Eclipse Tracker

AS3 Syntax-Coloring Editor for Eclipse

2007-09-11T00:52:00.000-04:00

Source: Daily Habit

Summary:
I use Aptana plugin to write Flash/Flex/AIR in Eclipse. For AIR in particular, Aptana's AIR app launcher is great. However, one key component missing from Aptana is ActionScript 3 (aka AS3) editor. I've been limping along by mapping .as files to Java editor but I just remembered an old Eclipse plugin that used a template to control syntax coloring. So I went looking and found it here: color editor. It was still being maintained. Woot.

It comes with AS2 support but not AS3 so I went searching again and found the mode file for AS3 here: actionscript 3 syntax hilighting for jEdit. The color editor reuses jEdit's syntax coloring mode files. Almost there.

2007-09-06T01:33:00.000-04:00

Source: SDA-India

Summary:
Mark Dexter has put together a video tutorial 'Eclipse and Java for Total Beginners' to help newbies get started with writing Java programs using Eclipse version 3.3. The lessons are designed for you to work side-by-side, pausing and rewinding the video as needed. You don't need any prior experience with Eclipse or Java to learn through the tutorial. There are 16 lessons in all spanning 195 minutes. Each lesson guides you through a step-by-step process creating a simple 'personal lending library' application. All the code for the lessons is typed in 'real time', which allows the demonstration of many Eclipse Java editor features that speed up coding. Test-driven development is used throughout the lessons, using the JUnit testing facility in Eclipse.

Final Call for the Eclipse Community Survey

2007-09-06T01:32:00.000-04:00

Source: Ian Skerrett: Marketing at Eclipse

Summary:

We will be closing down the Eclipse Community Survey on Friday, September 7, so if you haven’t taken the time to complete it, now is the time.

Here are 4 good reasons to do so:

You can help provide feedback to the Eclipse community, so we can improve the services we provide.
The entire Eclipse community will have access to the results of the survey.
You could win a Nokia N95 phone and some Eclipse SWAG.
It will only take 10-15 minutes of your time, so do it now.

Open AT software development kit now 'Eclipse Ready'

2007-09-06T01:24:00.000-04:00

Source: http://dataweek.co.za

Summary:
Wavecom's Open AT Software Suite integrated development environment (IDE) tools are now designed to be 'Eclipse Ready', using tools from the popular open-source development community. Future application developments can be done with Wavecom's Open AT SDK (Software Development Kit) taking advantage of the Eclipse community.

Wavecom says that this access to the Eclipse community will be available to developers free of charge, without licence fees, NRE (non recurring engineering) costs or any additional fees for developer seats.

Visual Studio to Eclipse - get comfortable making a transition

2007-08-29T04:07:00.000-04:00

Source: Michael Dolan Dot Com

Summary:
IBM DeveloperWorks is a goldmine for fabulous information - here’s a new Eclipse starter article for those coming from a Visual Studio .NET IDE environment.

Eclipse Fonts in Linux

2007-08-29T04:02:00.000-04:00

Source: TronProg: Programming and Computers

Summary:
As you might have guessed I'm using Linux most of the times (Windows only seldom), but I noticed that the Eclipse font layout looked better in Windows: actually, the Eclipse font size in Windows permits fitting much more information in a view. This is even more crucial when I'm using my laptop with a resolution of 1280x800.

Of course, I had tried to adjust the font size using the Eclipse Preferences, and actually managed to reduce the size of the editors and view titles (also for dialogs), but not other fonts, such as menu fonts, and, more importantly, the size of tables and trees (e.g., the Java Package Explorer). That's actually due to the fact that under Linux Eclipse relies on Gtk, and thus inherits the preferences of the Gnome Desktop but I'm using KDE :-)

CoWare Expands into Software with Eclipse-Based IDE

2006-04-05T10:46:00.000-04:00

Source: SYS-CON AUSTRALIA

Summary:
CoWare, which specializes in platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services, has announced its new Virtual Platform product family.

CoWare Virtual Platform product family delivers new tools and technologies that support the creation, distribution, and use of virtual hardware platforms for device software development and validation. Virtual hardware platforms are models of the device hardware and the environment they evolve in, and are suitable for the development and validation of an entire device software stack up to the application level, the company says. They also enable electronics companies to engage more effectively with their customers and ecosystem partners. The solution is integrated with and supports the CoWare platform-driven ESL strategy.

Traditional software development and validation solutions have either been non-representative of the device hardware, too slow, available too late, or have not provided enough hardware controllability and observability, CoWare says. Virtual hardware platforms provide fast execution speed, scalability, early availability, unprecedented hardware controllability, observability, determinism, and easy distribution.

LynuxWorks joins Eclipse Foundation: News from LynuxWorks

2006-04-05T10:44:00.000-04:00

Source: ElectronicsTalk.com

Summary:
LynuxWorks will initially support the Eclipse open source community by helping increase an industry focus on Eclipse based embedded development products while evaluating how the company can leverage some of its own products into relevant Eclipse projects. Prior to officially joining the foundation, LynuxWorks was an early adopter of the Eclipse framework.

The company's Eclipse based product called Luminosity is a full-featured Java-based integrated development environment (IDE) and was released in 2005.

Designed to accelerate time to market for embedded system developers, Luminosity supports LynuxWorks comprehensive portfolio of open standards based operating systems including LynxOS 4.x, BlueCat Linux 5.x and LynxOS-178 solutions.

In addition to developing products based on the Eclipse framework, LynuxWorks' executive evangelism for the foundation has been gaining steady momentum.

LynuxWorks Chairman and CEO Dr Inder Singh has publicly supported the Eclipse ideology in various industry articles.

In addition, Robert Day, Vice President of Marketing for LynuxWorks, has been very active as Co-chair of the Eclipse Embedded Workgroup, has published several articles on the Eclipse framework and will also be presenting a paper titled: 'Eclipse: under the hood' at the Embedded Systems Conference in Silicon Valley.

SoftLanding Completes Transition to Eclipse-Based Technology

2006-04-05T10:41:00.000-04:00

Source: ITJungle.com

Summary:
"It's clear that all iSeries development will move from PDM to WDSC," says Steve Gapp, CEO of SoftLanding Systems. That's confidence. And that's not in short supply when Gapp is talking about his company's embrace of WebSphere. SoftLanding has just put the wraps on TurnOver Change Management's transition to Eclipse-based technology. The move has put the company and its change management software in a sweet spot if WDSC becomes the development environment of choice for iSeries shops.

For those unfamiliar with change management software, it is used to establish and automate repeatable processes for software development, including issue tracking, project management, development, and deployment.

"Our early experiences with the Eclipse framework proved to us that this technology brings very tangible benefits to iSeries developers," Gapp says. "Now the entire TurnOver solution can be accessed through a stand-alone client or as a plug-in to any Eclipse-based IDE (integrated development environment). The consistency between the two interfaces makes it easier for TurnOver users to move to WDSC (WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries) or RAD. They're already familiar with the environment."

Eclipse IDE Gains More Members, Plug-ins

2006-04-05T10:39:00.000-04:00

Source: Integration Developers News

Summary:
The Eclipse IDE received a wave of new members, plug-ins and core technology contributions. The latest Eclipse offerings offer support for debugging, business intelligence, build management, prototyping, and even plans to add modeling UIs and forms. IDN provides a shopping list and links to all the free downloads, where available.

The new Eclipse plug-ins and memberships were announced at last month’s EclipseCon2006.

Klocwork Teams up with QNX Softare Systems for IDE Integration

2006-04-05T10:38:00.000-04:00

Source: TMCNET.com

Summary:
Alliance Will Provide Joint Customers with a Single Integrated Embedded Development Environment to Enable Top Quality and Design

Klocwork Inc., the proven leader in automated software solutions that improve software security and quality, today announced an alliance with QNX Software Systems to deliver joint customers with access to Klocwork's K7 static analysis tools from the QNX(R) Momentics(R) development suite. QNX Software Systems provides real-time operating system software, development tools, and services for building secure, reliable, high-performance embedded applications. Through its support for the Eclipse IDE environment, Klocwork K7 is designed to seamlessly integrate into industry-leading Eclipse-based integrated development environments (IDEs), like the QNX Momentics suite, as well as customers' existing software development processes.

The Pillars of Eclipse

2006-03-30T08:08:00.000-05:00

Source: SD Times

Summary:
In the past four years Eclipse has enjoyed considerable success in the software industry. Most famous for its widely used open-source Java IDE, Eclipse also has become an important platform for building software development tools and general purpose applications. In fact, there are now more than 58 different open-source projects at Eclipse, and most of these have little to do with building Java development tools.

We also have a growing ecosystem of vendors and other open-source projects creating Eclipse-based products that span many different technology markets. Therefore, the answers to the questions “What is Eclipse?” and “Where is Eclipse going?” often depend on your point of view.

When we think of Eclipse, we often think of different user communities or technology groupings. Right now, we think of seven different pillars as a metaphor to explain the breadth and wealth of technology brought to developers by the Eclipse community. Over time we expect that these pillars will evolve and change.

Google Considers Joining Eclipse

2006-03-30T08:06:00.000-05:00

Source: eWeek

Summary:
Google is contemplating a move to join the Eclipse Foundation in some capacity.

Greg Stein, an engineering manager in the open-source group at Google and chairman of the Apache Software Foundation, told eWEEK that Google has considered joining Eclipse and has talked with Eclipse's executive director, Mike Milinkovich, about the possibility.

In an interview following his keynote address at the EclipseCon 2006 conference here March 22, Stein said of the search giant's possible move toward Eclipse: "We're thinking about it. We've been talking to Eclipse. I've had some conversations with Mike, and we're either going to join in some capacity or we're going to donate money. But either way we want to help Eclipse."

Should Google join, it would be another major software-as-a-service provider in the Eclipse fold, as Salesforce.com announced its membership in Eclipse earlier this week.

"We've had conversations with Google about them becoming a member," said Milinkovich.

"We would love to have them. There's been discussion of them contributing in some way, but I'm not sure whether they'll join or not."

Microsoft And Eclipse: A Showdown For Ajax Leadership

2006-03-30T08:03:00.000-05:00

Source: InformationWeek

Summary:
Web users are getting spoiled. Once they experience the Ajax-powered speed and interactivity of apps on Google or Flickr, click-and-wait Web interfaces won't cut it. Spurred by growing business interest, Microsoft and backers of Eclipse, the open source programmer's workbench, last week stepped up efforts to create Ajax-friendly tools for building interactive Web applications.

Unlike the mature technical standards for server-side software, tools and technologies for Web development are changing rapidly. Ajax is the symbol of emerging Web development, combining JavaScript and XML so that, instead of requiring round trips to a server each time a user wants new data, a browser's cache pre-fetches the information that might appear next. This leads to much faster interaction, with Google Maps among the star examples.

Eclipse leaders--which include IBM, Intel, Red Hat, and SAP--last week laid out the expansion of the developer's workbench into a platform that can compete with Microsoft in the enterprise. "Over the next three years, Microsoft will be very busy encouraging shops to move off of Win32 APIs and move to [Windows] Vista," said Mike Milinkovich, Eclipse Foundation's executive director, at the EclipseCon conference last week. Instead, he urged companies to consider adopting Eclipse's Rich Client Platform, a set of components that developers can use to put a highly interactive interface on enterprise desktop applications that, written once, can run on Windows, Linux, or Macintosh computers.

Jaluna joins Eclipse with embedded virtualization tools focus

2006-03-30T08:01:00.000-05:00

Source: LinuxDevices.com

Summary:
aluna has joined the Eclipse Foundation, and will demonstrate an Eclipse-based tool suite for its platform virtualization software, at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) next week in San Jose. The company's OSware, Linux Edition, targets embedded systems requiring the full functionality of Linux, alongside pre-ported stacks and/or proprietary real-time kernels.

Jaluna describes OSware as a "high-performance" software virtualization platform for embedded systems." The company says OSware lowers BOM (bill-of-materials) and development costs, while providing enhanced intellectual property preservation. OSware was launched in May of 2004, and has since been used in embedded applications as diverse as carrier-class soft-switches, mobile phones, and set-top boxes (STBs), including DSP-based STBs.

Versions of OSware for Linux that are compatible with Nucleus and VxWorks are available off-the-shelf. Both Nucleus and VxWorks are supported by Eclipse tools.

Mark Milligan, VP of marketing at Jaluna, stated, "Eclipse has become the development platform of choice. In joining the Eclipse Foundation, Jaluna will continue ensuring interoperability with other Eclipse-based software components."

Web Services SOA Company XAware Joins IBM Eclipse and DB2 Viper Early Partner Community

2006-03-30T08:00:00.000-05:00

Source: SYS-CON BELGIUM

Summary:
XAware, Inc., an enterprise software company specializing in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, announced that it is working with IBM on its next generation SOA information management technologies. XAware was recently optimized for Insurance by IBM.

XAware, an IBM partner specializing in complex XML and SOA solutions has recently joined the IBM DB2 Viper early partner program and announced that their applications will be optimized for the next version of DB2 - code-named "Viper."

These optimizations are part of XAware's release of its complex XML and SOA business Service XCelerators (bSX) for insurance and its ability to continue developing leading-edge, insurance-focused SOA enterprise technology. The XAware bSX are comprised of pre-configured, appreciable SOA assets optimized by vertical industry. Building on this, XAware will also be sponsoring a panel, "SOA and the Future of the Collaborative Enterprise", at IBM's PartnerWorld conference in Las Vegas.

Free AppExchange Toolkit for Eclipse

2006-03-30T07:58:00.000-05:00

Source: Irish Developer Network

Summary:
Salesforce.com Joins Eclipse Foundation, Delivers Free AppExchange Toolkit for Eclipse.

The Toolkit Helps Corporate and ISV Developers Create On-Demand Applications for The Business Web Dublin; Wednesday, 22 March 2006: Salesforce.com, the technology and market leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM), has announced it has joined the Eclipse Foundation and released a new AppExchange Toolkit for Eclipse. Available as a free download from the AppExchange Developer Network (http://developer.appexchange.com), the Toolkit provides developers with tools to customize, integrate and build on-demand applications on the AppExchange platform.

ISVs and corporate IT organisation developers alike can use the AppExchange Toolkit for Eclipse to create applications for use in existing Salesforce deployments or for sharing and distribution via the AppExchange.

Built on the popular Eclipse development platform framework, the Toolkit extends Eclipse beyond traditional software development and provides developers with a robust development, debugging and testing environment to create on-demand applications and mashups for the AppExchange. With the Toolkit, developers can directly access and explore the AppExchange data model and objects, extend the AppExchange's native Web presentation capabilities, and build and debug applications and mashups that use the popular AppExchange AJAX toolkit. Because the Toolkit is built on the Eclipse Web Tools Project (WTP), developers get code editing, source control and project management features out of the box, for free.

NetBeans Adds Features, Helps Eclipse with GUI

2006-03-30T07:56:00.000-05:00

Source: OETrends.Com

Summary:
Sun Microsystems continues to push capabilities for its Open Source NetBeans IDE, expanding web services support, and adding support C, C++ and Mac devs. Far from feeling crunched by Eclipse’s continuing progress, NetBeans execs claim Eclipse’ success is just making NetBeans better. In fact, Sun is working with an Eclipse member to optimize Project Matisse for Eclipse.

Geeks speak at Eclipse conference

2006-03-24T05:20:00.000-05:00

Source: SearchWebServices

Summary:
Santa Clara - Doing his best to bust the myth of the introverted geek pounding out code in a darkened room, Ward Cunningham, self-described programmer and infectiously social extrovert, took the stage yesterday at EclipseCon 2006.

He's now director of committer community development for the Eclipse Foundation and perhaps most famous for inventing one of the hottest collaborative tools on the Web, the Wiki. Since Eclipse development is done by teams of programmers working without the project management overseers usually found in private enterprise, all the projects in Eclipse require a commitment to being part of a community working in collaboration.

"What we produce is ideas, which some people define as intellectual property," Cunningham told his programmer audience. "It's done through collaboration based on a community."

In the absence of a manager who can crack the whip over reluctant workers, the Eclipse Way, as it's known, requires one thing that Cunningham put into a single word: Collaboration.

Innoopract Introduces First Eclipse-Based AJAX Platform

2006-03-24T05:19:00.000-05:00

Source: SYS-CON AUSTRALIA

Summary:
Innoopract, a founding member of the Eclipse Foundation and a provider of products and services for Eclipse introduced the Eclipse proposed project "Rich Ajax Platform"(RAP). RAP aims to provide an Eclipse-based development environment with the capabilities to create so-called "Rich Internet Applications." RAP enables programmers to develop desktop applications and web applications following the same programming model, resulting in negligible extra work.

RAP offers an architecture and usage similar to the Rich Client Platform (RCP) and includes a library of components built in the Java programming language and Ajax. Developers can use these components to develop dynamic user interfaces in a fraction of the time compared to traditional methods.

"With RAP we expand Eclipse with the features of Web 2.0," says Jochen Krause, CEO of Innoopract. In the pursuit of this goal, the German-based company will release the core of its W4T technology as open source into the RAP project and will support a supplier-independent development strategy for the RAP technology. "We are pleased to have this new proposal from Innoopract," said Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of Eclipse Foundation. "It is great example of the technical innovation that is occurring in the Eclipse community."

Support grows for Eclipse

2006-03-24T05:18:00.000-05:00

Source: IT Week

Summary:

Support for the Eclipse open-source development tool project is growing from strength to strength following news of increased investment in the platform by IBM.

The moves were announced at the EclipseCon conference in America, and should help IT directors considering Eclipse-based development tools instead of purely commercial alternatives such as Microsoft Visual Studio.

Computing giant IBM announced new Eclipse services and tools, and said it was piloting a new support offering for firms using the Eclipse platform. The support offering is aimed at firms that want developers to use the open-source Eclipse development environment with proprietary Eclipse based tools such as IBM's Rational branded tools.

Eclipse woos Windows Vista developers

2006-03-24T05:16:00.000-05:00

Source: Channel Register

Summary:
The Eclipse Foundation is making a play for Microsoft's ISV partners deciding whether to port their applications to Windows Vista with a cross-platform alternative that expands their market reach.

The open source tools consortium has announced four new application frameworks under the umbrella Rich Client Platform (RCP) project. These are intended to help ISVs build client applications and interfaces using Java and XML.

Mike Milinkovich, Eclipse executive director, yesterday urged the legions of Microsoft ISVs to "look at RCP", warning that applications moved to Vista would not be backwards-compatible with older versions of Windows.

"Microsoft will be very busy trying to convince [ISVs] that now is the time to step away from Win32 to WinFX," he said. "In RCP, you find the framework lets you build Vista applications but ship product on Mac and Linux. If you are going to move off Win32 you should also look at RCP."

He added: "If you move your application to WinFX you are in a position to not be backwards compatible with Win32. "He was speaking at the annual EclipseCon show in Santa Clara, California.

Ajax all the buzz at Eclipse conference

2006-03-24T05:15:00.000-05:00

Source: SearchWebServices

Summary:
Santa Clara - Ajax isn't the most prominent technology on display at EclipseCon 2006 this week but it's there sort of sneaking around the corners of the Santa Clara Convention Center like an unexpected guest at a party.

t may seem odd for a conference drawing upwards of 1,500 mostly Java coders talking mostly about Web service applications to not be focusing more openly on the hottest technology idea of the past year, but the Eclipse Foundation is just getting to know Ajax as it mulls over proposals for bringing it into the framework.

One of those proposals comes from IBM, the Eclipse progenitor and major contributor of expertise and money. When John Kellerman, IBM strategy manager for Eclipse Initiatives, is asked if there is room for Ajax in Eclipse, he says, "The answer is yes, most definitively yes." But having worked with Eclipse since 1999 when it was just a gleam in Big Blue's eye, he explains that the Ajax proposals now being considered are very new, dating back only to the first of this year.

The main IBM proposal is the Ajax Tools Framework, which Kellerman said has drawn interest from other vendors including BEA Systems Inc. and Oracle Corp.

Eclipse: Sun still welcome to join

2006-03-24T05:13:00.000-05:00

Source: Computerworld

Summary:
With enterprise application development largely dividing into two camps -- the Java-derived Eclipse faction on one side, and Microsoft's .Net on the other -- it would seem that Java founder Sun Microsystems Inc. would align itself with the Eclipse Foundation. But Sun remains outside Eclipse, although an open invitation remains to participate in the open-source tools organization.

Sun remains committed to its own NetBeans open-source platform, announcing new initiatives pertaining to it while Eclipse sells out its annual EclipseCon technical conference here this week. Attendance is at 1,400 people, according to Eclipse.

Negotiations to have Sun join Eclipse in 2003 fell apart. Sun at the time said it was not offered "an equitable share in mutual development."

"There's no conversations going on, but they are always welcome to join Eclipse," said Eclipse Foundation Executive Director Mike Milinkovich on Tuesday.

Innoopract Introduces First Eclipse-Based AJAX Platform

2006-03-24T05:12:00.000-05:00

Source: MarketWire.com

Summary:
Today Innoopract, a founding member of the Eclipse Foundation and a leading provider of products and services for Eclipse introduced the Eclipse proposed project "Rich Ajax Platform"(RAP). RAP aims to provide an Eclipse-based development environment with the capabilities to create so-called "Rich Internet Applications." RAP enables programmers to develop desktop applications and web applications following the same programming model, resulting in negligible extra work.

RAP offers an architecture and usage similar to the Rich Client Platform (RCP) and includes a library of components built in the JavaTM programming language and AJAX. Developers can use these components to develop dynamic user interfaces in a fraction of the time compared to traditional methods.

"With RAP we expand Eclipse with the features of Web 2.0," says Jochen Krause, CEO of Innoopract GmbH. In the pursuit of this goal, the German-based company will release the core of its W4T technology as open source into the RAP project and will support a supplier-independent development strategy for the RAP technology.

"We are pleased to have this new proposal from Innoopract," said Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of Eclipse Foundation. "It is great example of the technical innovation that is occurring in the Eclipse community."

Web-based business applications often fall short of the expectations. With web applications, the inclusion of a multitude of different technologies leads to substantially higher development and administration costs when compared to client-server applications. Furthermore, the user experience of web applications is still a big step behind the established standards in desktop applications.

Exadel Submits ''Enterprise Component Framework Project'' to Eclipse Foundation

2006-03-24T05:11:00.000-05:00

Source: TMCNet

Summary:
Exadel, Inc., a leading provider of software, services, and support that enable companies to create mission-critical business applications based on open source and Java(TM) technologies, today announced its proposal to the Eclipse Foundation for an Enterprise Component Framework project, which would create an end-to-end business application development platform based on Eclipse.

Lombardi Software Honored with Eclipse Community Award; TeamWorks(R) Software Awarded Best Commercial Eclipse Applicati

2006-03-24T05:09:00.000-05:00

Source: Chron.com

Summary:
Lombardi Software(R), the leader in Business Process Management (BPM) software for Global 2000 companies, today announced that its TeamWorks(R) BPM platform has been awarded "Best commercial Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) application" in the inaugural Eclipse Community Awards. The Lombardi TeamWorks BPM software was honored at an awards ceremony last night on the opening day of EclipseCon 2006.

IBM mulls support charges for Eclipse developers

2006-03-24T05:07:00.000-05:00

Source: Channel Register

Summary:
IBM, which helped create the open source platform in 2001, is to pilot a support program for developers using the organization's tools plus commercial offerings running on Eclipse, such as IBM's Rational suite.

Details are yet to be finalized, but IBM told The Register that the services offered are likely to differ from IBM's support for Linux and Geronimo in the run-time world.

IBM's decision to offer support for Eclipse reflects the open source environment's growing presence among businesses - 30 per cent of enterprises and 25 per cent or so of small and medium businesses (SMBs) use Eclipse, analyst Evans Data Corp (EDC) estimates.

But it will have an interesting challenge in tackling price objections. This week at EclipseCon in Santa Clara, California, EDC said it had found little appetite for paid support from Eclipse users. Just over 30 per cent expect support to be free while a third said if they would pay anything at all, it must be less than $100.

Eclipse Expands, Urges Shift Away From Windows User Interface

2006-03-24T05:05:00.000-05:00

Source: InformationWeek | EclipseCon 2006

Summary:
The Eclipse Foundation is expanding its core, developer's workbench into a broader platform that competes more directly with Microsoft Windows, at least within the enterprise.

The workbench, which started out integrating dissimilar Java tools inside IBM in the mid-1990s, was brought into the public arena as open source code in 1998 and became a runaway success as a unifying platform for third party tools. The fact that different design, coding, and debugging tools could work together under Eclipse made Java tools more competitive with the tightly integrated Visual Studio tool set from Microsoft.

Now Eclipse is looking to extend its success into new areas, including the user interface previously conceded to Microsoft Windows. It is moving rapidly, for example, to adopt Ajax-type technologies, now widely used in Web applications that interact with users in the way Google Maps does. And it is offering a standard client interface, the Eclipse Rich Client Platform, that can serve as a front end to enterprise applications running on Linux-based desktop computers or Apple Macintoshes, as well as PCs running Windows. While Macintosh and Linux users represent a small fraction of the total users in large corporations, the Eclipse foundation and its members think that picture could eventually change.

"The Rich Client Platform is pretty mature," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, which oversees the open-source projects that add to Eclipse's capabilities.

"Over the next three years, Microsoft will be very busy encouraging shops to move off of Win32 APIs and move to [Windows] Vista. If a company is considering moving off Win32, they should look at Rich Client Platform" as a more robust, long-term answer for their application user interface needs, Milinkovich said Tuesday at an Eclipse Foundation press conference at the EclipseCon 2006 conference in Santa Clara, Calif.

Actuate launches Eclipse-based BI reporting tool

2006-03-24T05:04:00.000-05:00

Source: Application Development Trends

Summary:

Actuate announced the general availability of Actuate BIRT 2.0, a business intelligence and reporting tool, based upon Eclipse BIRT, an open-source reporting project. BIRT 2.0 uses a Web page design metaphor and allows report developers to import styles from existing Web site CSS files, according to the company. The reporting tool was designed to deliver ease-of-use and flexibility to report developers, who are typically not Java coders.

"Many business intelligence tools are too expensive and don't have the flexibility that developers want," says Wayne Eckerson, director of research and services at The Data Warehousing Institute. "There will be a strong market for low-cost, highly flexible BI tools and open-source BI tools are part of that trend."

IBM Continues Its Support for Eclipse

2006-03-24T05:02:00.000-05:00

Source: eWeek

Summary:
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—IBM on March 21 announced that it is starting a support offering for developers using Eclipse as their primary development environment.

Officials said the pilot program is aimed at customers who want their development teams using both open-source Eclipse and commercial Eclipse-based tools such as IBM Rational software. IBM's services and support team will assist developers and their managers working in mixed software development environments. IBM made the announcement at the EclipseCon 2006 conference here.

In 2001, IBM launched Eclipse as an open-source project after contributing more than $40 million in technology. Then at the first EclipseCon in February 2004, Eclipse became an independent entity, with Mike Milinkovich as executive director.

However, IBM continues to wield a great deal of power within the Eclipse organization. For instance, reinforcing its commitment to PHP, IBM and Zend Technologies are contributing code to the newly created PHP IDE subproject of the Eclipse Tools project. IBM and Zend have jointly developed a fully extensible PHP Development Environment framework.

"By maintaining a strong commitment to open source, encouraging innovation and engendering community growth, IBM's strategy of investing in open source has planted seeds that will continue to positively impact growth and pay future dividends," John Kellerman, manager of Eclipse Strategy at IBM, said in a statement.

Eclipse casts a giant shadow in Silicon Valley

2006-03-24T04:58:00.000-05:00

Source: SearchWebServices

Summary:
EclipseCon 2006, which opens today at the Santa Clara Convention Center, has come a long way in two years, both as an open source development platform and as a conference. Now Eclipse attracts a mix as widespread as applications vendors like Salesforce.com and PHP developers.

Two years ago, the first EclipseCon was held at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, Calif., which seemed an odd venue as hardcore Java coders were invited to have breakfast with Goofy and technical sessions had Disney's greatest hits for background music. Last year, EclipseCon 2005 moved up to a hotel in the more sophisticated San Francisco Bay area and attendees were promised that they would not have to listen to "It's a Small World."

The Silicon Valley location for this week's event perhaps reflects the maturity of Eclipse. Having expanded from a hotel-based show to a convention center with three nearby hotels sold out, this year's version features 140 technical presentations in three days.

The sold out show will feature 45 software vendors hocking their wares, many of whom have become Eclipse members since the organization declared it's independence from its IBM parent in 2004.

Salesforce plugs into Eclipse

2006-03-24T04:57:00.000-05:00

Source: Computer Business Review

Summary:
Adding another option for developers, Salesforce.com Inc has joined the Eclipse Foundation as a voting member and releasing a new AppExchange toolkit as a plug-in.

According to Adam Gross, vice president of developer marketing, the goal is to provide developers better tools for building Ajax-style rich web clients or mashups using Salesforce's AppExchange services marketplace.

Under the arrangement, Salesforce becomes an add-in member, meaning that it contributes tooling, gains voting rights, but is not part of the board. Furthermore, the tie-in with Eclipse does not mean that Salesforce.com is becoming a Java shop.

Instead, said Gross, it is to provide access to better tooling, much as its agreement with Microsoft provides that part of Salesforce's customer and developer base access to the Microsoft Office toolkit.

IBM Wants To Eclipse Unix Developers

2006-03-24T04:55:00.000-05:00

Source: WebProNews

Summary:
The command line is a wonderful thing, and a developer skilled in the ways of vi (or emacs if you must) can build great applications; IBM thinks developers can do even better with its Eclipse IDE.

For developers new to the ways of Unix, the command line editor can be at best daunting and at worst an obstacle to accomplishing one's tasks. Freelancer Chris Herborth writing on IBM's DeveloperWorks website thinks the multi-platform Eclipse IDE offers enough usefulness that developers who switch may never type :wq in vi again.

SugarCRM Joins Eclipse Foundation

2006-03-24T04:53:00.000-05:00

Source: TMCNet

Summary:

Open source CRM provider SugarCRM announced it has joined software development community, the Eclipse Foundation as an Add-In-Provider member.

SugarCRM’s participation promotes the foundation’s dedication to improving open source collaboration globally. As an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), Eclipse offers a development platform for both large-scale development projects and smaller open source initiatives.

"SugarCRM is delighted to be an Add-In Provider member of the Eclipse Foundation, as we will help collaboration efforts between both Eclipse and SugarCRM's open source communities," states John Roberts, co-founder, chairman and CEO of SugarCRM in a press release.

Eclipse AJAX project proposed, MySQL joins Eclipse

2006-03-24T04:51:00.000-05:00

Source: InfoWorld Tech Watch | By Paul Krill

Summary:
A project to enable developers to build AJAX-enabled Web applications using Eclipse technology has been proposed by Innoopract, according to Eclipse, which is holding its annual technical conference, EclipseCon 2006, in Santa Clara, Calif. this week.

The Proposal for Rich AJAX Platform (RAP), currently is in the review stage at Eclipse.

"RAP will offer the ease of development of Eclipse, Eclipse extensibility and user experience by reusing Eclipse technology for distributed applications and by encapsulating AJAX technologies into simple-to-use Java components (as SWT encapsulates native widgets)," Eclipse said.

Also, open source database provider MySQL on Monday announced it has joined Eclipse as an Add-in Provider member. MySQL plans to contribute to the Eclipse Data Tools Platform project and collaborate with Zend Technologies and others on the proposed Eclipse PHP IDE project.

Innoopract Proposes New AJAX Project for Eclipse

2006-03-24T04:50:00.000-05:00

Source: eWeek

Summary:
Innoopract Informationssysteme is proposing this week at EclipseCon a new project to the Eclipse Foundation to help developers create AJAX-enabled applications using Eclipse technology and methodology.

The Karlsruhe, Germany, company is proposing the Rich AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Platform, or RAP, Project, an open-source project that aims to enable developers to build rich, AJAX-enabled Web applications by using the Eclipse development model, plug-ins and a Java-only API.

According to the proposal, Innoopract will contribute code from its W4Toolkit to the project to enable user interface development based on a Java component library. The component library offers a mechanism for browser detection and can adapt to the capabilities of browsers by using rendering kits, the proposal said.

Innoopract's contribution will encompass some of the core functionality for a Rich AJAX Platform, including a rich set of UI components with a Java API, event-driven program control, a generic mechanism for updating arbitrary UI elements of a Web UI based on AJAX, a lifecycle handling comparable to the one used in JavaServer Faces, a mechanism for browser detection, and rendering kits that enable applications to adapt to browser capabilities, the proposal said.

Wind River wins large US Army software contract

2006-03-18T03:25:00.000-05:00

Source: LinuxDevices

Summary:
In a deal estimated between $14M and $20M, Wind River's Workbench developer toolsuite has been selected by Boeing for the US Army's "Future Combat System" (FCS) program. Wind River says its tools will enable the program to standardize on a single development environment across multiple sub-projects involving multiple operating systems. The deal also validates the open source "Eclipse" platform that underpins the Workbench tools, Wind River says.
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Wind River's WorkBench is based on Eclipse 3.1. Eclipse is an open source framework for cross-vendor tools integration that was originally donated to the open source community by IBM. It has since been widely adopted by the device development community, with TimeSys, Wind River, MontaVista, LynuxWorks, Sysgo, Enea, and possibly others offering Eclipse-based toolsuites. Additionally, Eclipse tools are offered by chip companies such as Intel and Texas Instruments, and by software companies such as Devicescape, to name a few

Ajax simplifies browsing

2006-03-16T00:56:00.000-05:00

Source: Australian IT

Summary:
A NEW technology is quickly gaining acceptance worldwide as it simplifies internet browsing, making it easier for users to shop, work, plan, correspond and navigate.
Ajax, short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, combines several browser technologies, including JavaScript, CSS, DOM, HTTP and XML, to create user experiences that integrate seamlessly with web pages.
The concept allows browser-based tasks to be completed on desktops rather than having to travel back to a central server to be updated. The open client technology can be incrementally adopted into existing applications and websites as needed.
Users of Ajax-based applications typically do not have to refresh a web browser because information is automatically updated.
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To accelerate the adoption of Ajax, IBM is supporting the Eclipse Ajax Toolkit Framework.
The proposed Eclipse Ajax toolkit framework is the first approach that supports multiple Ajax runtime toolkits.
The runtimes currently supported are from Dojo, an Open Source JavaScript library, OpenRico and Zimbra.

Genuitec adapts NetBeans UI to eclipse

2006-03-13T07:00:00.000-05:00

Source: Computer Business Review

Summary:
One of the earliest members of Eclipse is about to borrow what is arguably the most popular feature of the rival NetBeans.

Genuitec LLC, known for its MyEclipse integrated development environment, is about to demonstrate NetBeans' Matisse user interface on an Eclipse tool at the EclipseCon conference next week.

"Matisse is light years ahead of VI [Eclipse Visual Interface]," said Genuitec president Maher Masri, explaining the move.

Sun Microsystems began NetBeans as an open source framework to develop Java tooling. Shortly thereafter, IBM spun off Eclipse from its Java tooling efforts as an open source project. To date, Eclipse has drawn far more third-party support than NetBeans.

To get an idea of how Genuitec mixed and matched features, it helps to understand that the main differentiation between Eclipse and NetBeans Java tools frameworks is that each supports different sets of visual screen controls. While NetBeans supports Swing, Eclipse is bound to the AWT visual controls.

Genuitec decoupled the Matisse UI from Swing so it could generate AWT. It would accomplish this by using the JSR 198 standard for Java IDE plug-ins, which is awaiting final approval by the Java Community Process.

Approval is a foregone conclusion, as the JSR-198 expert group includes all the major Java household names from Borland to BEA, IBM, Oracle, SAP, and Sun. Even the Apache foundation is involved.

In effect, Matisse won't become part of MyEclipse, which itself is an IDE plug-in to the Eclipse framework. Instead, it would become a separate plug-in to Eclipse, and thereby interoperate with other Eclipse plug-ins (including, obviously, MyEclipse)

New Developer Tools Coming at EclipseCon

2006-03-08T07:14:00.000-05:00

Source: eWeek

Summary:
With the Eclipse open-source integrated development environment platform emerging as a strong contender to be the IDE of choice for developers, vendors are gearing up for the EclipseCon conference March 20-23 in Santa Clara, Calif.

Genuitec, a founding member of the Eclipse Foundation, will be previewing its upcoming release of MyEclipse 5.0 at EclipseCon.

Among the MyEclipse 5.0 features that will be previewed is project Matisse4MyEclipse, an Eclipse integration of the popular Matisse Swing user-interface designer from the Sun NetBeans project, said Maher Masri, president of Genuitec. Matisse4MyEclipse provides simple and intuitive visual layout of UIs within Eclipse, so developers can design UIs without having to understand the complexities of Swing layout managers, widget customization, alignment or spacing, Masri said.

MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench is an Eclipse-based enterprise-class tool suite for Java Enterprise Edition, AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) or Web 2.0 applications, Masri said.

"Incorporation of Matisse exemplifies MyEclipse's leadership in innovative uses of Eclipse technology to tear down universally perceived technology barriers in order to provide MyEclipse users the best-of-breed productivity tools for designing, developing and delivering complex JEE, Web/AJAX, and now Swing desktop applications," Masri said in a statement.

Microsoft, Eclipse lead IDE popularity

2006-03-08T07:13:00.000-05:00

Source: Computer Business Review

Summary:
In a recent survey of 700 developers, respondents may have rated Microsoft Visual Studio as the most popular, but they ranked other integrated development environments higher when it comes to features.

Admittedly, that's not surprising, as Microsoft dominates the .NET IDE market, whereas numerous vendors carve up the Java segment. In Java, Eclipse was by far the top IDE, according to the Evans Data survey.

Other IDEs with large followings included Macromedia (now Adobe) Studio MX, which is used largely for painting web clients; Oracle 9i Developer Suite (which includes the Java-based JDeveloper); and Borland JBuilder.

But the study revealed a few surprises. Top ranked in features were IBM's Rational Application Developer, followed in order by Borland JBuilder and Sun Java Studio. Conversely, the study claims Oracle has neglected its tools and said BEA, whose WebLogic Studio remains an immature product, was ranked bottom.

Metatomix Provides Free Semantic Toolkit for Eclipse Developers Worldwide

2006-03-08T07:11:00.001-05:00

Source: MarketWire

Summary:
Metatomix, Inc., the leader in semantic composite applications, today announced the availability of its Semantic Toolkit free to Eclipse developers worldwide, enabling them to create and modify semantically enabled software solutions quickly, easily and reliably. The toolkit, developed and in current use at Metatomix, enables developers to take full advantage of the most advanced semantic technology standards approved by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

McCabe Releases Significant Upgrade to SCM Solution

2006-03-08T07:11:00.000-05:00

Source: PRWeb

Summary:
McCabe Software Inc. announces the release of McCabe CM 3.2, separating itself from the pack with drag-and-drop change migration, dynamic workspace management, and enhanced Eclipse support that includes seamless refactoring. This latest version of McCabe CM promises to save development teams weeks with every release cycle.

“McCabe CM 3.2 reveals the real power of change based version control, and makes complex release management as easy as drag and drop,” says Barbara Dumas, McCabe’s Director of SCM Solutions.

McCabe CM’s renowned Selective Migration has taken another step forward by providing even faster and easier methods for sharing change across parallel development streams. McCabe CM’s Stream View now allows you to drag a change from one release stream and drop it into another. This functionality allows a user to apply change across different versions in seconds as opposed to the hours or days it would take with other SCM tools.

McCabe’s enhanced Eclipse support features seamless refactoring, which allows the renaming of files without the standard loss of change history and auditability. “Seamless refactoring is an essential capability if an organization has any hope of complying with federal, state or internal software audits like Sarbanes-Oxley,” says Dumas.

IBM Unveils New Open Source Development Software for Web Developers

2006-03-08T07:09:00.000-05:00

Source: IT News Online

Summary:
IBM has introduced enhanced open source development software for Web developers to use popular browser tools to build, test and run new voice applications.

The new speech application programming interface (API) software has been recently developed as part of the Eclipse Foundation's Voice Tools Project to speed the adoption of VoiceXML applications for phones, handheld devices, cars and the Web. VoiceXML is a leading language for developing voice recognition applications. The project ultimately aims to connect Eclipse developers and VoiceXML developers, allowing for common tools and architectures to spur innovation.

Developed as part of the Voice Tools Project by IBM, Tellme and other participating companies, the API creates a common developer framework that can work with any VoiceXML platform. By using this framework, an Eclipse-based tool can interoperate with a compatible VoiceXML platform.

"This project reinforces IBM's commitment to open source technologies that grow the voice industry," said Brent Metz, Voice Tools Project Lead, IBM. "Now every developer, big or small, can build speech applications. The Voice Tools Project is designed to remove the cost barrier of entry so that developers can add speech to a wide variety of applications."

Workbench extends Eclipse capabilities: News from Genuitec

2006-03-01T01:23:00.000-05:00

Source: EletronicsTalk

Summary:
Genuitec has announced availability of the MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 4.1. Backed by world-class support, MyEclipse is the comprehensive J2EE- and web-development tool suite designed for enterprise developers and consultants looking for top value in a commercial-grade integrated development environment (IDE). MyEclipse 4.1 is the first Eclipse-based platform to support AJAX development, offer an integrated image editor and include new web 2.0 development capabilities.

'MyEclipse has significantly changed our workflow, allowing us to easily code, deploy, test and debug in a cycle that went from minutes to seconds', said Wayne Townsend-Merino of the San Diego Supercomputer Centre.

'The value of MyEclipse far exceeds the price, justified by countless hours saved by just the hot-deploy feature alone'.

MyEclipse is based on and significantly extends Eclipse 3.1 to include support for UML, XML, HTML, Struts, JSF, JSPT, JavaScript, CSS, EJB, Tapestry, Hibernate, Spring and database/SQL/ERD technologies.

Sybase launches larger-scale version of RFID stack

2006-02-28T00:30:00.000-05:00

Source: Computer Business Review

Summary:
Sybase Inc today will launch a new version of its RFID Enterprise software stack that is geared toward large-scale RFID deployments.

RFID Enterprise 2.0 includes an Eclipse tooling environment, which enables companies to create composite applications, as well as on-disc encryption to improve security.

Essentially, the latest version has been geared for companies that are moving beyond pilot-stage RFID projects to more in-field operations, said Dan Auker, Sybase's product line manager of its Information Technology Solutions group.

RFID Enterprise 2.0 features three key components, including network and device management. The new device management capabilities have been extended to also include periphery devices, such as secondary light sensors that confirm when an RFID tag has actually been read. Other new features include being able to provision devices on a group level as opposed to individually.

Sybase upgrades RFID software

2006-02-28T00:28:00.000-05:00

Source: InfoWorld Nederland

Summary:

Sybase Inc. on Monday introduced software aimed at helping enterprises analyze and integrate data collected using RFID (radio frequency identification).

Sybase's RFID Enterprise 2.0 offers device and network management capabilities and can also help users integrate RFID data into an existing data architecture. The software supports an Eclipse-based integrated development environment and a core runtime engine for event routing, business activity monitoring and message transformation.

Some companies are beginning to use the tiny RFID chips, embedding them into product packaging, because the chips can store more data than barcodes and because they can be read from several feet away.

Sybase said that it offers the components needed to get the most out of an RFID deployment, including tools for deploying and managing the network, middleware to integrate the RFID data with existing systems, and a database for collecting and analyzing the data.

Some companies in the U.S. are employing RFID because their customers are demanding it. For example, the retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is requiring its largest suppliers to deploy RFID programs if they want to continue doing business with Wal-Mart. While some organizations may be employing RFID because of such mandates, Sybase notes that those companies can leverage the investment by investing in the tools that allow them to analyze and use the data they are already collecting.

Developing Web Services "Eclipse Web Tools Project"

2006-02-28T00:27:00.000-05:00

Source: SYS-CON ITALIA

Summary:

Today's trend is to integrate existing systems in a standard way to make disparate implementations interoperate. Web Services and XML came along with the ability to provide a standard communication interface between these systems, as well as the standard description language - WSDL - the Web Services Description Language that lets those systems define the structure of the services they're providing. Web Services are built using three classic components:

SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol - the XML-based communication protocol for sending data using Web Services.
WSDL - Web Services Description Language - the XML-based language that describes the Web Service that's provided by a particular system and how to access it.
UDDI - Universal Description Discovery Integration - a directory that helps to identify dynamically where particular Web Services are and how to find them, as well as a means of publishing services for those who want to provide them.

GUI Builder for Eclipse 3.1 and UltraLightClient Released

2006-02-27T01:26:00.000-05:00

Source: PRWeb

Summary:
ULC Visual Editor 5.0 for Eclipse 3.1 is now available for download from the Canoo website (http://www.canoo.com/ulc/downloads/visualeditor50.html). This new release is the first version that runs with Eclipse 3.1 and the Eclipse Visual Editor 1.1. Porting to Eclipse 3.1 has greatly improved the overall performance and stability of the tool. Use this editor to visually compose Rich Internet Applications (RIA).

Justsystems Announces xfy Collaboration with IBM Workplace for XML Data Processing

2006-02-24T04:29:00.000-05:00

Source: JapanCorp.net

Summary:
Justsystems, Inc. , a leading document processing software provider, announced today that it will work with IBM Workplace software to run joint research for XML data processing on rich client system.

IBM Workplace Client Technology is an integrated client platform which supports strong collaboration features. It provides a runtime environment and brings high productivity to employees by running office applications such as e-mail, instant messaging, document processing, presentation charts and spreadsheets. Furthermore, many business applications will be prepared by development partners. Workplace Client Technology is based on the Eclipse framework, and many application developers can utilize the Eclipse open source framework for system integration.

IBM's Sabbah touts Rational offerings

2006-02-24T04:28:00.000-05:00

Source: InfoWorld

Summary:
Daniel Sabbah is general manger of IBM Rational Software, within the IBM Software Group. Prior to that, he was vice president of software development, strategy, and architecture for the group. Having begun his IBM career in 1974, Sabbah is experienced in both product development and software research, according to the company. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill met with Sabbah in San Francisco last week to discuss IBM's application lifecycle management efforts and talk about other subjects such as open source.

InfoWorld: Is Borland's selling off its Java and Windows tools simply an indication that it couldn't compete with Microsoft and open source?

Sabbah: Yes. I think that that's an accurate statement. Borland is getting into this space around lifecycle management, or trying to. And they've decided that the value that comes out of individual tools for isolated capabilities, like J2EE or something like that, is not something that they feel they can compete with in light of a lot of the open source efforts around Eclipse.

Eclipse gets new member

2006-02-23T05:31:00.000-05:00

Source: InfoWorld TechWatch | InfoWorld | By Paul Krill

Summary:
Munich, Germany-based MicroDoc has joined the Eclipse Foundation as an Add-in Provider member, according to a posting on the open source tools organization's Web site on Wednesday.

Specializing in object-oriented development technologies, MicroDoc will participate in the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) effort, lending expertise in custom graphics plug-in development, J2EE/mainframe integration and embedded RCP design and development.

"We are delighted to be joining the Eclipse Foundation and to be able to be able to support this strategic organization driving a unifying architectural approach for RCP deployment across both embedded and enterprise sectors," said Hendrik Hoefer, managing director at MicroDoc, in a prepared statement.

Zend & IBM Working On Eclipse PHP IDE

2006-02-21T02:12:00.000-05:00

Source: SDA India Magazine

Summary:
Zend is working, together with IBM, on an Eclipse-based open source PHP development solution. According to the proposal, the PHP IDE project will deliver a PHP Integrated Development Environment framework for the Eclipse platform. This project will encompass the development components necessary to develop PHP-based Web Applications and will facilitate extensibility. It will leverage the existing Web Tools Project in providing developers with PHP capabilities.

Zend and IBM will be making an initial code contribution that will encompass the core functionality for the PHP project including:

High-quality and proven PHP model infrastructure incl. editor, syntax highlighting, code completion, and PHP explorer
PHP perspectives
PHP debugging capabilities

The PHP IDE project will be built using several Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) project components. The WTP provide generic, extensible and standards-based tools for Web-centric application development. It provides editors for various Web centric languages such as: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, WSDL, etc. In addition, WTP provides facilities for configuring and connecting to Web Servers.

AccuRev Endorses Eclipse ALF Project

2006-02-20T01:45:00.000-05:00

Source: EFYTimes.com

Summary:
AccuRev is developing a set of well-defined software configuration management (SCM)-related use cases to expand the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) requirements beyond basic SCM functionality.

Saturday, February 18, 2006: New Delhi: AccuRev has announced its support to Eclipse ALF Project. AccuRev will provide the necessary web services to offer full SCM functionality within Eclipse to align with today's SCM solutions, and is also developing a set of well-defined software configuration management (SCM)-related use cases to expand the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) requirements beyond basic SCM functionality.

Getting Eclipse to output reports in PDF

2006-02-15T01:43:00.000-05:00

Source: Network World

Summary:
It's possible that you installed BIRT 2.0, which was released in January. The print icon in BIRT was disabled just before the new release because of report-parameter handling problems that couldn't be addressed in time for the release.

Even though the print icon is gone, you can still generate PDF copies of the reports for printing by building your own report URL, similar to:

http://myserver:8080/birt-viewer/run?__report= somereport.rptdesign&__format= pdf

The best resource for good information on working with BIRT is the BIRT newsgroup. There have been several discussions lately about generating PDF reports using BIRT 2.0.

Oracle looks to take on Eclipse

2006-02-15T01:39:00.000-05:00

Source: Techworld.com

Summary:

Oracle has just released a free JDeveloper Java development tool, in an attempt to compete with the open source community Eclipse.

The company also is shipping Application Server 10g Release 3, an upgrade to its application server, bundled with a rules engine and an ESB (enterprise service bus).

With the new version of JDeveloper, the company is vying with the Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEs for the hearts of developers, said Ted Farrell, Oracle chief architect and vice president.

JDeveloper boasts enhanced features such as a visual page flow support and a BPEL designer, Farrell said. Oracle, which is a member of the Eclipse Foundation, hopes to leverage the free developer tool to promote its commercial offerings.

JDeveloper has an advantage over the Eclipse IDE in building of web applications, said one Eclipse user.

"Eclipse is very good [for coding] our base application, but when you want to do Web applications, you use some kind of plug-in," said Eric Marcoux, a technical architect at Fujitsu Consulting. The plug-ins do not offer ideal integration, according to Marcoux.

Oracle cites Eclipse as competitor with new dev tool

2006-02-13T01:47:00.000-05:00

Source: TMC.net

Summary:
Oracle, with the newly shipping version of its free JDeveloper Java development tool, is looking to compete with the Eclipse open source juggernaut. The company also is shipping an upgrade to its application server, bundled with a rules engine and an ESB (enterprise service bus).

Available are the standard version of Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3 and Oracle JDeveloper 10g Release 3. They are being positioned as components of the Oracle Fusion middleware platform, which is billed as the company's SOA platform.

With the new version of JDeveloper, the company is vying with the Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEs for the hearts of developers, said Ted Farrell, Oracle chief architect and vice president.

The Value of Eclipse for the Open Source Community

2006-02-13T01:45:00.000-05:00

Source: B-EYE-Network

Summary:
Twenty years ago, virtually all companies selling networking products sold products based on proprietary protocols. These vendors were hoping to dominate the networking market by locking out other vendors who did not support their protocols.

Among these vendors were then-LAN software giant Novell and Microsoft. What none foresaw was the emergence of a vendor-neutral standards body, the Internet Engineering Task Force. The IETF was developing a set of protocols that would supplant the current protocols of these vendors, as well as their dreams of network domination.

Today, another open community is devoted to developing a vendor-neutral and open platform, this time for application development. Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing a vendor-neutral open development platform and application frameworks for building software.

The potential for Eclipse-based projects is huge for numerous reasons, particularly for the business intelligence community. Eclipse itself also has huge potential. It is a significant project of projects, funded and supported by many of the biggest names in business intelligence and business software. The most obvious and prominent Eclipse project related to business intelligence is the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project.

Eclipse (SWT) in Mac OS X: Why Carbon Instead of Cocoa

2006-02-08T04:39:00.000-05:00

Source: SDA India Magazine

Summary:
A few reasons exist as to why SWT on Mac is built on Carbon instead of Cocoa. Cocoa it seems looks like a SWT peer and it would be difficult to port SWT to it, because of event loop issues and other random problems that arise during porting.

Cocoa is easier to work with on Mac, but it does try to do things in different ways than Carbon. Even though Cocoa applications have good features, it would take quite an effort to convert them to carbon, as the widget hierarchy is completely different and wouldn't necessarily fit in with how SWT works. Secondly, most UI development under Cocoa is done under Interface Builder rather than programmatically. Carbon could have had a better .app launcher under Mac OS X, as it launches a separate VM, but this is more of an eclipse-imposed restriction.

The Carbon environment runs all Mac OS 8 and OS 9 applications whose code has been optimized for Mac OS X. The Carbon environment features a set of programming interfaces derived from earlier versions of the Mac OS. By converting their code to use the Carbon application programming interfaces (APIs), developers ensure that their products take advantage of protected memory and preemptive multitasking.

Eclipse: It's all about community

2006-02-07T01:09:00.000-05:00

Source: InfoWorld TechWatch

Summary:

The Eclipse Foundation will defer to the developer community to determine what paths it should take with its open source tools, an Eclipse official said at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference on Monday afternoon.

Eclipse is seeking community feedback on what to include in the 3.2 version of the Eclipse platform, due in June, said Donald Smith, director of ecosystems development at Eclipse.

"The community is deciding what's cool," Smith said.

Blogging has made it really easy to participate in Eclipse, which also looks to Bugzilla to help refine its offerings. Anyone can submit a bug, he said.

"We want anybody, even competitors, to come and look and see what's going on," Smith said.

To build community, Eclipse has made a decision not to trademark the Eclipse brand. This has resulted in the Eclipse name and logo showing up in unrelated ventures in areas such as real estate and a courier service, Smith said.

Wanna Have IBM Training? Visit LinuxAsia 2006

2006-02-06T02:28:00.000-05:00

Source: EFYTimes.com

Summary:
They say 'if you want to learn what brotherhood and freedom are all about, join open source community and you will know true definition of community and freedom'. This year, LinuxAsia 2006 will witness a gathering of thousands of open source supporters from all over the globe. And, who said that about freedom and community? Be there, and you will find yourself repeating the same.

This year, one of the major features of LinuxAsia -- of course, among many other mega events -- is IBM LinuxFest. The IBM LinuxFest workshop has been designed to teach you in a very simple way how to install and configure: Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SuSE Linux) in your environment; IBM DB2 database server and WebSphere Application Server.

Besides, you will also have `Hands-on with Eclipse & Derby'. In this hands-on, you will learn about open source Eclipse platform for application development, open source database Apache Derby and application development with open source tools and open standards-based technologies.

Eclipse can be a platform for application development at zero cost with the help of open source tools and based on open standard technologies. This workshop will introduce you to Eclipse platform and application development with the help of tools like Apache Derby (open source database, small footprint, zero administration), JUnit (unit testing), CVS (version control), Ant (build) and Apache tomcat (Web server) based on Java standards.

Adobe Releases Flex 2.0 Beta Products to the Developer Community

2006-02-06T02:26:00.000-05:00

Source: EMediaLive.com

Summary:
Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced the public beta of Adobe Flex 2.0 product line and Adobe Flash Player 8.5, the leading application development solution for delivering rich Internet applications. Developers everywhere now will be able to build next generation Web experiences that help organizations engage users more effectively, increase productivity, and deliver better business results.

The Flex 2.0 product line provides developers with a powerful and extensible application framework, intuitive programming model, standards-based data integration, and a powerful Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE) for application development and UI design. With an extensive component library, advanced data integration, and support for standard back-end server infrastructures, Flex 2.0 enables developers to build virtually any type of rich Internet application, from simple interactive sites, to rich data dashboards and portals, to data intensive enterprise applications.

Modeling Web Services Choreography with New Eclipse Tool

2006-02-06T02:25:00.000-05:00

Source: SYS-CON ITALIA

Summary:
Choreography is the dark continent of Web services: few onlookers have traveled there, and many question whether there are any riches to be brought home from the trip. In the first place, choreographies bear such a striking resemblance to business processes that the novice might think that the two types of artifacts are indistinguishable.

After all, isn't choreography just a way to describe what a business process does (i.e., it choreographs the actions of its participants)? And then there is the dearth of choreography tools; until recently choreography was a topic learned by reading, not by hands-on experimentation. This article takes the trip. It describes how, in the ideal set of design tools, not only are choreographies and processes treated as entirely different artifacts (with different development life cycles), but that special modeling techniques are available to fully accentuate the nuances of choreographies.

Choreography and Process
Contrary to what many Web services and business process people think, it is terminologically incorrect to say that a process choreographs its services. Choreography describes the global protocol that governs how individual processes interact with one another. Each process offers its own services and uses services of partner processes. It is correct to say that a process orchestrates these services, but the view from one process is only the behavior of that process in terms of its partners. Choreography presents the unified global view, depicting all of the processes and their required interactions.

Web Services Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL) is the leading choreography language, and Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is the dominant process orchestration language. Though both XML-based languages feature a similar flow-oriented design style, only BPEL is meant to have an actual run-time platform: BPEL processes run, and WS-CDL choreographies are formal specifications documenting rules to guide interprocess exchange. There are no traffic cops in this laissez faire world, only traffic laws and law-abiding drivers.

IBM Rounds Up Support For 'Standard' Ajax Environment

2006-02-04T03:30:00.000-05:00

Source: InformationWeek

Summary:
Ajax is becoming popular for building interactive Web applications, so much so that a group of vendors is trying to ensure it gets implemented uniformly.

Ajax is shorthand for asynchronous JavaScript and XML, a combination of standard technologies that allows a Web application to interact with a user without constantly downloading HTML pages.

With Ajax, active parts of the page seek more data from an Internet server or validate data entered by a user, without requiring the user to stare at an hourglass symbol as the page goes back to a server. Google Maps is based on Ajax. The map fills out in the direction of the user's cursor movement because Ajax is detecting the movement and downloading more data from the map server, without the user specifically requesting it.

Google had to invest heavily to get Maps to perform consistently across different browser windows. That's why Google and others backed IBM last week when it announced it was donating software that will allow developers to work with Ajax on the Eclipse programmer's workbench. In effect, code developed with Rico, Dojo, or Zimbra, three popular Ajax toolkits, can be imported into Eclipse, run there for review and inspection purposes, debugged, and made ready as part of a larger Web application.

IBM's move is called Open Ajax and it's backed by BEA Systems, Borland Software, Google, Laszlo Systems, Openwave Systems, Oracle, Mozilla, Novell, Red Hat, Yahoo, Zend Technologies, and Zimbra. The "open" nomenclature, often used with open-source code standards, is not an exact fit, since Ajax is already based on existing standards for JavaScript (set by the European standards body, ECMA) and XML.

But as David Temkin, CTO of Laszlo Systems says, "While Ajax is based on standards, the toolkits themselves are implemented differently." What IBM has done is generate a framework or runtime environment for Eclipse that can take the output from recognized toolkits, run it inside Eclipse, and debug it there.

Look out Eclipse, NetBeans 5 is Here

2006-02-04T03:28:00.000-05:00

Source: InternetNews.com

Summary:
In scientific terms an eclipse is defined as an event that blocks the sun. For a number of years, the Eclipse IDE(define)has in some respects "eclipsed" Sun Microsystems' IDE as well; that may no longer necessarily be the case.

The Sun backed NetBeans 5.0 is now publicly available boasting a long list of new features and improvements aimed at firmly placing it at the top of the IDE pile. The new IDE includes new GUI tools, mobility, web services refactoring as well as a new support offering from Sun.

Among the most notable improvements in NetBeans 5.0 is the NetBeans GUI Builder also known as known as Project Matisse. Matisse is a drag and drop IDE GUI that is supposed to simplify layout by automatically suggesting spacing, alignment and other layout concerns. Struts and Java Server Faces support is also improved as is support for CVS version control.

As an added bonus, Sun is offering free support to NetBeans 5.0 users via the Sun Developer Network program which is currently in Beta itself. The freely available open source IDE is also being bundled with the NetBeans Mobility Pack 5 which is targeted specifically at mobile Java ME developers.

Tech firms to promote Ajax in open source community

2006-02-04T03:27:00.000-05:00

Source: Digital Media Asia

Summary:
Some computer industry vendors and internet-based businesses are making it easier for the open source community to form and popularise Ajax. Ajax is a fast-growing open client technology which businesses are incorporating into their external and internal websites to simplify the browsing experience, making it easier for users to shop, work, plan, correspond and navigate online.

Ajax makes it unnecessary to manually refresh one's browser to send or receive information over the web. Instead, information is automatically updated and available on demand, allowing the user to 'drag and drop' or input information and get a response without refreshing the browser, much like one would do on a PC desktop.

BEA Unveils Workshop Studio Providing Industry’s First Extensive Eclipse Tooling for EJB3 Persistence Engines

2006-02-04T03:24:00.000-05:00

Source: noticias.info

Summary:
BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS), a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced the latest release of its award-winning, Eclipse-based BEA Workshop Studio. With the final release of BEA Workshop Studio 3.0, BEA becomes the first in the industry to provide Eclipse Tools for the pre-final Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 (EJB3) persistence interface. EJB3 is an eagerly anticipated specification of the upcoming Java Platform Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE 5) specification. EJB3 is designed to provide developers lightweight container requirements and to dramatically simplify development with new POJO-based persistence APIs for object/relational mappings.

With this latest release, BEA is positioned to meet the demand for early access to EJB3 tools that are powerful and easy to use. BEA is the only vendor providing multiple options for persistence engines that support the EJB3 persistence specification, designed to provide both an open source and commercial option via Hibernate and BEA Kodo, two popular O/R mapping solutions which can provide access to and communicate with relational databases. The open source Spring Integrated Development Environment Project (IDE) is slated to be bundled with BEA Workshop Studio, further bolstering BEA support for the Spring Framework within the WebLogic® platform.

IBM spearheads AJAX tools at Eclipse

2006-02-04T03:22:00.000-05:00

Source: Tech News on ZDNet

Summary:
IBM and several other software companies have proposed an open-source project to simplify development tools for AJAX-style Web development.

Called Open Ajax, the proposed open-source project will be based on IBM-donated code designed to let software developers use the Eclipse development tool to write Web applications using AJAX.

AJAX, which stands for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, is a way of writing applications so that Web pages can be interactive and users don't have to press the refresh button to update data on their screens.

As previously reported, the project has the backing of several software companies, including IBM, Google, BEA Systems, Red Hat, Borland Software, Novell, Oracle, Yahoo, PHP tool maker Zend Technologies, e-mail company Zimbra, and phone-software company Openwave Systems. The Eclipse Foundation, the Mozilla Corporation and the Dojo Foundation also intend to participate in the project.

Adobe to release Flex beta

2006-02-02T01:25:00.000-05:00

Source: Adobe to release Flex beta

Summary:
Adobe is expected on Wednesday to release a beta edition of Flex 2.0 and make licensing changes to encourage broad adoption of the Flash development tool set.

Flex products, originally from Macromedia, are aimed at professional software developers who write Web applications that use the Flash presentation system.

The product line includes an integrated development environment based on the Eclipse software, as well as "frameworks," or prewritten code to speed application development. There is also a server component for corporate applications that tap into back-end systems.

The beta of Flex 2.0 is scheduled to be available for download on Wednesday from the Adobe Labs Web site, along with Adobe Flash Player 8.5. A final version of Flex 2.0 is due in the second quarter this year.

BEA to ship Eclipse-based developer tool

2006-02-02T01:24:00.000-05:00

Source: BEA to ship Eclipse-based developer tool

Summary:
BEA Systems on Wednesday plans to announce availability of BEA Workshop Studio 3.0, which will serve as the promised Eclipse-based version of BEA's developer tool.

"This is actually our Eclipse-based tool, the core of which comes from our acquisition of M7," last September, said Bill Roth, vice president of BEA's Workshop group.

Another highlight of Workshop Studio 3.0 is support for the EJB3 (Enterprise JavaBeans) specification for object persistence.

"The importance of this [product] is it shows the growing importance of the EJB3 persistence standard. We see Java developers clearly embracing EJB3 as their model of building with server objects," Roth said. "This product gives developers a head start on learning a technology that won't final until Sun [Microsystems] finishes the specs some time later this year.

JBoss Eclipse IDE Unveiled

2006-01-31T02:02:00.000-05:00

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

2006-01-30T03:20:00.000-05:00

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.

2006-01-30T03:18:00.000-05:00

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

2006-01-24T01:53:00.000-05:00

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

2006-01-19T07:52:00.000-05:00

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

2006-01-18T00:51:00.000-05:00

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

2006-01-17T02:50:00.000-05:00

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

2006-01-16T02:39:00.000-05:00

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”

2006-01-13T02:17:00.000-05:00

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

2006-01-13T02:15:00.000-05:00

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''

2006-01-06T10:22:00.000-05:00

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

2006-01-06T10:21:00.000-05:00

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

2006-01-06T10:19:00.000-05:00

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

2006-01-06T10:18:00.000-05:00

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

2006-01-06T10:12:00.000-05:00

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

2006-01-06T10:08:00.000-05:00

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

2006-01-06T10:04:00.000-05:00

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

2006-01-06T10:03:00.000-05:00

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

2006-01-03T01:30:00.000-05:00

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

2006-01-03T01:28:00.000-05:00

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

2006-01-02T03:35:00.000-05:00

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.”

Cape Clear primes ESB pipeline with Eclipse tool initiative

2005-12-20T09:46:00.000-05:00

Source: ZDNet.com

Summary:
The virtuous adoption engine that ignites when a tool and runtime complement one other and help to drive market adoption of the "platform" is one of those effects that I always thought deserves a law associated with it, ala Moore's Law or Metcalfe's Law. How about, The Integrated Law of Viral Software Adoption, or perhaps better yet, Gates's Law?

In any event, a latest whirling dervish of the adoption power of tools and infrastructure came last week as Cape Clear set about injecting its Studio Tool functionality into the hugely influential Eclipse Open Source IDE.

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Eclipse Foundation Announces Web Tools Platform 1.0; Eclipse WTP Project Ships Platform API for Independent Extension

2005-12-20T09:44:00.000-05:00

Source: BusinessWire

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 the week of Dec 19th, 2005. 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, executive 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."

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Eclipse Release to Sync Web Development

2005-12-20T09:43:00.000-05:00

Source: InternerNews

Summary:
The Eclipse Foundation wants to help Web application and Java software vendors agree on technology.

The foundation this week will make Web Tools Platform (WTP) 1.0 available for download. Version 1.0 standardizes Web and Java EE (define) development applications and will help vendors build an industry-wide consensus on the technologies used to create Web applications.

The goal of the WTP is to build a platform that allows for a high level of re-use and extensibility so users can go from one vendor to another -- say IBM WebSphere to BEA WebLogic -- without needing to institute widespread changes or add components from one application to the other.

"This release really starts to deliver on the vision of the Web Tools Platform," Mike Milinkovich, Eclipse Foundation director, said in a statement. "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."

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Eclipse touts Web, J2EE development in tools release

2005-12-20T09:41:00.000-05:00

Source: LinuxWorld

Summary:
Bolstering development of Web and enterprise J2EE applications in the open source arena, the Eclipse Foundation is set to release 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."

A top-level project at Eclipse, Eclipse Web Tools Platform features editors for Java and associated technologies. J2EE 1.4 is supported on the platform, which plugs in to the Eclipse open source IDE.

Editors are included for JavaServer Pages, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, and XSD (XML Schema Definition). Wizards are included for generating Enterprise JavaBeans, session beans, and message beans. Code is generated automatically.

Vendors can use Web Tools Platform 1.0 as a base offering on which to add value for commercial purposes. BEA plans to implement the Web Tools Platform in its BEA Workshop development platform and equip it with functionality such as facilities for using for the Apache Beehive programming model and extended support for the BEA WebLogic Server application server.

The Web Services Explorer tool featured in Web Tools Platform 1.0 is a browser-based application allowing for discovery and invocation of Web services from within the platform. "It allows you to, for example, go out to discover a WSDL or Web service that's available on the Web and begin interacting with it directly," Wagner said. An example could be an Amazon Web service geared toward the Amazon product catalog; users would not have to write any code to get to the Web service.

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Visual Paradigm Continues Focus on Visual Studio .NET, Eclipse, and Java

2005-12-17T03:01:00.000-05:00

Source: SYS-CON DEUTSCHLAND

Summary:
Hong Kong-based Visual Paradigm International focuses on being a leading provider of software solutions that enable organizations to develop quality applications faster, better and cheaper. "Visual Paradigm is dedicated to the continuing delivery of software, services, and partnerships to help our customers to accurately transform systems requirement into quality software solutions, with minimum risk and maximum ROI., the company says.

The company says it is "the only proven vendor offering the widest coverage of interoperability software development solutions that are platform-independent," through its support of the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Eclipse, and other major Java-integrated environments.

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Linux gains graphical, eclipse-based testing tool

2005-12-17T02:59:00.000-05:00

Source: LinuxDevices.com

Summary:
Bredex GmbH is shipping a release candidate for a graphical, eclipse-based tool said to simplify the testing of applications written in Java and Swing. The GUIdancer release candidate is available as a 30-day demo for Windows or Unix hosts, and is expected to ship in January, the company says.

According to Bredex, GUIdancer allows users without programming skills to easily create, and maintain tests. Tests are specified using interactive menus, and specification can begin before the AUT (application under test) is available.

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Sun adds Apache embedded database to Java Enterprise System

2005-12-17T02:57:00.000-05:00

Source: Computer Business Review

Summary:
For a change, Sun and IBM are on the same page again with Java. Sun has just announced that it is bundling the Apache Derby embedded database into its Java Enterprise System. It follows Sun's recent announcement to bundle Postgres, another open source database, as the embedded development data store in Solaris

Derby has a fairly long lineage. As one of the first embedded Java databases, it was originally developed by the old Informix back in the dot com era. After IBM acquired Informix, the technology sat in the back room for a while until IBM got around to donating it to the Apache Foundation, under the name Project Derby.

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

2005-12-17T02:54:00.000-05:00

Source: PRNNewsWire

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.

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