Eclipse News

IBM has convinced eight leading RFID device manufacturers to implement the Eclipse open source device model to interface their wares with the IBM Premises Server 6.0. Separately, GS1 EPC Global has certified the IBM WebSphere RFID Information Center version 1.1 as fully compliant with the EPCIS standards for tracking the progress of items as they move through the supply chain.

With open source software (OSS) rapidly growing in popularity in the region, this community summit, the first joint conference between The Apache Software Foundation and the Eclipse Foundation, is expected to be a vibrant event, encouraging a lively exchange of ideas between all those involved in OSS, including developers, vendors and users.

Perhaps the biggest difference is that Notes 8 is built on an Eclipse framework, which makes it easier to extend the user interface. IBM wants users to integrate line of business applications, such as web or Java-based tools.. For instance, in sidebar on the far right hand side, it comes for you to add in tabs for other applications.

The Aperi Project is looking for participants for their survey. Visit the Aperi Homepage for more information

Intalio last week released their open source based BPM System - Intalio|BPMS 5.0, including amongst other things a BPMN Editor and a BPEL server engine. The product is distributed in two editions, Community Edition and Enterprise Edition. The release is a milestone for Intalio in their effort to realise a complete solution for their BPM 2.0 vision. InfoQ took the opportunity to interview Ismael Ghalimi, Intalio CEO, and Arnaud Blandin, EMEA Director, about the new release.

Eclipse Summit Europe features over 60 technical talks and keynotes from Erich Gamma of IBM and Joerg Sievert of SAP.

Combining Notes with OO.o was possible because of an intermediate technology called Eclipse, which began as an internal development platform at IBM in the late 1990s. In 2001, IBM realized that it had built some great technology but had no immediate way to leverage it. Here's how IBM described the situation in its own "Brief History of Eclipse":

Open Source BI projects such as the Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) Project, JasperForge and the Pentaho BI Project, are maturing. A Ventana Research benchmark study shows that companies have strong interest in open source BI software. Expressions of interest include large deployments of more than 1,000 users, suggesting that organizations will be developing, testing and deploying the software for operational BI settings in which front-line workers use information for daily decision-making.

Trolltech® is pleased to announce that it has integrated Qt, its flagship C++ based cross-platform development framework, with the popular Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The C++ integration augments the integration currently available for Qt Jambi – a version of Qt for Java development.

The Eclipse Summit Europe program has over 60 in-depth sessions including consumer stories, demonstrations, Europa project updates, and New & Noteworthy projects.

Canoo today announced a new release of its Java library for Rich Internet Applications (RIA), UltraLightClient (ULC). This new 6.2 version offers addons to test UltraLightClient-based applications more easily.

Squish is a professional, cross-platform GUI and regression testing tool enabling the creation and execution of automated GUI tests for applications based on different GUI technologies. This includes applications based on Java SWT/Eclipse RCP, Java AWT/Swing, Trolltech's Qt, Web/HTML/AJAX and many other UI technologies. Squish sets itself apart from other GUI test tools by closely integrating into the specific GUI technologies which leads to very robust and stable GUI tests.

Wie Unternehmen beim Aufbau einer SOA von Open-Source-Software profitieren können, erklärt Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director der Eclipse Foundation, im Interview mit CW-Redakteur Wolfgang Herrmann.

The CollabNet Merge Client is built on top of Eclipse and Subclipse and has the simple goal of making merge easier. I think it does that and a lot more. It has really turned out great. There are details on the web site, so I will not reiterate them here.

InfoQ sat down with CodeGear Vice President Products and Strategy Michael Swindell and 3rd Rail Lead Joe McGlynn to discuss the release. They noted that CodeGear has seen a rise in interest in Ruby on Rails from commercial and enterprise developers. This leading indicator lead to the development of 3rd Rail. The project was started with each of the development team members immersing themselves as RoR developers. During this process they identified a number of pain points for the beginning RoR developer.

The Eclipse Foundation will make available Tuesday the 1.0 release of the Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) project, featuring tools and frameworks to enhance developer productivity with the PHP scripting language

The Eclipse Foundation is adding the popular web dynamic scripting language PHP to its roster of tooling. This week, Eclipse is announcing general availability of the 1.0 version of the Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT).

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the availability of the 1.0 release of the Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) project. Eclipse PDT is a set of tools and frameworks that enhance the productivity of developers using PHP, a popular, general-purpose dynamic language that is especially suited for development of web applications and web services. This is the first Eclipse project that targets the large PHP developer community.

The Eclipse Training Alliance in collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation is organizing RCP training classes in Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Luxemburg, Paris, Portland (Oregon), San Francisco and Stuttgart. Classes will occur between September 17 and October 5 and are offered at greatly reduced prices.

In a move that revolutionizes software development practices by combining the best of the open source and commercial software domains, QNX Software Systems today announced that it is opening access to the source code of its QNX® Neutrino® realtime operating system (RTOS) under a new hybrid software licensing arrangement.