JBoss Eclipse IDE Unveiled

Source: SDA India Magazine

Summary:

JBoss Eclipse IDE lets you create J2EE applications in a simple and intuitive manner. It offers extensive and intuitive support for XDoclet, the debugging and monitoring of JBoss servers and the controlling of their life cycles, an easy way to configure the packaging layout of archives (packed or exploded), a simple way to deploy the packaged and/or exploded archive to a JBoss server, several J2EE wizards to ease and simplify J2EE development, Source code editors for JSP, HTML, and XML, and much more.

Oracle and Sun back at loggerheads

Source: The Inquirer

Summary:
WELL THAT didn’t take long. Only a fortnight ago Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Sun’s Scott McNealy were sharing a podium and proclaiming undying mutual respect and a shared technical vision that they said would last 10 years.

A little over 10 days later and the two companies have clashed bitterly over Oracle’s support for Sun’s NetBeans software, used in the development of Java apps.

Clearly there was a bit of a misunderstanding in the detail. McNealy has been trumpeting Oracle’s backing for NetBeans, prompting Ellison to hastily qualify that support. Ellison’s basic gist is: “Well, NetBeans is all very well in its way, but you really want Oracle’s JDeveloper if you’re serious about Java apps for the server.” Plus Oracle is a backer of the Eclipse initiative, a rival to NetBeans.

Eclipse targets enterprise IT decision makers.

Eclipse targets enterprise IT decision makers | Channel Register

Commercial Plug-ins for Eclipse: A Field Report on Avoiding Development Pitfalls

Source: SYS-CON BRASIL

Summary:
As we enter 2006, there’s nothing stopping the spread of Eclipse, the open source development environment. The steadily growing number of free and commercial plug-ins available attests to its success. It’s now time to report on our experiences in developing the visual rules plug-in for Eclipse. Caroline Buck (pictured) shows you how to steer clear of the pitfalls in development.

The core idea of Innovations rule technology consists of two components: the graphical modeling of business logic and the generation of executable program code from the models. At the end of 2002 we decided to redesign our rule system. It was quickly apparent that the existing Java applications for modeling and for code generation should become an Eclipse plug-in or a whole range of Eclipse plug-ins.

Configuring Eclipse for Remote Debugging a WebLogic Java Application

Source: SYS-CON BRASIL

Summary:
A J2EE application deployed in the WebLogic server may be debugged in the Eclipse IDE with the remote debugger provided by Eclipse. Without a debugger the error message has to be obtained from the application server error log to debug the application.

With the remote debugger provided by Eclipse, exception breakpoints may be added to the application file to debug. When an application is run in WebLogic and the application generates an error, the application gets suspended and the Eclipse IDE Debug perspective displays the error. In this tutorial we will debug a WebLogic Application Server application in Eclipse.

To debug an application deployed in the WebLogic Server from Eclipse, start the WebLogic Server in debug mode and configure a remote debugging configuration in Eclipse. Next, connect the Eclipse remote debugger to the WebLogic Server and debug applications running in the server. We will develop an example servlet application and deploy the application in WebLogic. First, the servlet is run without any error and subsequently an error is introduced in the servlet to demonstrate the remote debugging feature in Eclipse.

Why innovative tool makers ride the Eclipse horse first

Source: ZDNet.com

Summary:
Given my recent bet with Sun's Tim Bray, I'm definitely a bit more sensitized to anything that's related to NetBeans or Eclipse. So, when yesterday's announcement by development toolmaker Lattix entered my inbox bearing the title Lattix LDM for Eclipse Now Available, I figured why not give them a call to find out what the tool was for, if the company was supporting NetBeans as well, and why it picked Eclipse first. After all, to really undestand why Eclipse seems to be getting more momentum (at least that was my initial assessment) than NetBeans, it probably makes the most sense to talk to the innovators that are making decisions about which of the two to support in their products

Lattix LDM for Eclipse Now Available

Source: SYS-CON INDIA

Summary:

Lattix, Inc., the provider of innovative software architecture management solutions, today announced the immediate availability of Lattix LDM for Eclipse as part of the new 2.5 version of Lattix LDM. With this new Eclipse plugin, Lattix further extends the developers' capabilities to visualize and maintain the architecture during application development by delivering the power of Lightweight Dependency Models (LDM) to formalize, communicate and control the architecture of Eclipse projects.

Lattix has pioneered an approach that utilizes system interdependencies to create an accurate blueprint of large, mission-critical software systems.

Lattix LDM for Eclipse is the first commercial product to use a dependency structure matrix for a highly compact and scaleable representation of the entire system. With the Lightweight Dependency Model approach, architects and developers can analyze their architecture in detail, edit the structure to create what-if scenarios and then specify design rules to formalize and communicate that architecture to the entire development organization.

Lattix: New member of Eclipse Foundation

Source: Control Engineering

Summary:
Lattix Inc. has just announced that it has joined the Eclipse Foundation—an open-source community chartered to implement an extensible development platform for building software applications. Lattix will serve as an “Add-In Provider” member of the foundation and is committed to deliver its Lightweight Dependency Models (LDM) approach for managing the software architecture of Eclipse projects, says the company. Functions of LDM will be to formalize, communicate, and control the Eclipse architecture.

Eclipse Foundation Kicks Off Seminar Series: “Eclipse In Motion”

Source: Internet Ad Sales

Summary:

The Eclipse Foundation today introduced “Eclipse in Motion,” a four-city seminar series focused on using Eclipse in the enterprise. Designed to offer CIOs, IT managers and developers a practical introduction to Eclipse, the seminar will offer best practices for adopting Eclipse as a strategic integration platform, insights into open source licensing and in-depth case studies of how Eclipse and related technologies are successfully being used in enterprises today.

The one-day seminar is comprised of two tracks: a morning session for executives and an afternoon session for developers. The morning session will feature presentations by Carl Zetie, vice president, application development and infrastructure, Forrester Research; Cliff Schmidt, vice president of Legal Affairs, Apache Foundation; and executives from sponsoring Eclipse member companies Exadel, IBM, Serena and Sybase.

In the afternoon, Eclipse developers will be invited to participate in a code clinic where Eclipse technical experts will be on hand to help developers building Eclipse plug-ins or applications built on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP).

Eclipse rises victorious

Source: Computerworld

Summary:

Although it began as an IBM endeavor in 2001, the Eclipse open source tools platform has come into its own, emerging as both an alternative to Microsoft in the application development space and the de facto standard for developing in Java.

Overtaking Sun Microsystems' rival NetBeans open source platform, Eclipse is expanding the depth of technologies it is pursuing and its membership numbers. Key to attracting wider vendor involvement across the Java space, Eclipse was spun out of IBM in 2004 and is now under the jurisdiction of the not-for-profit Eclipse Foundation, which has gathered the backing of BEA Systems and Borland Software.

"Some of IBM's fiercest competitors are strategic members that sit on our board of directors," said Ian Skerrett, Eclipse director of marketing.

In fact, BEA, not IBM, took the lead on the Eclipse Web Tools Platform, released last month, Skerrett noted.

"You wouldn't see so many vendors flocking to support [Eclipse] if they were still concerned that IBM still dominates Eclipse," said Carl Zetie, analyst at Forrester Research.

Eclipse Foundation Kicks Off Seminar Series: ''Eclipse In Motion''

Source: BusinessWire

Summary:
The Eclipse Foundation today introduced "Eclipse in Motion," a four-city seminar series focused on using Eclipse in the enterprise. Designed to offer CIOs, IT managers and developers a practical introduction to Eclipse, the seminar will offer best practices for adopting Eclipse as a strategic integration platform, insights into open source licensing and in-depth case studies of how Eclipse and related technologies are successfully being used in enterprises today.

The one-day seminar is comprised of two tracks: a morning session for executives and an afternoon session for developers. The morning session will feature presentations by Carl Zetie, vice president, application development and infrastructure, Forrester Research; Cliff Schmidt, vice president of Legal Affairs, Apache Foundation; and executives from sponsoring Eclipse member companies Exadel, IBM, Serena and Sybase.

In the afternoon, Eclipse developers will be invited to participate in a code clinic where Eclipse technical experts will be on hand to help developers building Eclipse plug-ins or applications built on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP).

The Four Hundred--Eclipse Web Tools Platform Moves Forward with New Release

Source: ITJungle

Summary:

Companies with J2EE and Web application aspirations owe more than a passing glimpse to the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) 1.0 release that became generally available in mid-December. For the Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to implementation of a universal development platform, this becomes an important stepping-stone along the way to providing a universal development platform for tools integration. Already WTP has been adopted by the leading J2EE suppliers, including IBM, BEA Systems, Borland, JBoss, and ObjectWeb. This full-version release has solidified the platform API for third-party extension and provides documentation improvements to the previous maintenance release.

"Working together with the diverse member companies in the project and the community has helped immensely to produce these platform APIs, which can help to better enable other commercial vendors to leverage WTP tools for their products," says Tim Wagner, the PMC Lead of the Web Tools Project from BEA Systems.

Lattix Joins Open Source Eclipse Foundation

Source: SYS-CON BELGIUM

Summary:
Lattix Inc. has joined the Eclipse Foundation. As an Add-In Provider member, Lattix is "committed to delivering the power of Lightweight Dependency Models (LDM) to formalize, communicate and control the architecture of Eclipse projects," according to a company statement.

Lattix has developed a new lightweight approach that utilizes system interdependencies to create an accurate blueprint of large, mission-critical software systems, the company says.

Lattix also says that its LDM is the first product to use a dependency structure matrix for a highly compact and scaleable representation of the entire system, providing high level visibility for the entire development organization. Lattix LDM also incorporates Design Rules to allow the formalization and automated enforcement of subsystem interdependencies, including external libraries.

Instantiations Leverages IBM WebSphere and Eclipse Alliances

Source: SYS-CON AUSTRALIA

Summary:
Instantiations leverages its deep proprietary technology base, enterprise software market experience, and world class technical expertise to provide performance enhancement products and services to software professionals who are building, deploying and managing a range of Java systems from stand-alone to fully distributed multi-server e-business applications.

Individually and as a group, the Instantiations team has been responsible for many significant technology firsts and accomplishments: Development of JOVE, the first Optimizing Native Compiler for Java Technology; Development and marketing of the first commercial Smalltalk development environment; Creation of a market dominating line of GUI building tools for Smalltalk; Creation of the first commercial generation scavenging garbage collector; Development of one of the first optimizing compilers for Pascal.

Nokia Joins Eclipse Foundation as Strategic Developer and Board Member

Source: SYS-CON BRASIL

Summary:
Nokia and the Eclipse Foundation today announced that Nokia has joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer and Board member. Nokia will support the work of the Eclipse open source community by contributing software and developers to a proposed new Eclipse project.

As a Strategic Developer in the Eclipse Foundation, Nokia will lead a project to create a framework for mobile Java developer tools, including complete tooling support for J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition). The project will deliver a sustainable mobile tools offering for all developers and companies who wish to create mobile Java applications and build commercial tools for Java. Nokia plans to donate several components of its existing Java development tools technology as well as actively develop new software to introduce tools for the creation of both MIDP (Mobile Information Device Profile) and CDC (Connected Device Configuration) based mobile Java applications. Furthermore, Nokia plans to use the Eclipse tools platform widely in its tools portfolio and will actively contribute to several existing Eclipse projects beyond the scope of Java.

Eclipse touts Web, JEE development in tools release

Source: JavaWorld

Summary:
Bolstering development of Web and enterprise Java Enterprise Edition applications in the open source arena, the Eclipse Foundation has released Version 1.0 of its Eclipse Web Tools Platform.

Version 1.0 features the official APIs for the platform, which had been available in previous incarnations with provisional APIs. "We're declaring ourselves ready as a platform for commercial adoption," said Tim Wagner, a project lead for the Web Tools Platform and senior manager on the BEA Systems Workshop team.

Web Tools Platform 1.0 will serve as precursor to a planned release of several Eclipse technologies simultaneously next June, via a bundle now dubbed "Callisto."

Software Configuration Management: AccuRev Joins Eclipse Foundation

Source: SYS-CON ITALIA

Summary:
“The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to welcome AccuRev as a member and we look forward to AccuRev’s progressive thinking regarding software configuration management to reduce complexity for development teams utilizing Eclipse,” said Mike Milinkovich (pictured), executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, as AccuRev yesterday announced that it has joined the Eclipse Foundation as an Add-In-Provider to further its support and influence on open source standards within the software configuration management (SCM) industry.

AJAX-Based Echo2 Web Framework, EchoStudio2 Eclipse Plug-In Released

Source: SYS-CON NETHERLANDS

Summary:
NextApp, Inc., today announced the availability of the open-source AJAX-based Echo2 Web Framework and commercially-licensed EchoStudio2 Visual Development Tool.

Echo2 unifies AJAX technology with a practical server-side framework to create a next-generation web application platform. For web application developers, Echo2 provides a familiar and powerful component-oriented framework that promotes event-oriented design similar to traditional thick-client user interface toolkits like Java Swing or Eclipse SWT. Echo2 leverages AJAX technology to deliver rich internet applications that create a user experience normally reserved for desktop-based applications.

Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) 1.0 Available for Download

Source: SYS-CON BRASIL

Summary:
The bits for WTP 1.0 were baked last Friday and are cooling off now in preparation for their "official" release on 2005-12-23. However, if you have a pair of oven mitts handy, feel free to download it now and munch this tasty snack over your Holiday break. Unless we discover some late-breaking show-stopper, the bits you'll get are actually RC5 which, as the name suggests, was our fitth attempt to produce a result that was worthy of vendor adoption. During the weeks leading up to RC5 we received a steady stream of bug reports from vendors such as IBM, BEA, JBOSS, Cape Clear, and SAS who are planning to base products on WTP 1.0. The development team addressed the most serious of these bugs, and more fixes will be forthcoming in the mid-February WTP 1.0.1 maintenance release which will follow shortly on the heels of Eclipse 3.1.2.

AccuRev Joins Eclipse Foundation; Continues to Enhance Eclipse Plug-in

Source: BusinessWire
Summary:
AccuRev, Inc. today announced it has joined the Eclipse Foundation as an Add-In-Provider to further its support and influence on open source standards within the software configuration management (SCM) industry. Eclipse is an open source, vendor-independent integration platform that allows developers to use their preferred tools within a common development environment.

AccuRev supports a best-of-breed strategy for application lifecycle development, which is fully consistent with the goals of Eclipse. AccuRev was founded on a vision to improve the obstacles that distributed teams face when using the previous generation of SCM tools. AccuRev's experience with the requirements of distributed, parallel development will position it to make a significant contribution to the Eclipse community.

"AccuRev views ourselves as an open, standards-based provider of productivity tools to engineers, so we have a natural alignment with the Eclipse Foundation," says Lorne Cooper, President, AccuRev, Inc. "The Eclipse vision of an open, comprehensive, development environment for best-of-breed toolsets is one that benefits our mutual customers, and something we want to continue to support."

"The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to welcome AccuRev as a member and we look forward to AccuRev's progressive thinking regarding software configuration management to reduce complexity for development teams utilizing Eclipse," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, Inc. "We also look forward to their participation in the projects and open source development."

Eclipse Web Tools Platform 1.0 Released

Source: LinuxElectrons

Summary:
The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to implementation of a universal development platform, will make the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) 1.0 release generally available this week. Eclipse WTP 1.0 is an extensible, standards-based tool platform for developing J2EE and Web applications. WTP has already been adopted by the leading J2EE suppliers, including BEA, Borland, IBM, JBoss and ObjectWeb. This full version release solidifies the platform API for 3rd party extension, and accompanying major documentation improvements make WTP ready for the next-level of vendor adoption.

“This release really starts to deliver on the vision of the Web Tools Platform,” said Mike Milinkovich, director of the Eclipse Foundation. “Providing a strong platform for companies to leverage when building Web and J2EE tools is a critical component of Eclipse’s strategy for providing a universal development platform for tools integration.”

“The new features of WTP 1.0 are designed to create a more vendor ready platform for Web and J2EE development,” said Tim Wagner, the PMC Lead of the Web Tools Project from BEA Systems. “Working together with the diverse member companies in the project and the community has helped immensely to produce these platform APIs, which can help to better enable other commercial vendors to leverage WTP tools for their products.”