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Community Buzz

  • Introducing EclipseLink +8 weeks ago

    The Eclipse Persistence Services Project, more commonly known as EclipseLink, is a comprehensive open source persistence solution. EclipseLink was started by a donation of the full source code and test suites of Oracle's TopLink product. This project brings the experience of over 12 years of commercial usage and feature development to the entire Java community. This evolution into an open source project is now complete and developers will soon have access to the EclipseLink 1.0 release.

  • Eclipse Ganymede: An in-depth look at RAP (Rich Ajax Platform) +10 weeks ago

    As part of the upcoming Eclipse Ganymede release which is scheduled for June 25th, InfoQ will cover a series of Eclipse subprojects. Today, the subproject is RAP (Rich Ajax Platform), which is releasing version 1.1. InfoQ spoke with Jochen Krause to learn more about RAP and what it provides.

  • Understanding the Eclipse p2 Provisioning System +10 weeks ago

    p2 is the new provisioning system which will be provided along with the Eclipse Ganymede release on June 25th. This is one feature that I didn't really follow closely enough,so I was really happy when I called Pascal Rapicault to get an explanation from the project lead.Ian Skerrett has recently blogged about 10 reasons p2 is going to rock, and after reading this, I'm sure you'll agree.

  • Eclipse Ganymede Part 1: What's in it for SOA? +10 weeks ago

    This is the first in a series of four articles previewing the Eclipse Foundation's annual downloadable project release, code named Ganymede, which is set for Wednesday, June 25.

  • Eclipse Ganymede: An in-depth look at ECF (Eclipse Communication Framework) +10 weeks ago

    s part of the upcoming Eclipse Ganymede release, scheduled for June 25th, InfoQ is covering a series of Eclipse subprojects. Today, the topic is the Eclipse Communication Framework. InfoQ spoke with Scott Lewis, project lead for ECF and Principal at his consulting company, Composent, Inc to learn more about ECF and what capabilities it provides.

What are others doing with Equinox?

  • "The push towards Eclipse, Equinox and OSGi in runtime scenarios has huge potential. So much so that we started Code 9 explicitly to provide the education, mentoring and technological expertise needed by companies looking to step up their IT agility."

  • "Equinox is a core part of Innoopract's Yoxos Eclipse distribution offerings and the focus of our strategic commitment to Eclipse. Innoopract has been a pioneer in modularizing web applications on top of Equinox, and contributes to the Equinox Community with the Rich Ajax platform and project leadership."

  • "Equinox enables the efficient and componentized distribution of IBM's platform, middleware, and most importantly, our customers' applications," said Jim Colson, Distinguished Engineer and CTO, Client Technologies, IBM Software Group. Equinox and OSGi are used in hundreds of IBM Software products including IBM Lotus Notes and Sametime, WebSphere Application Server, Rational Application Developer, and the Jazz technology platform and forthcoming Jazz-based Rational Team Concert".

  • "It is less than a year ago that Deutsche Post made the strategic decision to contribute its SOA platform SOPERA to Eclipse. In order to even better participate in the Eclipse innovation network it is now time to move on. Deutsche Post counts on the Equinox platform which is driven forward in the Eclipse Runtime Initiative."

  • "Eclipse Equinox enables Open-Xchange to provide highly scalable collaboration server components, installation and administration tools optimized for ISPs, hosters and telcos. In combination with Eclipse Equinox, Open-Xchange Server, with its fault tolerant design, self-healing abilities and serviceability without any downtime requirements, plus scalability and maintenance features, is ideally suited for large scale deployments for up to several millions of concurrent users."

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