Eclipse News

Mira Mezini, Informatik-Professorin an der TU Darmstadt, wird mit der höchstdotierten EU-Forschungsförderung ausgezeichnet. Der Europäischen Forschungsrat (European Research Council) gewährt Mezini einen "Advanced Grant" in Höhe von 2,3 Millionen Euro, den sie für die Erforschung grundlegend neuer Programmierkonzepte beim Cloud Computing aufwenden will.

Next weeks' DemoCamp will take place in Munich, Germany on Dec. 5.

The design contest is now closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted a design.

Next weeks' DemoCamps include Berlin on Nov. 26, Bucharest on Nov. 28, Kassel and Boston on Nov. 29, and Vienna on Nov. 30.

It's déjà vu all over again, as the Eclipse Foundation released version 1.0 of a new IDE originally created by IBM. But this time, the IDE lives on a server and in your browser. The Orion Project hit version 1.0 on Oct. 29, heralding a new era of browser-based development.

Next weeks' DemoCamps include Bonn on Nov. 19, Dresden on Nov. 20, Toronto, Copenhagen, and Braunschweig on Nov. 21, Poznan on Nov. 22, Budapest and Pecs on Nov. 23, and Jarkata on Nov. 24.

The EclipseCon Call for Papers deadline is today! Submit your proposal now.

Next weeks' DemoCamps include Vancouver, Canada on November 13 and Hamburg, Germany on November 14.

Eclipse Day at the Googleplex was a success! Thank you to Google, the speakers, the attendees and everyone else who contributed!

We have released v3 of Chronon Recording Server and Chronon Time Traveling Debugger. Developers and QA Teams can now experience incredible performance improvements of up to 10X with V3 of the Chronon Recording Server making this the best solution to resolve issues in your development, QA and production environments.

Roll up your sleeves and create an awesome extension to BIRT! At EclipseCon Europe 2012, Actuate announced a new worldwide programming contest for developers. Plenty of suggestions, tutorials and code are listed on the contest site. Deadline is Nov 30th for your chance to win an iPad!

SunGard’s Infinity Process Platform is now available from the Eclipse Stardust project, an open source business process management (BPM) suite designed to help improve the infrastructure behind many of the finance industry’s key operations.

This survey is now closed. Thank you to everyone who contributed!

The Eclipse Community is hosting Demo Camps in cities around the world during November 2012. Sign up now to attend or present at a DemoCamp in your area.

I am very happy to welcome Google as the newest Strategic Member of the Eclipse Foundation. This is important, and exciting news for the Eclipse community. Google will be joining CA Technologies, IBM, Oracle and SAP as the backbone of the Eclipse Foundation’s funding, as each of these companies are providing $250,000 per year for our operations.

Eclipse Orion is a new IDE designed specifically for web development, and one we’ve covered before at JAXenter. It’s a project with lofty goals: “to make the web itself the development environment, instead of trying to bring existing desktop IDE concepts to the browser�. It’s meant not as a browser-based replacement for Eclipse, but as a new project with the Eclipse spirit aimed at web developers.

The third issue of the EclipseCon Europe Newsletter is out! Read it online here.

Sign up now to organize a DemoCamp in your area! For more information, see the November DemoCamp wiki page.

We are happy to announce the next major release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.1.0 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.1.0.

With EclipseCon Europe fast approaching we wanted to have some cool demos to show off Orion that were a little out of the ordinary. Given that Orion can provide a UI to the file system of an underlying installation it seemed a natural fit to get it running on a headless Raspberry Pi.