Eclipse News

Oracle's Winston Prakash has announced the first milestone release of Hudson 3.0.0. This is the first release of the continuous integration package since it was placed under the Eclipse Foundation's umbrella. The move to the Eclipse Foundation was made following a contentious split that saw a large part of the Hudson community support Jenkins, a fork of the project managed by Hudson creator, Kohske Kawaguchi.

The nomination deadline for the Eclipse Community Awards is January 27, 2012. Don't forget to nominate the individuals or products that were the best in 2011. Winners will be announce at EclipseCon 2012.

One of the driving motivations for organizing Agile ALM Connect is the belief there is a change occurring in how organizations are building enterprise applications and the overall software development lifecycle. Motivating this change things like agile development, cloud computing, mobile development, and new tools integration which require a new way of thinking about application lifecycle management. This is why we wanted to bring together some of the smartest people in the Agile ALM space to talk about what the future of Agile ALM and how IT organizations should adapt.

Using Eclipse as a universal C++ IDE for Linux and Windows requires navigating a few issues in setup and functionality. Here's how.

Domain Specific Languages (DSL) is a term you hear more and more about as people try to simply a programming environment to a specific purpose. Languages like Scala, Groovy and Eclipse Xtext are making it easier to create DSLs. However, with any technology or term it is always useful to see real examples, more than just Hello World.

IBM in December announced the release of Eclipse EGL Web Developer Tools (EWDT) version 0.7, the first open source version of its EGL development tool. The new tool builds on the free EGL Community Edition software that IBM put out in 2008 and gives IBM i shops another option for developing rich Web applications that run on the IBM i operating system and can access RPG logic.

Virgo 3.0 and Gemini Web 2.0, collectively known as the Maya release, are available for download and download, respectively.

The Eclipse open source software development platform continues to be a hotbed for new projects and support for new environments; this year’s EclipseCon event will showcase support for new and emerging languages.

In the last number of years there has been a boom in the creation of new computer languages. Some might wonder why we need so many new languages but one thing I have found is that software developers can be very passionate about software languages.

On Thursday, December 22, 2011, the Eclipse Foundation will be changing the mechanisms it uses to authenticate user access to its various websites, such as Bugzilla, the Forums, and the Wiki. The purpose of this change is to simplify our account management, reduce duplicate accounts and move towards open standards for user authentication.

We all like to trumpet ourselves when we predict some technology as “the next greatest thing.� It takes a special kind of character, though, to stand up and admit when you’re wrong. Well, that’s what we do today as we mark in these pages the 10th anniversary of the Eclipse project. The acknowledged Java IDE leader as well as the open-source foundation upon which numerous companies have been built, Eclipse remade the Java tools industry with the commercialization of its efforts at its very core.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the technical program and tutorials for the upcoming EclipseCon 2012 conference. The annual Eclipse community conference is being held March 26-29, 2012 at a new location in Reston, Virginia. The conference will be co-located with the new Agile ALM Connect conference and the annual OSGi DevCon.

The speakers and program have been announced for the new Agile ALM Connect conferece, co-located with EclipseCon 2012. Aglle ALM Connect focuses on connecting the tools, agile methods and people across the software development lifecycle.

The latest milestone of Eclipse Orion 0.4 M1, the web-based next-generation IDE currently under development at the Eclipse Foundation, has been announced; it now supports syntax highlighting for C, C++, C#, Clojure, CoffeeScript, Groovy, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Smalltalk and many other languages. This extensive language support is due to the addition of a CodeMirror plugin for Orion. It also supports mixed mode syntax highlighting such as JavaScript and HTML in one document.

This article is for beginners who are interested in understanding the fundamentals of Hudson plug-in development. Hudson is a popular open source continuous integration (CI) tool written purely in Java. Apart from being an open source product, the popularity of Hudson is due to its extensible nature, which uses plug-ins and the plug-in developer ecosystem.

As more and more companies move toward the benefits of in-memory processing for their large data sets, the interest in products that facilitate it is growing rapidly. Oracle Coherence stands tall over many such products in this space due to its simple interface, broad support for popular platforms (e.g. C++, .Net, Hibernate, JPA), and scalability to accommodate terabytes of data with minimal configuration.

It's an annual tradition - Eclipse's huge release train comes rolling by once a year. This June saw a blockbuster package for Java developers with Eclipse Indigo, which the Eclipse Foundation executive director Mike Milinkovich dubbed the biggest release 'in quite a few years' probably through due to the anticipation leading up to Java 7's July release.

As we head into 2012, enterprise developers will need to focus on some major themes, including the emergence of HTML5, “big data� and analytics, and Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). They should also continue to concentrate on Web, mobile and cloud development, and take advantage of advances in languages and integrated development environments (IDEs).

Many of the ECE sessions were recorded and can ve viewed on the FOSSLC site.

Using the lightweight publish/subscribe MQTT protocol, along with Java and Eclipse, Eurotech has devised an approach that makes it easier for their clients to connect Eurotech's (and other companies') boards and devices in a machine-to-machine (M2M) network.