Ember Ships EmberZNet 2.0 ZigBee Software:Wireless Design & Development

Source: WirelessDesignAsia

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

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

Source: SYS-CON NETHERLANDS

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

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

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

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

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

Source: InformIT

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

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

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

Source: ADTmag.com

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

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

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

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

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Creating Web Applications with the Eclipse Web Tools Project

Source: SYS-CON FRANCE

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

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Eclipse CDT Gains Momentum, Sets Priorities: Financial News

Source: Yahoo! Finance

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

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

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Exadel: Navigating The Rocky Shoals of Open Source Development

Source: IT-Analysis.com

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

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Advanced logging tool gets support for .NET 2.0 and Eclipse

Source: PRLeap

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

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

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

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

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Cape Clear ESB 6.5 Provides Eclipse-Based Development Environment

Source: SYS-CON FRANCE

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

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

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

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

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Eclipse.org Data Tools Project DTP Gets Started

Source: SYS-CON EN ESPANOL

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

Motivation for DTP

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

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Sun Debuts Java Studio Enterprise 8 In Shadow of Eclipse

Source: CRN

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Business Objects previews Crystal Eclipse

Source: eChannelLine Canada

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

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Free J2ME Visual IDE based on eclipse

Source: NewsForge

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

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


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Eclipse Foundation director: Open up, Microsoft

Source: TechTarget

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

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

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

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

Source: PRWeb

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

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

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

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

Source: SYS-CON FRANCE

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

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


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Wind River upgrades developer Workbench to Eclipse 3.1

Source: LinuxDevices

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

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

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Business Objects plugs in to Eclipse

Source: ZDNet UK News

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

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

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NASA's JPL Explores Eclipse

Source: ADTmag.com

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

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

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IBM Leads Open-Source Storage Effort

Source: PCWorld

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

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

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

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