Ember Ships EmberZNet 2.0 ZigBee Software:Wireless Design & Development

Source: WirelessDesignAsia

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Ember Corp.'s EmberZNet 2.0 ZigBee networking software is a second-generation ZigBee protocol stack designed for self-organizing, self-healing wireless networks using a variety of network topologies, including mesh, star, and cluster tree. It provides all the standards-based benefits inherent in the ZigBee specification, including high reliability, high security, broad interoperability, low cost, long battery life, and integrated network management.
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Customers can also accelerate EmberZNet application development using Ember WorkBench, an Eclipse-based integrated development environment. Ember WorkBench enables developers to develop and debug applications across an entire network, as opposed to debugging each node on the network as required by competitive development tools.

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Open Source Company Koders' Early Access Program Provides Eclipse and VS.NET Plug-Ins

Source: SYS-CON NETHERLANDS

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Koders, Inc. has introduced new plug-in enhancements that have the potential to transform the way developers write code, the company says, by actively providing recommendations for code reuse while they work.

Koders says it has the world's largest open source code search engin, containing over 225 million lines of source. Its new Early Access Program for Eclipse and VS.NET plug-ins features a new Smart Search Service and localization support. The new Smart Search Service provides developers with code recommendations in real-time, by monitoring new code as its created and visually notifying developers of opportunities to reuse existing code from Koders.com.

Without the need to leave their preferred IDEs, developers have access to tens of thousands of open source software projects that they can cut-and-paste into their own applications. The new plug-ins also introduce language localization support for English, German, Russian, and Hindi. Support for users behind proxies has also been enhanced.

The EAP continues through December 31, 2005. Additional information on Koders is available at www.koders.com.

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Concepts of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform: What It's All About

Source: InformIT

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The Eclipse environment is very rich, but there are just a few concepts and mechanisms that are essential to Eclipse-ness. In this chapter, we introduce these concepts, define some terminology, and ground these concepts and terms in technical detail. The ultimate goal is to show you how Eclipse fits together, both physically and conceptually.

Even if you are familiar with Eclipse, you might want to flip through this chapter to ensure we have a common base of understanding and terminology. Writing RCP applications is subtly different than just writing plug-ins. You have the opportunity to define more of the look and feel, the branding, and other fundamental elements of Eclipse. Understanding these fundamentals enables you to get the most out of the platform. With this understanding, you can read the rest of the book and see how Eclipse fits into your world.

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Crystal Reports for Eclipse touted as a Java-based reporting solution

Source: ADTmag.com

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Actuate saw a bona fide opportunity last year when it came on board the open-source Eclipse Foundation as a strategic developer. J2EE programmers had long bemoaned the absence of a native Java reporting solution for Eclipse, the world's most popular Java integrated development environment, and Actuate promised to give them just that, with the Business Intelligence Reporting Tool. It now turns out that Actuate's opportunity isn't unique.

At its Insight 2005 conference in Orlando, Business Objects announced a preview release of its market-leading Crystal Reports tool?for Eclipse.

Like BIRT, the new Crystal Reports plug-in for Eclipse is billed as a completely Java-based reporting solution. And, like BIRT, Crystal Reports for Eclipse promises native integration with the IDE of the same name.

Unlike BIRT, however, Crystal Reports for Eclipse isn't the collaborative fruit of a close-knit community of developers. And in a Java space that's highly sympathetic to open-source and collaborative development projects, that counts for a lot.

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Creating Web Applications with the Eclipse Web Tools Project

Source: SYS-CON FRANCE

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The Web Tools Project (WTP) by the Eclipse Foundation is a set of open source tools that substantially reduce the time required for the development of Web applications, EJBs, and Web services. The WTP's current version is 0.7.1 and version 1.0 is coming later this year. The framework provides wizards and tools to create EJBs, Web components such as servlets and JSPs, and Web services using the Axis engine. It also provides source editors for HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JSP, SQL, XML, DTD, XSD, and WSDL; graphical editors for XSD, WSDL, J2EE project builders, models, and a J2EE navigator; a Web service wizard, explorer, and WS-I Test Tools; and database access, query tools, and models.

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Eclipse CDT Gains Momentum, Sets Priorities: Financial News

Source: Yahoo! Finance

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QNX Software Systems, the company leading the C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) project on behalf of the Eclipse Foundation, today announced the development objectives set by the contributing members at the CDT Contributors Summit held last month.

The CDT team agreed upon several priorities for the next release of the CDT code base, including improved build management and debugging. A new indexer, called the Persisted Document Object Model (PDOM), will also be developed to improve system performance. The group will also work on making it easier for vendors to build commercial releases based on the CDT framework through finer grained componentization and more concise API documentation.

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Exadel: Navigating The Rocky Shoals of Open Source Development

Source: IT-Analysis.com

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Many organizations recognize and are embracing the economic benefits of choosing open source solutions to create business-critical enterprise applications. Open source software is reliable, secure, scalable and well suited for all types of enterprise business requirements when it has been correctly developed and deployed. The problem is that actually using open source to develop mission-critical business solutions is neither as simple nor as straightforward as open source vendors would have you believe.
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While a plethora of open source technologies have come to market, few software vendors have thus far been able to deliver an open source software development model that economically fulfills the broad requirements of enterprise requirements. Too often, in an effort to win a competitive advantage using trendy technology, most software vendors seem to be more concerned with creating their own Eclipse plug-ins, or going for the glitz of cranking up speeds and feeds, or adding bells and whistles to "me-too" products, rather than take the less glamorous but more customer-specific approach that solves real business problems. Few can deliver the right affordable combination of open source tools, development environment, infrastructure, and services to actually help developers with varying skills and knowledge of open source to quickly solve real business problems. So it is refreshing to find that rare company with an innovative set of open source solutions and effective go-to-market services and expertise able to help organizations derive the benefits of using open source.

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Advanced logging tool gets support for .NET 2.0 and Eclipse

Source: PRLeap

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Gurock Software, a German startup specialized in software development tools, announces the release of the new SmartInspect version 1.2. SmartInspect is an advanced logging tool for debugging and monitoring .NET, Java and Delphi applications. The major new features of SmartInspect 1.2 are support for .NET 2.0, Eclipse 3.x integration and the new Redistributable Console.

The new Redistributable Console is a feature-reduced version of the full SmartInspect Console and can be shipped to end-users royalty-free. This enables SmartInspect customers to ship a modern and feature rich log viewer application to their users. By using the Redistributable Console, end-users can monitor their systems, identify configuration problems and solve simple issues by themselves.

Microsoft just released .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 and Gurock Software is following with complete support for these platforms. SmartInspect 1.2 includes a new .NET 2.0 compatible library ready for production use. Additionally, the SmartInspect setup now integrates SmartInspect automatically into the Visual Studio 2005 IDE.

Eclipse is a leading IDE for Java and other development platforms. Gurock Software is happy to introduce support for Eclipse 3.x with SmartInspect 1.2. The SmartInspect setup automatically generates an appropriate user library ready for import into Eclipse. This semi-automatic integration makes it even easier to use SmartInspect with Eclipse 3.x.

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Cape Clear ESB 6.5 Provides Eclipse-Based Development Environment

Source: SYS-CON FRANCE

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Cape Clear Software will make its latest product, Cape Clear 6.5, available in early December. The company has focused on three key benefits in this software, as it targets the provision of full support for mission critical enterprise-wide service deployments:

1. Unified Eclipse Toolset - A unified SOA development toolset that reduces application development time and effort. Cape Clear 6.5 provides a single, integrated toolset within the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment, including enhanced BPEL, XML/WSDL and Java development tools. This toolset supports seamless source code control system integration, single-click deploy-and-test capabilities, and automatic detection and configuration of application server environments.

2. Standards-Based Security ? Guaranteed comprehensive and interoperable security across services. Cape Clear 6.5 provides a powerful new security policy framework for WS-Security and the WS-I basic security profile.

3. Mission Critical Scalability ? Enhanced reliability and scalability for enterprise-wide deployments. Cape Clear 6.5 provides comprehensive ?one-click? clustering capability, enabling load-balancing and high-availability for stateful BPEL processes.

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Eclipse.org Data Tools Project DTP Gets Started

Source: SYS-CON EN ESPANOL

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The Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) project is a new top-level project at eclipse.org. Originally proposed by Sybase in February, 2005, DTP has attracted strong community support and is currently managed by a committee comprised of Sybase, IBM and Actuate. Since DTP is in the early milestone phase, this is an opportune time to explain the motivation and current plans of DTP to the Eclipse community at large. Doing so will provide valuable context to interested parties ? both potential consumers and contributors ? and enable additional community involvement at this crucial formative stage.

Motivation for DTP

In a very short time span Eclipse has become a premier development platform, and a vibrant ecosystem has grown around it. Built for extensibility from the start, Eclipse has enabled and nurtured extensions by providing solid technical, educational, and mindshare leadership in the development platform space. Indeed, it no longer is a question of whether Eclipse will succeed, but rather the extent to which it will prosper. A key element in this growth is the vibrant extender community.

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Sun Debuts Java Studio Enterprise 8 In Shadow of Eclipse

Source: CRN

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Sun's Java programming language continues to grow in use but the company's development tools and middleware platform is getting eclipsed by a key open source rival, partners say.

As Microsoft unveiled its long awaited Visual Studio 2005 earlier this week, Sun announced a significant upgrade of its Java Studio Enterprise at JavaOne Tokyo on Wednesday.

Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8, built on the company's NetBeans 4.1 IDE, offers numerous benefits including enhanced Unified Modeling Language (UML) support, real-time collaboration, new mobile and wireless features, integrated load testing and support for Solaris 10. It is available free to all registered developers on the Sun Developer Network.

NetBeans 4.1 was announced last May. To date, Sun claims more than 4.5 million copies of the open source IDE have been downloaded since the Sun-sponsored open source project debuted in 2000.

Still, several Sun partners are moving to Eclipse development platform. They are also betting that open source middleware stacks such as JBoss will crush Sun's commercial and open source implementations of the Java Enterprise System.

"There's no Java Studio, everything is Eclipse now. We have moved exclusively to Eclipse. We have moved to Apache/JBoss/Tomcat for infrastructure software as a service offerings," said Doug Nassaur, president of True North Technologies, a former Sun partner in Alpharetta, Ga. "We have also moved off messaging and file sharing to open source alternatives and are evaluating a database move as well."

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Business Objects previews Crystal Eclipse

Source: eChannelLine Canada

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Business Objects has announced a preview release of Crystal Reports for Eclipse. This new version will provide a 100 percent Java-based report design and deployment environment for application developers. With the preview release, application developers can create new reports or use existing Crystal Reports documents, and integrate them directly into applications. This new version will take full advantage of the Eclipse user interface, including dockable panes and context sensitive menus to customize the reports without ever leaving the Eclipse development environment. In addition, Business Objects is providing a development and test license of the embedded reporting engine that lets developers build report viewing directly within client-server and web applications. The preview and the test version of the embedded reporting engine license will be delivered in Q4 of 2005. Eclipse developers can register today for the free download at http://www.businessobjects.com/eclipse.

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Free J2ME Visual IDE based on eclipse

Source: NewsForge

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Wirelexsoft, pioneers in powerful Visual Driven Development (VDD �) tools for mobile platforms, today announced the release and pricing of VistaMax IDE 1.2 for J2ME MIDP 2.0 platforms. Two editions are offered: a Professional Edition and a ?free? Community Edition.

VistaMax IDE is a complete end-to-end graphical-based Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment. It is the next generation of development tools with such novel features as application design by "drag & drop" from a palette, an extensive palette rich with GUI and non-GUI components, Links to associate events with transitions between application components, full graphical representations of all application components, Localization with an advanced "Preview" feature, MMI simulation capabilities and many more.


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Eclipse Foundation director: Open up, Microsoft

Source: TechTarget

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Over the past year, Eclipse Foundation executive director Mike Milinkovich has seen his organization's numbers double as open source applications -- especially ones relating to Java -- have taken off in the mainstream.

Eclipse is an open source and modular integrated development environment based on Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java language and provides application developers with programming tools. Some key members of Eclipse include BEA Systems, IBM, Computer Associates International, Nokia, Sybase, Zend and SAP.

In this interview, Milinkovich addresses the growing pains of Eclipse; how a PHP/Java competition within Eclipse is good for the group as a whole, and why Microsoft should put its money where its mouth is and open up a few of its popular licenses.

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Wirelexsoft Announces New Pricing Schemes for Its Eclipse-Based Vistamax IDE for Series 60 and UIQ Symbian-Based Platforms

Source: PRWeb

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Wirelexsoft, pioneers in powerful Visual Driven Development (VDD ©) tools for mobile platforms, today announced new pricing schemes for VistaMax IDE 1.2 for Series 60 and UIQ Symbian-based platforms. A number of editions are offered, ranging from full-featured Professional Editions to free entry level Community Editions – please visit www.wirelexsoft.com/prices.html for details of features and prices.

VistaMax IDE is a complete end-to-end graphical-based Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment. It is the next generation of development tools with such novel features as application design by "drag & drop" from a palette, an extensive palette rich with GUI and non-GUI components, Event Links to associate events with transitions between application components, full graphical representations of all application components, Localization with an advanced "Preview" feature, MMI simulation capabilities, UML-Style platform-specific user-defined components and many more.

The Community Edition is free, yet it is so powerful in its features and capabilities compared to what’s available in the market for Series 60 and UIQ platforms.

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BEA Debuts Eclipse Plug-Ins Via M7 Technology for SOA Web Services

Source: SYS-CON FRANCE

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BEA acquired M7, and Eclipsed-based tools company, in late September, and now has moved to provide Eclipse plug-ins for its Workshop Studio 3.0 directly using M7 technology.

The BEA ?blended? application strategy, which brings together open-source and what the company calls commercial technolgoy, is the philosophical foundation behind BEA's recent moves, according to company spokespeople. M7's NitroX will be fully integrated into the BEA brand with the latest announcement, a company spokesperson also noted.


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Wind River upgrades developer Workbench to Eclipse 3.1

Source: LinuxDevices

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Wind River today announced the latest version of its Eclipse-based toolsuite for device software development. Workbench 2.4 is one of the first embedded software development toolsuites to incorporate Eclipse version 3.1. The suite supports development of embedded software based on both Linux and VxWorks (the company's proprietary real-time operating system).

Wind River said its implementation of Eclipse 3.1 technology in Workbench 2.4 adds new processor architecture support for ARM 9, ColdFire, and XScale, and currently includes ARM and MIPS architecture support for the kernel mode debugging, ScopeTools, and System Viewer "on-chip debugging" functions. Linux platform build support is now available for both Windows and Solaris hosts, the company added.

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Business Objects plugs in to Eclipse

Source: ZDNet UK News

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Business intelligence software maker Business Objects has signalled its intention to join the Eclipse Foundation and move several products onto the open source platform.

"You'll see us as a member of Eclipse within the next few weeks," the company's Asia-Pacific pre-sales director Tracy Kent-Jones told a meeting of the media and customers last week. "We're going to be taking some of our products and moving them into the Eclipse framework as part of the value-added products around Eclipse".

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NASA's JPL Explores Eclipse

Source: ADTmag.com

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While NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers are exploring the bumpy, rocky terrain of Mars, the space agency's Jet Propulsion Lab is exploring the wideopen landscape of opensource software.
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"What Eclipse represents in multienvironments answered a lot of problems we were having," he says. Eclipse allows JPL to transfer code to other missions, retire "large amounts" of old code and reap savings. "It's kind of magical, and we're still able to use [existing] code to support" operations applications, Norris explains.

JPL plans to use apps based on Eclipse for its Spirit and Opportunity Rovers, the first time for JPL in a mission- critical operations setting.

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IBM Leads Open-Source Storage Effort

Source: PCWorld

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New vendor group, Aperi, will collaborate on common storage software.
IBM and eight other storage vendors are teaming up to form an open-source organization initially called Aperi, Big Blue announced Tuesday. The companies intend to work together to develop common storage software to manage different vendors' systems, making it easier for users dealing with disparate storage systems. The software will be made available free of charge.

The Aperi name comes from the Latin word meaning "to open." The vendors will contribute code to the Aperi effort, with IBM making the first donation of some of its storage infrastructure management technology, according to the company. The group will be managed by an independent, nonprofit organization with a multivendor board of directors, with more details to emerge shortly about the organization and the composition of the board.

Open-Source Effort
Aperi will be modeled after the Eclipse consortium set up by IBM in conjunction with other vendors to handle open-source projects to create development tools and frameworks for building software. Eclipse was spun out from IBM in early 2004 to become an independent, nonprofit organization called the Eclipse Foundation.

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IBM Contributes Software Development Blueprints to Eclipse

Source: IBM Rational Advisor

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IBM plans to contribute a subset of the IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP) to the Eclipse Foundation, an open source community that provides a free, Java-based platform to more easily produce software. A collection of methods and best practices for promoting quality and efficiency throughout software development projects, RUP has guided developers in projects ranging from small-scale product development to large industrial-strength systems. IBM's donation will also provide a foundation architecture and Web tools for the industry to engineer, collaborate on, share, and reuse software development best practices.

IBM's donation is designed to promote a collaborative, industry-wide effort to synthesize, share, and automate development processes and best practices among independent software vendors, IT organizations building integrated software systems, academia, the research community, and individual software professionals on small or large teams. If widely adopted, IBM envisions that RUP could improve software development practices within organizations and throughout the industry. It also could improve the ability to quickly respond to business and market changes that businesses are achieving through standardization in other areas, such as Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA) standards that integrate previously siloed data and applications with customers, partners, and suppliers.

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PHP Scripting Language Going Mainstream With Move Inside Eclipse Workbench

Source: InformationWeek

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Scripting languages such as PHP are driving high-powered, high-speed Web content such as Google Maps, raising their profile and credibility
PHP, the popular Web site scripting language, will soon be used in conjunction with mainstream programming languages, now that its parent firm, Zend Technologies Inc., joined the Eclipse Foundation as a strategic developer.

Zend will lend its expertise to an Eclipse "dynamic language" project that will let developers using integrated tools for scripting languages plug them into the Eclipse programmer's workbench. Eclipse plug-ins are development tools that follow Eclipse file formats and programming conventions.

If developer tools for PHP become Eclipse plug-ins, developers will find it easier to work with PHP alongside the Eclipse-ready C++, Java, and Microsoft's C# tools to develop Web applications. Code can move from one Eclipse-based tool to another and the files can be orchestrated to work together. "The (developer) community out there wants to link these things together," says Rod Smith, IBM's VP of emerging technology. IBM donated the original source code that became the Eclipse workbench.

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Zend advances open source language PHP

Source: Computerworld

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The open source scripting language PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) may gain a higher profile in the enterprise thanks to efforts from Zend Technologies.

The company later this year plans to launch the Zend PHP Framework, a development environment for PHP applications, and the company announced last week that it has joined the open source Eclipse Foundation. The initiatives are part of Zend's PHP Collaboration Project, which features assistance from companies such as IBM and Oracle.

Zend PHP Framework is intended to standardize the way PHP applications are built. In joining Eclipse, Zend plans to lead a project within Eclipse to develop a plug-in to the Eclipse workbench, for developing with PHP.

"The idea is to have an Eclipse plug-in here to leverage content [and] leverage the assets that have a Web services interface on it," and link to Java back-end systems, said Rod Smith, vice president of emerging technology at IBM.

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Eclipse Everywhere Buah

Source: php architect - The PHP Magazine for PHP Professionals

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Alexander Kirk has a new post that talks about Zends PHP Framework.

It’s been a little quiet lately. This is because I am working on a cute little project that I will be able to present soon. More when the time is ready.

There has been rumor lately that Zend (developer of PHP) will release a PHP Framework. This is nothing new, there has been a IDE (Zend ) for a long time now. But it will be based on Eclipse.

Also Macromedia announced that their new Flex 2.0 environment (Flashbuilder) will be based on Eclispe.

Why on earth Eclipse?! I think this is the most slowest IDEs available. It’s based on Java which makes it incredibly slow already and it’s so blown up that it’s unbelievable.

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Canoo upgrades UltraLight Eclipse Plugin for Rich Internet Applications

Source: IndicThreads.com

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Canoo has released an upgrade of its free Eclipse Integration plug-in. The Canoo plug-in for UltraLightClient (http://www.canoo.com/ulc) simplifies Rich Internet Application (RIA) development. It integrates UltraLightClient into the Eclipse IDE, thus enabling developers to deliver pure Java-based RIAs with unprecedented efficiency. The new plug-in version is now compatible with Eclipse 3.1 and is available for download at the UltraLightClient Code Community for free.

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Microsoft researcher, wiki creator joins Eclipse

Source: Computerworld

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Microsoft Corp. researcher Ward Cunningham is joining the Eclipse Foundation, according to a weblog entry posted by Eclipse Executive Director Mike Milinkovich Monday. Cunningham's role at the nonprofit foundation will be to help improve collaborative and cooperative efforts among members of the Eclipse open-source community.

Cunningham, a computer programmer, is best known as the inventor of the WikiWikiWeb or wiki concept to enable users of a Web site to quickly change its pages. He created the first wiki site, the Portland Pattern Repository, in 1995, focusing on people, projects and patterns in software development.

He joined Microsoft in December 2003, working as an architect in the company's patterns and practices group.


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Zend launches Eclipse plug-in

Source: ZDNet UK News

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Zend Technologies on Monday expanded its partner network in an effort to broaden the appeal of its PHP-based development tools.

The company sells a development tool for PHP ; through partnerships and its own development, Zend is beefing up its tools to improve PHP development for business applications.

Zend said it has created an add-on to the Eclipse open source development framework that will allow developers to use Zend's development tool with other Eclipse-based tools to write PHP-based Web applications.

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Wiki founder leaves Microsoft for Eclipse

Source: CNET News.com

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Ward Cunningham, the father of the the Wiki concept, has left Microsoft after a two-year stint, taking up a new post at the open source Eclipse Foundation.

Cunningham is leaving to become the developer tool maker's director of committer community development, according to Eclipse Foundation chief Mike Milinkovich, who posted news of the hiring on his blog.

"I've had the pleasure of interacting with Ward at several points in the past, and I've always found him to be a truly rare bird: someone who is both brilliant but also blessed with a warm and engaging personality," Milinkovich said on his blog.

At Microsoft, Cunningham worked as part of a team that gives customers guidance on how to architect their systems.

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Zend readies PHP development framework, joins Eclipse

Source: Computerworld

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Zend Technologies Inc. this week will announce Zend PHP Framework, a development environment for PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) applications. Zend also will reveal its participation in the open-source Eclipse Foundation.

The initiatives are part of the company's PHP Collaboration Project, to be announced at the Zend/PHP Conference & Expo in Burlingame, Calif. Companies such as IBM, Oracle Corp., MySQL AG, Intel Corp., Actuate Corp. and SugarCRM Inc. will be partnering with Zend on the project.

Due later this year, Zend PHP Framework is intended to standardize the way PHP applications are built. A goal of the effort is to foster the development of mission-critical PHP Web applications.

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IBM and Zend to Aim PHP at .NET Through Eclipse.org Open Source Foundation

Source: SYS-CON ITALIA

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According to Netcraft, 40% of all web applications already run PHP, but IBM and Zend have decided that PHP needs to be fattened up to take on .NET.

So in the next few days Zend is going to join the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer and kick off an overarching open source initiative that it calls the PHP Collaboration Project, to create an industrial-grade PHP web application development and deployment environment.

Among other things, Zend want a PHP Framework developed to standardize the way PHP applications are built and create a uniform code base for next-generation web applications. Eclipse will be the IDE.

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NetBeans was the early bird but has Eclipse caught the worm?

Source: IndicThreads

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Rich Unger is currently on the NetBeans Governance Board and has been a contributor to NetBeans for several years. He was honored at this year's NetBeans Software Day for his valuable contribution to the NetBeans platform.

In this interview Rich talks about NetBeans 5.0, NetBeans Profiler and the changing Java IDE market. He shares his views on plugin development for the NetBeans platform and on Eclipse. He also elaborates on why he thinks the field is wide open for client frameworks for desktop java apps and how it could come down to Swing vs SWT.

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IBM Donates Parts of Rational to Eclipse

Source: SDA Asia

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IBM has decided to contribute portions of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) to the Eclipse Foundation. RUP is a vast collection of methods and best practices for promoting quality and efficiency throughout software development...

IBM has decided to contribute portions of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) to the Eclipse Foundation. RUP is a vast collection of methods and best practices for promoting quality and efficiency throughout software development projects. IBM's donation will also provide a foundation architecture and Web-based tools for the industry to engineer, collaborate on, share and reuse software development best practices.

According to a press release, "IBM will contribute a subset of the IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP), a software process platform that has guided some 500,000 developers around the world in projects ranging from small-scale product development to large industrial-strength systems."

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Quest Software's JClass ServerChart Certified for Eclipse-Based IBM Rational Java Development Solutions

Source: SYS-CON CANADA

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Quest Software Inc., a leading provider of application, database and infrastructure management solutions, announced that the new version of JClass ServerChart is now certified by IBM as an integrated plug-in for the IBM Rational Software Development Platform (SDP), which is built on Eclipse. Version 5.5 of JClass ServerChart, part of JClass ServerViews, Quest's award-winning suite of Java components, now includes new usability enhancements for Java Web developers.

"End users have high expectations for usability and visualization in business Web applications, and JClass ServerViews dramatically reduces the time needed to add advanced charting and reporting to applications," said Larry Humphries, vice president of product management, application management solutions, Quest Software. "And when plugged into the IBM Rational SDP, JClass now helps developers exceed those expectations for usability." JClass ServerViews is a set of 100 percent Java components that helps developers add professional charts and documents to their Servlet, JavaServer Pages (JSP) and JavaServer Faces (JSF) applications, enabling them to development related to business logic, instead of focusing on the "plumbing" of the application. Integrating seamlessly with leading Java application servers and IDEs, JClass ServerViews includes JClass ServerChart and JClass ServerReport. JClass ServerChart uses Servlet, JSP and JSF technologies to produce interactive graphic images from an application server without the need for applets.

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Symbian joins Eclipse Foundation to support free Open Source development tools for Symbian OS

Source: SymbianOne

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Symbian Limited has announced that it has joined the Eclipse Foundation as an Add-In Provider. Symbian is contributing substantial development work, as well as adding its experience and expertise, to the global, community-owned Open Source project.

Symbian engineers have already contributed to the development of the C/C++ Development Tools project ("CDT") which is the core deliverable enabling C/C++ development on the Eclipse platform. Symbian is committed to providing on-going support for this activity to ensure that a high quality, Open Source tools platform exists for Symbian OS tools vendors, enabling them to create many and varied tools that meet the needs of all developer audiences.

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IBM donates code to help Eclipse get organized

Source: Tech News on ZDNet

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IBM said on Wednesday that it has donated code and documentation on how to organize software development projects to the Eclipse open-source foundation.

The material will form the basis for a proposed open-source project, called Project Beacon, which will be voted on within coming months, according to IBM. About 15 organizations, including commercial software companies and consulting firms, said they intend to use the software.

By giving some of its intellectual property in software development to Eclipse, IBM hopes to encourage the use of structured software development processes, or methodologies. It also stands to benefit from the work of Eclipse participants, said Roger Oberg, vice president of marketing at IBM's Rational division.

"When we'd have arguments over who has the best basic process for development, nobody wins," Oberg said. "Rather than controlling the basic process framework, we (at IBM) can leverage what the open-source community does. And other software vendors can do the same around our processes."

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Eclipse Foundation Announces Support for OSGi Service Platform R4 Specification

Source: BusinessWire

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The Eclipse Foundation today announced immediate support of the recently released OSGi Service Platform R4 specification. Eclipse and the OSGi Alliance collaborated extensively on the development of the OSGi Service Platform R4 specification, resulting in Eclipse Equinox and the OSGi Service Platform R4 reference implementation using the same code. The Eclipse Platform project has been based on the OSGi framework for the past two years and the project team has been tracking and actively participating in the specification process.

Eclipse also announced that the Eclipse Equinox Project will be restructured to support and promote an OSGi developer community at Eclipse. The Eclipse Equinox Project delivers a standalone version of the OSGi R4 framework, which had been previously embedded in the Eclipse 3.1 platform release. This will simplify development and deployment of rich client, embedded and server applications and facilitate the implementation of new and innovative OSGi-based services and mechanisms.

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Compuware backs Eclipse, Microsoft

Source: Computerworld

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With Eclipse and Microsoft Windows emerging as the dominant development platforms, Compuware is staking a claim in both camps.

Compuware on Thursday announced its support for the upcoming Visual Studio 2005 platform and is elevating its participation in the Eclipse Foundation to the role of Strategic Developer.

As a gold-level sponsor of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Launch Tour kickoff event in November, Compuware will demonstrate an upcoming release of its TestPartner software, providing functional and regression testing when integrated into Visual Studio 2005 Team System.

Compuware also plans to release a new version of its code-quality tool, DevPartner Studio 8.0, and its fault simulation tool, DevPartner Fault Simulator 1.5, simultaneously with Visual Studio 2005. DevPartner Studio 8.0 will integrate with Visual Studio 2005, while Fault Simulator integrates with DevPartner Studio.

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Macromedia preps Eclipse-based Flash builder

Source: Tech News on ZDNet

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Macromedia later this month will release an early version of a tool that ties Flash authoring to the Eclipse open-source development tool.

Formerly code-named Zorn, Macromedia's Flex Builder 2 will let a programmer use Eclipse, a popular open-source product, to build Flash applications. Until now, the software maker provided only its own development tool.

The change is significant because developers will not have to become familiar with Macromedia-specific tool features, said Kevin Lynch, the chief software architect at Macromedia.

"This is a big change here. Any coder here can write rich Internet applications and target the Flash player. This will hopefully open up Flash to a whole lot more developers," Lynch said. He said there are currently 2 million people doing Flash authoring; the company hopes to enlist a million more.

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Eclipse Web Tools

Source: ONJava.com

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The release of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) Version 0.7 in July 2005 marks a significant milestone in open source web and J2EE development. The WTP project, seeded by contributions from the IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere and ObjectWeb Lomboz, provides a set of well-rounded and tightly integrated tools that simplify the creation of often complex web and J2EE applications. These tools also form the foundation of an integrated web and J2EE tools platform that offers great flexibility to vendors who want to add their own extensions and customization.

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Compuware Becomes Strategic Member of Eclipse

Source: eWeek

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Compuware Corp. Thursday is expected to announce that it has enhanced its membership in the Eclipse Foundation and has become a strategic developer member of the organization.

ompuware is expected to make the announcement at its OJ.X developer conference here Thursday, where Mike Milinkovich, executive director of Eclipse, is scheduled to deliver a keynote.

Compuware is the third Strategic Developer to join Eclipse in less than a month. Last month Iona Systems plc. and Nokia announced their membership in Eclipse at the Strategic Developer level.

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BEA acquires Eclipse tools firm

Source: Builder UK

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WebLogic will be rechristened BEA Workshop for Java when M7's NitroX tools are integrated next year
In a bid to beef up BEA's development tools offering, the company announced on Thursday the acquisition of Eclipse-based tools company M7.

While the financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed, BEA is planning to incorporate M7's NitroX developer tools with BEA's next version of WebLogic. According to BEA executives the new IDE will be dubbed BEA Workshop for Java and is expected to ship between March and June next year.

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NetBeans moving fast, could soon threaten Eclipse's leader position

Source: IndicThreads.com

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NetBeans had some major 5.0 simultaneous releases today. With NetBeans moving fast and adding a lot of functionality of late, it looks likely that it will soon threaten Eclipse's leader position.

NetBeans IDE 5.0 Beta, NetBeans Platform 5.0, NetBeans Mobility Pack 5.0 Beta and NetBeans Profiler Milestone 9 for 5.0 are now available for download. The final NetBeans 5.0 is expected in December 2005.

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Borland's squeeze play

Source: CNET News.com

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What's it like to have open-source products cut the legs from beneath one area of business while facing powerhouses IBM and Microsoft in another? Ask Scott Arnold.

The new CEO of Borland Software is trying to mount a comeback, one of many the company has had to stage over years of ups and downs.

Arnold took over the Scotts Valley, Calif.-based company in July from Dale Fuller, who left after eight years and the announcement of poor second-quarter performance. Arnold faces the challenge of generating revenue growth from Borland's application development suite as well as responding to calls for a company breakup from noisy shareholder Robert Coates.

CNET News.com spoke to Arnold recently about the latest twists on Borland's strategy and the competitive environment.

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Compuware Welcomes Microsoft, HP and Eclipse as Premier Sponsors of 2005 OJ.X Event

Source: PR NewsWire

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Compuware Corporation
(Nasdaq: CPWR) today announced that three leading technology organizations are sponsoring this year's expanded OJ.X ("OJ dot X") conference. Microsoft Corp., Hewlett Packard (HP) and the Eclipse Foundation join OJ.X this year as premier sponsors, supporting the second-annual technology event to be held October 6, 2005, at Compuware's headquarters in downtown Detroit. In addition to sponsorship of this year's event, experts from these organizations will share software development insights, business experiences and future plans with OJ.X attendees.

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Nokia gets more firmly behind Eclipse

Source: Tech News on ZDNet

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Nokia is hoping to attract more developers to its platforms through its involvement in Eclipse, an open-source tools project.

The phone maker has increased its level of participation in the project by becoming a board member and strategic developer. Nokia will take the lead in developing tools for mobile applications based on the Eclipse platform. One of its aims will be to extend the Java-based integrated development environment, or IDE, to have full support for J2ME (Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition).

As part of the move, Nokia will donate some of its own code to Eclipse and dedicate resources to generating new tools for the platform. The company wants to be able to create applications based on two Java specifications--MIDP (Mobile Information Device Profile) and CDC (Connected Device Configuration)--although in the longer term it also intends to use Eclipse for other languages.

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Nokia pushing mobile development at Eclipse

Source: ZDNet UK News

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Nokia has increased its level of involvement in the Eclipse project by becoming a board member and strategic developer. It will take the lead in developing tools for mobile applications based on the Eclipse platform. One if its aims will be to extend the Java-based IDE to have full support for J2ME.

As part of the move, Nokia will donate some of its own code to Eclipse, and dedicate resources to generating new tools for the platform. The company wants to be able to create applications based on the MIDP and CDC standards for Java, although in the longer term it also intends to use Eclipse for other languages.

While many of Nokia's mobile phones are J2ME compatible, others are not powerful enough to run Java applications. In creating Eclipse-based tools to build applications for all its phones, Nokia is increasing the number of potential developers for its platforms. "By working closely with Eclipse, and proposing a new open source mobile development tools project, we will provide the more than two million registered developers in our Forum Nokia programme with complete integrated tool packages optimised for Nokia platforms" said Pertti Korhonen, Nokia's executive vice-president and chief technology officer in a statement.

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Nokia joins open-source Eclipse

Source: Techworld

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Nokia has joined the open-source Eclipse Foundation, and will head a project to build a mobile tools framework based on Java.

Eight full-time engineers from Nokia will be put on Eclipse where they will complete tooling support for J2ME and produce tools to help create mobile Java applications. Nokia said it will donate several components of its existing Java tools technology as well as develop new software for both MIDP (Mobile Information Device Profile) and CDC (Connected Device Configuration) Java applications. Both open source and commercial tools are expected to arrive later this year or early next year.

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Nokia joins Eclipse board

Source: Computer Business Review

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In the second such announcement in a couple weeks, Eclipse has once more expanded its board and started the wheels rolling on an expansion of its mission. Mobile handset maker Nokia is joining Eclipse as board member and strategic developer to lead a proposed project on developing tooling for Java ME (formerly J2ME), which supports mobile devices.

To date, mobile phone handsets have been one of Java's stronger niches, with most major manufacturers already using J2ME or brew, an unofficial Qualcomm framework, for their smart phones.

Although Nokia has not been an official member before this, it has participated in the Eclipse eRCP (Embedded Rich Client Platform) effort that offers plug-ins for developing more sophisticated clients for small footprint devices. Nokia is not the first mobile device or software vendor to join Eclipse. Others already part of the group include Palm, Symbian, and Motorola, along with NEC and Fujitsu, which include mobile products among their diverse product lines.

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I-Logix Joins Eclipse Foundation

Source: SDA India Magazine

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I-Logix has joined the Eclipse Foundation to assist in creating an open, extensible Unified Modeling Language (UML) development platform for software development focused on embedded systems and real-time applications. I-Logix joins the Eclipse Foundation as a full member of the Add-In-Provider and Eclipse membership at large communities.

"We are delighted to have a prominent UML tool developer for embedded real-time applications join the Eclipse Foundation, and we look forward to I-Logix's valuable contributions to improving our comprehensive solutions for software development," said Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation.

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Iona Joins Eclipse for SOA Project

Source: eWeek

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Iona Technologies Monday announced its membership in the Eclipse Foundation as a strategic developer and member of the organization's board.

The Waltham, Mass., company also announced its submission of the top-level Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Tooling Project (STP) within Eclipse, and its submission of its Eclipse-based Artix tooling as a baseline for the project.

Carl Trieloff, director of product management at the company, said the SOA Tooling Project would make the ninth top-level project for the Eclipse organization. The Eclipse Foundation oversees the ongoing development of the Eclipse open-source application development framework. Other Eclipse top-level projects include the Web Tools Platform project, the Test and Performance Tools project, the Business Intelligence Reporting Tools project, and the Data Tools project, among others.

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Iona joins Eclipse, proposes SOA effort

Source: JavaWorld

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Melding the contemporary concepts of service-oriented architecture and open source, Iona Technologies is announcing its participation in the Eclipse Foundation and will propose an Eclipse SOA Tools Platform project.

The company is joining as an Eclipse Strategic Developer and will serve on the open source tools organization's board of directors, which votes on Eclipse policies.

Iona's SOA tools proposal would constitute the ninth top-level project at Eclipse, among other projects such as the Web tools and data tools projects, according to Iona and Eclipse officials. The project is intended to provide a developer tooling platform for SOA-based infrastructure, serving as a foundation from which an extensible toolset for building SOA applications can be developed, according to Iona.

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Eclipse Database Design Plugin: DBVA 2.0 for Eclipse

Source: SYS-CON INDIA

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Visual Paradigm DB Visual Architect for Eclipse (DBVA-EC) is a full-featured Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) plug-in for Eclipse which acts as a bridge between object model, data model and relational database. DBVA-EC provides a modeling environment for object model and data model by class diagram, EJB diagram and entity relationship diagram which truly conform to full UML 2.0 diagrams and notations.

Visual Paradigm DB Visual Architect for Eclipse (DBVA-EC) is a full-featured Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) plug-in for Eclipse which acts as a bridge between object model, data model and relational database. DBVA-EC provides a modeling environment for object model and data model by class diagram, EJB diagram and entity relationship diagram which truly conform to full UML 2.0 diagrams and notations.

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Eclipse Effect Will Bring Open-Source Opportunities Into View

Source: CRN

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Plans for an Eclipse Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) will open up new opportunities for open-source developers and systems integrators, executives said at EclipseWorld.

At the New York conference late last month, Eclipse Foundation Executive Director Mike Milinkovich said the evolution of the Eclipse Java IDE into a full-fledged Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform will spur more commercial activity on the open-source development environment over the next 12 months.

Headed by Serena Software, a leading ALM ISV, and approved by the foundation on July 27, the ALF project is expected to be completed in the fall of 2006.

“In the future, we see Eclipse becoming a complete development platform with full application development life-cycle capabilities. It’s still early, but tool integration is only one of the areas that will grow in importance,” said Milinkovich, noting that ALF will serve as the glue that will enable interoperability between various tools and create a network effect benefiting ISVs, vendors and channel partners.

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Eclipse Makes Moves to Pass Microsoft's Visual Studio

Source: eWeek

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As the battle for supremacy in the integrated development environment space more and more becomes a fight between just two camps, Microsoft Corp. better watch out, said one of the leaders from the competing camp.

Eclipse is poised to overcome the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment as the premier environment for application development, claims Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, which oversees development of the Eclipse open-source development platform.

"Long term, Microsoft is looking at the developer space to lead the way" for the company's overall strategy for winning and retaining customers, he said.

"If we execute, we will, excuse the pun, Eclipse the Microsoft environment," Milinkovich said in an interview last week at the EclipseWorld conference in New York. "Microsoft is worried about the passion of what open-source software means to developers."

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