipse Foundation by increasing its membership level from Strategic Consumer to Strategic Developer. SAP will provide at least eight full-time development resources to various projects and lead open source projects, ensuring direct input into the development and architecture of Eclipse. As a Strategic Developer, SAP will be more active within the Eclipse community, including the new Eclipse Git Team Provider (EGit), the Eclipse Modeling Project (EMP) and the Eclipse Equinox Project. Eclipse technology has become the de-facto standard in many domains and for many companies ongoing collaboration on various projects with other industry leaders supports the standards and open source strategies of customers and partners.
  • Exadel JavaFX Studio delivers the future of rich UIs. posted Jun 02, 2009
    JavaFX is a new platform for creating and deploying rich Internet applications inside a lightweight Java virtual machine. JavaFX Studio works as an Eclipse plugin for developing and deploying JavaFX applications. JavaFX Studio comes with numerous features and wizards to make JavaFX application development better.
  • Umfrage: 90 Prozent sind zufrieden mit Eclipse-Entwicklungsumgebung posted May 28, 2009
    Die Eclipse Foundation hat die Ergebnisse der weltweiten "2009 Eclipse Community Survey" in dem "Open Source Developer Report" vorgestellt. Die Foundation hatte von Mitte April bis Mitte Mai zu der Umfrage eingeladen, um Aufschluss zu erhalten, wie Entwickler die von ihnen genutzten Werkzeuge verwenden und insbesondere welche Software sie einsetzen.
  • Introducing MobiOne: Bypass App Stores, Deploy Across Popular Smart Devices posted May 27, 2009
    Genuitec, LLC, maker of the market-leading MyEclipse software and a founding and strategic member of the Eclipse Foundation, today announced the initial milestone release (M1) of MobiOne; a new enterprise-class technology that enables development of mobile applications using Web standards.
  • MyEclipse 7.5 M1: Master Class VisualVM Java Profiler Support and Visual SQL posted May 27, 2009
    Genuitec has announced the initial milestone release of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 7.5. The new release series delivers extensive speed upgrades, incorporates the world’s leading VisualVM Java Profiler, Remote Websphere Deployment, a Visual SQL Query Builder, ICEfaces 1.8 support and an upgrade to MyEclipse’s Visual Designers.
  • Eclipse-based Planning Product xProcess Goes Open Source posted May 20, 2009
    One of the most innovative project management and process improvement solutions to emerge in recent years, xProcess, has today been officially released under open source license. Ivis Technologies, the Colorado-based company that developed the Eclipse-based product, also announced today the formation of a new company, OpenXprocess Ltd to own, maintain and support the product and provide services to the xProcess community.
  • Genuitec Taps Mobile Web for Easy iPhone, BlackBerry, Android App Development posted May 06, 2009
    Java development tools maker Genuitec is working on innovative mobile Web development technology that will enable Web developers to build mobile applications for popular platforms, such as the Apple iPhone, without having to learn native development techniques and languages such as Objective-C. The new offering, known as MobiOne, is based on WebKit and Eclipse technology and is easily adopted by Web developers familiar with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
  • GUIdancer 3.0 for immediate download posted Apr 24, 2009
    Bredex GmbH announced today the immediate availability of GUIdancer 3.0, the automated GUI test tool, from their website (www.guidancer.com). GUIdancer has been expanded in two directions to make automated GUI testing easier and more accessible for a wider range of teams. The introduction of model-based testing lets test case designs be generated from UML models, while the new observation mode allows testers to use a running application to create tests. The Braunschweig-based test experts have also introduced free and unlimited execution licenses with every specification license to reduce the cost of working with the tool.
  • One Small Step Towards Reducing License Proliferation posted Apr 17, 2009
    License proliferation has been a hot topic amongst the open source community for the past couple of years. I am happy to report that the Eclipse Foundation and IBM have collaborated to do our bit to help by superseding the Common Public License (CPL) with the Eclipse Public License (EPL). This means that the CPL will no longer be considered an active open source license.
  • Jetty at Eclipse - EclipseCon 2009 posted Apr 17, 2009
    While at EclipseCon this year, I had the chance to talk with Greg Wilkins and Adam Lieber of Webtide. Just the night before they’d checked code into the Eclipse Foundation repositories to finish up adding Jetty as an Eclipse project. We start out discussing Jetty’s new Eclipse home.
  • New release of Scala IDE for Eclipse posted Apr 16, 2009
    The Scala IDE for Eclipse is centered around seamless integration with the Eclipse Java tools, providing many of the features Eclipse users have come to expect.
  • Eclipse: Many Hands, Light Work posted Apr 15, 2009
    Michael Milinkovich, executive director of the foundation, says that when joining the group, members have to rethink many of the ways they see technology. The first assumption that needs to be jettisoned: that companies need their own versions of important programs as a way of having an edge on their competitors. "Every bank has a program they use to monitor consumer risk," he says. "But companies need to stop thinking about every line of code as a corporate asset. A great deal of code is exactly the same."
  • Equinox Update with Jeff McAffer - EclipseCon 2009 posted Apr 15, 2009
    In this interview from EclipseCon, I talk with multi-RedMonkTV guest Jeff McAffer, one of the leads on the Equinox project. Having spoken with him about Equinox many times before, I start by asking him to give us an update on what’s been going on in Equinox-land of late. In doing so, we speak about how Equinox is related to the OSGi Enterprise and other specifications.
  • Google adds Java to App Engine cloud service posted Apr 13, 2009
    Early support for Java includes a Java runtime, integration with the Google Web Toolkit 1.6, and a Google Plugin for Eclipse. Developers can program against Java Data Objects or Java Persistence API. Thus far, App Engine has leveraged the Python language.
  • Riena - A New Adventure In Eclipse posted Apr 06, 2009
    The Riena project has just released it's 1.0 version recently. In this article, I'll show you how to get going with Riena by walking you through my own experiences using the project. As well as providing a little background on the project I will show how to create a UI with Riena, and run through an example of remote services.
  • Red Hat Adds SOA to JBoss Dev Tool posted Mar 25, 2009
    Red Hat Software today released the first major update to its Eclipse-based developer toolset, allowing developers to build rich interactive and service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications.
  • Deutsche Post Spin-off SOPERA Introduces Next-Generation Application Development Platform posted Mar 25, 2009
    SOPERA's Eclipse SOA initiative provides a comprehensive platform within Eclipse that enables developers to build Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications. The Eclipse SOA platform will include a new service registry/repository, integrate process orchestration engines, and provide integration between Eclipse Swordfish (SOA Runtime Framework) and the SOA Tooling Platform (STP).
  • New AWS Toolkit for Eclipse posted Mar 25, 2009
    Today, we are introducing the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse. This free, open source plugin for the Eclipse IDE makes it easier and more efficient for you to develop, deploy, and debug Java applications on top of AWS. In fact, you can design an entire AWS-hosted Tomcat-based cluster from within Eclipse. You can design your cluster, specifying the number of EC2 instances and the instance type to run. You have can select and even create security groups and keypairs and can associate an Elastic IP address with each instance.
  • Instantiations Releases Major Upgrade to WindowBuilder Pro; Wins Best Commercial Eclipse Developer Tool Award posted Mar 24, 2009
    Instantiations, Inc., a leading provider of Eclipse-based commercial software solutions, today released version 7.0 of its market-leading WindowBuilder™ Pro Java graphical user-interface (GUI) builder, and was awarded the "Best Commercial Eclipse-Based Developer Tool" by the Eclipse Foundation at EclipseCon 2009. WindowBuilder Pro includes powerful functionality for creating user interfaces based on the popular Swing, SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit), and GWT (Google Web Toolkit) UI frameworks.
  • Oracle® Enterprise Pack for Eclipse Release 11g Now Available posted Mar 24, 2009
    The Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse is designed to help organizations where Eclipse is the preferred Integrated Development Environment (IDE) by providing a set of Eclipse plug-ins to help develop, deploy and debug Java SE, Java EE, Spring, ORM and Web Service applications for Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Database.
  • Eclipse Shines a Light on the IDE's Future posted Mar 23, 2009
    The open source Eclipse Foundation has its eye on making its integrated development environment (IDE) ready for the future, with new projects designed to better adapt to cloud-based architectures and to stake a claim in runtime frameworks.
  • Eclipse to detail platform, SOA plans at conference posted Mar 23, 2009
    The Eclipse Foundation will cite at the EclipseCon 2009 conference this week the latest developments in areas ranging from the core Eclipse platform to SOA and modeling, including plans to make the platform available as Web services.
  • GUI Testing Specialist froglogic to Preview Squish 4.0 at EclipseCon 2009 posted Mar 19, 2009
    froglogic GmbH will show a preview of Squish 4.0 at EclipseCon 2009 in Santa Clara next week. Squish 4.0 is the next generation of froglogic's leading cross-platform, automated GUI testing tool.
  • SpringSource unveils new release of Eclipse-based tool suite posted Mar 19, 2009
    SpringSource—the company behind the open source Spring framework for Java—has officially released a new version of its commercial Eclipse-based development environment, the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS). The new version brings improved tools to streamline application editing and accelerate Spring project development.
  • Tasktop 1.4 and Eclipse Mylyn 3.1 released posted Mar 18, 2009
    Today’s Tasktop 1.4 and Eclipse Mylyn 3.1 releases are a milestone in the evolution of the task-focused interface. Mylyn continues to improve as a framework and core tools for open source developers, while Tasktop evolves its commercial integrations and enterprise-ready feature set. Together, these tools are bringing the benefits of the task-focused interface to a rapidly growing audience.
  • EclipseCon is Next Week: Discount for OStatic Readers posted Mar 17, 2009
    Next week, March 23rd to 26th, EclipseCon takes place in Santa Clara, California. Eclipse is a very large open source community focused on open develpment platforms, and extensible frameworks and tools, overseen by The Eclipse Foundation. The conference is an annual event, and this year's will feature a number of high-profile speakers, including developers and software leads from Microsoft, IBM and other companies and organizations.
  • MyEclipse 7.1: The Eclipse Standard for Web Services and Persistence posted Mar 11, 2009
    Genuitec, LLC, the leading provider of the popular MyEclipse integrated development environment (IDE) and a founding and strategic member of the Eclipse Foundation, announced today the production release of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 7.1. The new release delivers enhanced JAX-RS tooling and a variety of persistence enhancements to improve the MyEclipse experience.
  • Eclipse Pulsar seeks mobile app dev unity posted Mar 10, 2009
    Called Pulsar, the initiative is intended to build a standard mobile application development tools platform. It is being led by vendors like Motorola and Nokia and seeks to make it easier to develop applications for different mobile systems. Although the individual platform technologies would not go away, Pulsar provides a unified platform to work with the individual vendor-specific technologies.
  • Integrating BIRT with PHP posted Mar 03, 2009
    The Eclipse BIRT project is best known as a report-creation tool that supports multiple data sources and produces many different forms of output. The BIRT Viewer and the BIRT engine work well in a Java/J2EE environment, but what if your web applications are built using PHP? In order to call BIRT from PHP, a PHP-to-Java bridge is necessary. Jason Weathersby demonstrates how you can use BIRT with PHP using a bridge to generate reports from PHP Web applications.
  • OSGi Takes Off Among Enterprise Service Bus Providers posted Mar 02, 2009
    The OSGi Alliance announced that many leading Enterprise Service Bus providers in the market have demonstrated their commitment to the platform through the current or planned employment of OSGi technology in their ESBs and products that utilize ESBs.
  • Tasktop Guarantees Productivity Gains for Eclipse Developers -- Eclipse Mylyn-based Tasktop Pro Now Backed by Unique 100% Guarantee posted Feb 23, 2009
    Tasktop Technologies, the company behind the popular Eclipse Mylyn open source task management software, announced a unique 100% money-back guarantee for Tasktop Pro users. Tasktop Pro is the company's full-featured product for software developers based on Eclipse Mylyn. Dr. Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop Technologies, said "I've always been fascinated by the way that software tools can transform our ability to work, so it's exciting for Tasktop to be offering the first productivity promise of this sort."
  • Innovations releases Visual Rules 4.4 posted Feb 20, 2009
    Innovations Software Technology today announces the release of the Visual Rules Enterprise Platform 4.4, the premier Business Rules Management (BRM) Platform. The highlight of this release is the extension of the management components with Visual Rules Execution Server.
  • Equinox Case Study: Equinox Guides Banks to Sound Credit Decisions (PDF Link) posted Feb 19, 2009
    Equinox was perfect for us. It takes care of many of the integration details for us and the bundle mechanism is ideal for mixing and matching functionality to meet specific use cases.
  • The Open-Source Collaboration Gap posted Feb 18, 2009
    When it comes to open-source communities, individuals are much better citizens than institutions. The enlightened self-interest that causes individuals to send back bug fixes, contribute ideas for new features and write documentation is much harder to find in institutions. This week, the JargonSpy analyzes why such a gap exists and what can be done about it.
  • Meet This Year's Top Committer Nominees posted Feb 17, 2009
    Today we complete our trilogy of interviews with the Individual Eclipse Community Awards nominees with the Top Committer nominees.
  • Meet This Year's Top Contributor Nominees posted Feb 17, 2009
    Continuing our coverage of the Individual Eclipse Community Awards, following on from yesterday's interviews with the Top Ambassador nominees, today we interview the nominees for the Top Contributor category.
  • Meet This Year's Top Ambassador Nominees posted Feb 17, 2009
    The Eclipse Awards Season is in full swing this month, with voting open for the Individual Eclipse Community Awards. DZone interviewed each of the nominees for the awards, to give you a little background before you decide to vote.
  • Aonix Releases ObjectAda for Wind River VxWorks RTOS posted Feb 12, 2009
    ObjectAda for VxWorks leverages Wind River Workbench, an Eclipse-based development environment providing developers access to the broad range of tools available through the Eclipse framework. With support for multiple operating systems, architectures and programming languages, ObjectAda for VxWorks provides the flexibility to standardize on a single development framework.
  • Cisco To Add BIRT To Network Access Control System posted Feb 12, 2009
    BIRT, which is Actuate's Eclipse Foundation project, will provide interactive data for network monitoring and planning within the Web-based interface of Cisco's Secure Access Control Server.
  • Eclipse GUI Test Automation: American Power Conversion Corp. uses Squish for Java posted Feb 10, 2009
    The team researched for a suitable tool, and during that process they downloaded an evaluation copy of Squish. They used the evaluation copy to produce a proof of concept, and having successfully done this, they then contacted several companies who were already using Squish for their test efforts. After completing their research and satisfying themselves that Squish would meet their needs, they purchased their Squish licenses.
    From a technical point of view, several reasons led to APC choosing Squish for automating InfraStruXure's functional GUI tests, rather than some other tool. On key reason was Squish's cross-platform support, which means that the same test scripts can be run against their user interface on both Windows and Linux.
  • Wavecom introduces fully integrated development environment for automotive and machine-to-machine applications (PDF Link) posted Feb 04, 2009
    Replacing the existing Open AT® IDE, M2M Studio fully integrates previously isolated tools such as the source code editor, project build wizard, target download, RTE mode monitor, JTAG debugger, traces emulator and development tool chain, all within the Eclipse Ganymede framework. Eclipse and CDT (C/C++ Development Tools plug-in) are becoming the industry standard for C and C++ development in the embedded world.
  • Case study: Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform Use at CAS Software AG posted Feb 02, 2009
    Most recently CAS Software has been working on a product called CAS PIA (Personal Information Assistant) which will be a SaaS (Software as a Service) offering, the first such offering from CAS. It is built on a number of technologies which will be discussed in more detail later. This case study will take a focus on Eclipse RAP (Rich Ajax Platform) and how it was applied to the architecture of CAS PIA, as well as some interesting uses for RAP, lessons learned by CAS while using it, and future directions for their products.
  • Fünf Jahre Eclipse Foundation posted Feb 02, 2009
    Die Entwicklungsumgebung Eclipse ist ohne Frage ein sehr populäres Open-Source-Projekt, und spätestens 2004 mit Veröffentlichung der 3.x-Entwicklungsschiene hat sich die IDE-Landschaft in der Java-Welt grundlegend geändert. Mittlerweile ist Eclipse nicht mehr nur auf die Java-Programmiersprache begrenzt. 2008 waren zum Beispiel die PHP Development Tools (PDT) – also Eclipse-Plug-ins für PHP-Entwickler, um Eclipse als IDE nutzen zu können – das Eclipse-Projekt, das am zweithäufigsten heruntergeladen wurde. Die Gründung eines eigenen Top-Level-Projekts zum Thema Eclipse als Runtime-Umgebung deutet hingegen auf eine neue erfolgversprechende Strategie hin.
  • Instantiations Expands into Japanese Market with SureAvenue posted Jan 30, 2009
    Instantiations and SureAvenue, a solution provider for system consultation and system development, have announced an official reseller relationship. Under terms of the agreement, SureAvenue is exclusively licensed to resell Instantiations' GUI development, quality improvement, and software testing tools in Japan.
  • Jetty Web server flies to Eclipse posted Jan 29, 2009
    Jetty already has been part of several Eclipse projects, including acting as the Web and application server for Equinox, the Eclipse OSGi-based plug-in platform for application development, Webtide said.
  • Winding Road Leads Skyway to Open Source Code-Generation Framework posted Jan 29, 2009
    It's hard to overstate the impact that open source technologies have had on the software industry. One recent example: Skyway Software, provider of an open-source code-generation framework for Spring-based applications, called Skyway Builder. The Tampa-based company last week announced the general availability of Skyway Builder 6.1, which is all about delivering Java EE apps for Spring. But the company started out going in a different direction.
  • Eclipse Foundation snuggles up to Microsoft posted Jan 29, 2009
    He explained that the majority of Eclipse developers target Windows, and that Eclipse could serve as an onramp to help bring developers to Microsoft's platforms. "It's a win-win for both parties," he declared, noting that 84% of all Eclipse downloads are for the Windows platform.
  • Building Better Phone Applications with Eclipse posted Jan 28, 2009
    The benefits of this approach are particularly strong when building multi-channel phone applications, since dedicated tools can be used for the specific technical needs of the different channels. Even better, many of these tools are available as free downloads such as the ones we take a closer look at here.
  • EMF Refcard Released - Meet The Authors posted Jan 28, 2009
    Today, DZone releases the Eclipse Modelling Framework Refcard, with all you need to get started using EMF, the most popular framework among Eclipse users and projects. Ed Merks was the primary author of this Refcard, with me co-authoring as a user of EMF. Here, Ed answers some questions about the Refcard and EMF.
  • EMF: Eclipse Modelling Framework (Your Chance to Win a Copy) posted Jan 28, 2009
    As a user of EMF, I know how much this book has been anticipated, and it hasn't failed to deliver. This book will appeal to both long time users of EMF and developers who want to get started with the technology. Anyone interested in model driven development within Eclipse will learn a lot from this edition. So much in the Eclipse community is based on EMF that it is essential to understand it's architecture and capabilities.
  • Eclipse goal to become 'management-aware' in 2009 posted Jan 27, 2009
    Developers might get the picture, but Eclipse reckons it had better ramp up awareness its products among senior management as it moves beyond tools in 2009.

    Eclipse Foundation marketing director Ian Skerrett has blogged it's important to help senior business and technology executives to understand the Foundation as it moves into runtimes.
  • Instantiations Extends Security Auditing with CodePro AnalytiX v6.0 Release posted Jan 22, 2009
    Instantiations, Inc. announced v6.0 of CodePro AnalytiX, adding new OWASP-based security auditing rules, support for mock objects, new rules for web services auditing, and extended JUnit testing support for Spring, Struts and EJB (Enterprise Java Beans) frameworks.
  • A developer's-eye view of smartphone platforms posted Jan 21, 2009
    The deepest differences may be in the language itself. Google chose Java, a language that's well understood by many new graduates. Then it built special plug-ins for Eclipse, so all of the lovers of programming Java with Eclipse can write code, push a button, and simulate running their app on the phone in a separate Java process. The tools are all available for free, and it takes only a few minutes to get the Hello World application up and running, most of which is spent waiting for Eclipse to create a bazillion objects of its own as it starts.
  • Develop a GPS-aware application for the Nokia N810, Part 1 posted Jan 15, 2009
    Learn how to configure a development environment targeted at the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, including setting up Eclipse on a target development machine for the Python language.
  • Equinox Refcard Now Available - An Interview With Jeff McAffer posted Jan 12, 2009
    DZone today launched the Equinox Refcard, covering everything that you need to know to get started on writing OSGi bundles for Equinox, Eclipse's OSGi implementation. The Refcard is written by the project's founder and co-leader, Jeff McAffer. I asked Jeff some questions about Equinox to coincide with the release of the Refcard.
  • Instantiations Co-Founders Release Third Edition of Leading Eclipse Plug-in Development Book posted Dec 22, 2008
    Eclipse software experts Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel today announced the availability of the third edition of their book, Eclipse Plug-ins, published by Addison-Wesley Professional. Building on two internationally best-selling previous editions titled Eclipse: Building Commercial Quality Plug-ins, the book has been fully revised to reflect the powerful new capabilities of Eclipse 3.4 and Java 5. book "Eclipse Plug-Ins"
  • Dynamic Language IDEs: Aptana Ruby and DLTK Ruby posted Dec 19, 2008
    The Eclipse based Ruby development tools have been around for many years and were widely used, particularly in Rails development through the extensions provided by RadRails. RDT and RadRails have both been integrated into Aptana Studio some time ago, and RDT's main developer, Chris Williams, has been hired by Aptana.
  • Micro Focus launches COBOL for Eclipse posted Dec 19, 2008
    Stuart McGill, CTO at Micro Focus, said: “The release of COBOL for Eclipse is an important step for Micro Focus as we look to provide our customers with the tools needed to develop applications across any environment.”
  • Open-source Software Security Vendor Praises 25 Projects posted Dec 17, 2008
    Palamida, a vendor that sells software and services around open-source software security and legal compliance, has named 25 open-source projects companies should not hesitate to use.

    Some, such as the Eclipse IDE (integrated development environment) and the MySQL database, are widely known. But Palamida also included software like the FreeType font engine and script.aculo.us, a set of JavaScript libraries for Web 2.0-style applications and sites.
  • Sprint launches open software platform posted Dec 11, 2008
    The Sprint Open Software Platform offers support for existing MIDP Java ME applications as well as the CDC/Foundation Java Virtual Machine and OSGi framework. In addition, support for the Eclipse embedded Rich Client application model enables the platform to run generically-written rich GUI applications across a range of devices and desktop computers.
  • MyEclipse 7.0: The Best Blend for JavaScript and REST Web Services posted Dec 10, 2008
    Genuitec announced today the production release of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 7.0. The new release, built upon Eclipse 3.4.1/Ganymede, delivers the most comprehensive environment for Ajax and Web Services in the Eclipse space.
  • Now released: Visual Rules 4.3 posted Nov 24, 2008
    Innovations Software Technology today announces the release of the Visual Rules Enterprise Platform 4.3, the premier Business Rules Management (BRM) Platform. The highlight of this release is the Team Server, a centralized rule repository, which provides for the team-based development and management of business rules.
  • Open Source BI: Eclipse BIRT and Talend posted Nov 21, 2008
    Information Week has published my article on open source business intelligence (OSBI), Open Source BI Still Fighting For Its Share, a title that applies both to the BI software market and to IW column inches. (The article is now also an Intelligent Enterprise feature.) I'll share with readers material I wrote, cut by IW's editors, on open-source data-integration vendor Talend and on Eclipse BIRT, Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools.
  • Single Sourcing, Agility and OSGi posted Nov 20, 2008
    It’s not a typical article title, but from day one of Eclipse Summit Europe these are the three main points I’ve taken away. I haven’t been to ESE before, but I must say it has really blown me away. I really enjoyed today – I got to meet a lot of people in the Eclipse community that I haven’t seen in person, and they are as helpful as possible. I really believe after today that Eclipse will become the definitive Java community. So, let me address these points one by one.
  • Foundations for the World Wide Grid posted Nov 20, 2008
    "You can think of g-Eclipse as a browser for what will become the World Wide Grid," says Stümpert. "It searches for and displays the resources that are available, and allows the user to access them. Complicated computing jobs which need more processing or storage than are available on the user’s system can be sent to the grid. Data can be transferred from the local computer to the grid and workflows can be managed."
  • Programming Heroes: A Conversation With Ed Merks posted Nov 17, 2008
    The first in the Programming Heroes category of our DZone Conversations sees us talking with Ed Merks, of EMF and Eclipse fame. The Programming Heroes series gives me the chance to talk to some of the people that I think have lead the trends in software development. The work that Ed has put behind the modelling projects at Eclipse has been tremendous. Ed had been working with IBM for a long time, and earlier this year left to do his own thing. We find out more about the projects he's interested in, as well as how Ed got into programming, and his advice for new software developers.
  • XMind 3 Goes Broad and Deep, Extends Into Online Sharing posted Nov 17, 2008
    XMind, a leader in mind mapping, visual thinking and collaboration software, today announced XMind 3, a major release of its award-winning product. With the goal of making XMind more accessible to a broader audience and more powerful for professional users, XMind is making avaiable both a royalty-free open source edition, XMind 3, and a subscription-based professional edition, XMind Pro 3. Both editions are also enabled for online sharing and collaboration via XMind Share, a new website which allows XMind users to share their mind maps and other visual thinking content in a Web 2.0 style online community.
  • Tasktop Autumn 2008: Linux and Firefox posted Nov 13, 2008
    The Tasktop Team is very pleased to announce the Autumn 2008 release of Tasktop (v1.3). In addition to the new features that our users are accustomed to getting once per season, we are very pleased to announce a Linux version. The other big news is that Firefox users now get automatic session restore for each task, bug and issue that they work on.
  • MyEclipse Delivers New Life for Eclipse Europa Users posted Nov 13, 2008
    Genuitec announced today the immediate availability of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 6.6. This release is focused on increased support and choice for customers standardized on Eclipse Europa (Eclipse 3.3).
  • Higgins Project: Seeking identity management without Microsoft restrictions posted Nov 03, 2008
    Digital identity and digital identity management are key aspects of security for both home and corporate users. The capacity to validate identity and the ability to securely perform transactions online form the basis of consumer and business-to-business interactions. Without a valid digital identity and a mechanism to securely store, manage and transmit that identity, there can be no trust between transacting entities.
  • Breaking Market Barriers: The Open Source Business Strategy (PDF) posted Oct 27, 2008
    When investors see the margins on BIRT-related sales, the brand awareness, the new industries and geographic markets we’ve opened, and the compelling prospect of future growth, they are very impressed.
  • RIM Reaches Out to Java Jocks posted Oct 23, 2008
    The complete developer tool update includes a new public beta of the BlackBerry JDE plug-in for Eclipse, new releases of the BlackBerry plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio, the BlackBerry MDS Studio and Plazmic Content Developer's Kit for the BlackBerry platform.
  • SDK shoot-out: Android vs. iPhone posted Oct 23, 2008
    The standard IDE for Android, on the other hand, is Eclipse, which has seemingly become the de facto development environment for just about every platform other than Mac OS X and Windows. Google provides a plug-in that does a good job of integrating the Android tools with Eclipse, including a software emulator to test builds of your apps.
  • Symbian Foundation: To EPL or Not to EPL? posted Oct 22, 2008
    By choosing the Eclipse Public License as the license for the software to come out of the Symbian Foundation, the group takes a road safely chosen. The Eclipse Foundation welcomes the foundation’s support. But what about the GPL?
  • RIM Updates BlackBerry Developer Tools posted Oct 22, 2008
    Research In Motion (RIM) today announced new versions of various BlackBerry developer tools that further support innovative, streamlined mobile application development for BlackBerry(R) smartphones. The developer tool updates include a new public beta of the BlackBerry(R) JDE(R) Plug-in for Eclipse, as well as new releases of the BlackBerry(R) Plug-in for Microsoft(R) Visual Studio(R), BlackBerry(R) MDS Studio, and Plazmic Content Developer's Kit(TM) for the BlackBerry platform.
  • Symbian releases free application development tool posted Oct 21, 2008
    Symbian released a free tool on Tuesday that lets developers see how their code performs on the mobile operating system.

    The Symbian Analysis Workbench (SAW) is a prepackaged set of Eclipse-based tools for optimizing Symbian C++ code, according to the company, which is in the process of being acquired by Nokia.
  • Instantiations Doubles Security Audit Rules with CodePro AnalytiX Upgrade posted Oct 17, 2008
    Instantiations, Inc., a leading provider of Eclipse-based commercial software solutions to improve software quality and productivity, today announced an upgrade to its comprehensive code quality product, CodePro AnalytiX. Through intense automation of audits, metrics, and best practices, CodePro AnalytiX ensures superior software quality and maximum developer productivity throughout the entire code development cycle. With this upgrade, Instantiations more than doubles the number of security audit rules to 150, bringing the industry's most comprehensive Java code auditing library to over 1,100 rules.
  • Eclipse offers mobile dev tools posted Oct 16, 2008
    Seeking to establish Eclipse as the standard mobile development platform, the Eclipse Foundation on Wednesday is offering the first major release of its Eclipse Mobile Tools for Java Project (MTJ).
    MTJ is a set of plug-ins for the Eclipse IDE offering capabilities for developing embedded or Java ME (Micro Edition) applications, said Christian Kurzke, project lead for MTJ and a developer tools architect at Motorola. "It's a set of tools on top of Eclipse that makes it much easier to develop mobile apps," Kurzke said.
  • Microsoft co-sponsors Eclipse project for Silverlight posted Oct 16, 2008
    Microsoft is throwing its support behind the creation of an Eclipse project to integrate the IDE with Silverlight technology.
    The proposed project, Silverlight Development Toolkit (SLDT), was submitted by open-source solution developer Soyatec and is being co-sponsored by Microsoft. The project objective is to foster cross-platform Silverlight development with Eclipse.
  • Eclipse Tools for Microsoft Silverlight posted Oct 16, 2008
    Soyatec announces the launch of an Open Source project Eclipse Tools for Microsoft Silverlight, with technical and financial help from Microsoft, and the donation of one Visual Editor component used in eFace to this project.
  • Eclipse Mobile Tools for Java Reaches 0.9 posted Oct 16, 2008
    The Eclipse Foundation officially released version 0.9 of its Mobile Tools for Java (MTJ) project. This version subsumes the previously separate EclipseME project, officials said.
    MTJ’s code is designed to simplify life for software vendors who target devices from companies like Motorola, Nokia and Sony Ericsson, using those companies’ software development kits, said project leader Christian Kurzke, a developer tools architect at Motorola.
  • Polarion Software Launches Polarion Track & Wiki - Web-based Bug Tracking, Wiki-based Team Collaboration and Subversion-based version control rolled into one posted Oct 09, 2008
    Polarion Software, creators of fully integrated application lifecycle management solutions and services, today announced the launch of Polarion Track & Wiki. Another industry first for a software development productivity tool set, the fully integrated product delivers a full-featured bug tracker, and robust team collaboration with a wiki that breaks the information barrier that has always existed in other tracker and wiki solutions. Automated version control features with Subversion round out the product.
  • Write native iPhone applications using Eclipse CDT posted Oct 02, 2008
    Learn how to use the Eclipse C Development Toolkit (CDT) to program native applications for the Apple iPhone, using open source tools to enable iPhone OS development on any Eclipse-supported platform.