Eclipse News

Eclipse In-Web Tools Project Backers Maneuvering for a Diverse Community

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 17:07 by Christopher567…
Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, was in the Bay Area last week ahead of this week's EclipseCon Conference to attend the first ever Orion Planning Summit. The event brought together a range of interested parties and companies who gathered in Palo Alto, Calif. last Thursday and Friday to establish the scope and roadmap of Eclipse's nascent Orion project.

Eclipse Community Awards Winners Announced

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 10:28 by Christopher567…
The Eclipse Foundation congratulates the winners of the annual Eclipse Community Awards, which recognize the top individuals, projects and technologies in the ecosystem. Recipients were honored at an awards ceremony March 21 on the opening day of EclipseCon 2011.

Eclipse sings open-web tune: No framework, no problem

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 10:08 by Christopher567…
Project Orion is a browser-based development effort run by the Eclipse Foundation, but it has nothing to do with the Eclipse Framework, a workbench favored by enterprise Java developers for connecting lots of different third party tools into a common and open framework. Orion does not squeeze the Eclipse Framework into the browser, and it doesn't try to plant an IDE in the cloud. It's not even built on the same language as Eclipse. Orion is built on JavaScript while Eclipse is mostly written in Java.

Eclipse Foundation Launches Open Beta of OrionHub

Monday, March 21, 2011 - 09:00 by Christopher567…
The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce that developers may now sign-up for access to a beta version of the OrionHub service, a hosted implementation of Orion. Orion is a new Eclipse initiative to define a platform for building and integrating web development tools. An early release of Orion provides web developers with an editor for JavaScript, HTML and CSS that runs in popular browsers and the ability to easily link with popular web-based tools.

Meet GUI Test Automation Specialists froglogic at EclipseCon 2011

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - 13:37 by Christopher567…
froglogic GmbH today announced that it will exhibit and participate in the Hot New Products Showcase at the EclipseCon 2011 conference in Santa Clara, California from March 21st until March 24th. froglogic's booth will show Squish, their market leading automated GUI testing tool.

Adobe ColdFusion Builder 2 Public Beta Now Available

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 07:45 by Christopher567…
Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the availability of Adobe® ColdFusion® Builder™ 2 software for public beta, enabling ColdFusion developers worldwide to test the new features and functionality that will be made available in the final release of ColdFusion Builder 2. ColdFusion Builder is an Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE) used for rapidly developing ColdFusion applications.

EclipseCon Keynote: What Is Watson?

Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - 12:25 by Christopher567…
The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the IBM Watson project is coming to EclipseCon 2011. 'What is Watson' will be a keynote presentation featuring the technologies that power Watson.

Eclipse Community Award Finalist Announced

Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - 08:20 by Christopher567…
The finalist for the Eclipse Community Awards 2011 have now been announced. Congratulations to all the nominees and finalists. Winners will be announced March 21 at EclipseCon 2011.

Tasktop and SmartBear Partner to Unite Task-focused Development and Peer Code Review for Eclipse

Friday, February 25, 2011 - 10:41 by Christopher567…
Tasktop Technologies, creators of the Eclipse Mylyn project and a leader in Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration and productivity, and SmartBear Software today announced the Eclipse Mylyn Connector for SmartBear CodeCollaborator. Available in Tasktop Enterprise, the new connector brings task-focused interface technology to code reviews managed in CodeCollaborator, making code reviews a regular part of Eclipse-based development activities.

Eclipse Community Showcase at CeBIT

Thursday, February 17, 2011 - 15:17 by Christopher567…
The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce a special Eclipse Pavillion at the upcoming CeBIT trade show which will showcase technology and solutions available from the Eclipse community.

Register for the Eclipse Spring 2011 Training Series

Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 09:50 by Christopher567…

The Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse member companies are pleased to announce the Spring 2011 Training Series. These training classes are an excellent opportunity for software developers and architects to learn more about Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), Eclipse Equinox, OSGi and Modeling technologies.

Nuxeo joins Eclipse to increase ECM open source presence

Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 10:23 by Christopher567…
Cheryl McKinnon, who is chief marketing officer at Nuxeo, says this project could provide companies access to an open source content repository on which they can build custom content applications. "This is a significant step in the evolution of ECM because the core content repository services are openly available to any organization or software vendor needing to build a content rich application--with CMIS support inherently available. ECM can now become pervasively adopted and incorporated anywhere, any time," McKinnon explained.

Announcing the EclipseCon Hot New Product Showcase

Thursday, February 3, 2011 - 16:25 by Christopher567…

This year at EclipseCon, the Hot New Product Showcase will feature new Eclipse-based products that were released in the last 12 months. EclipseCon attendees will have a chance to see these new products in action and then vote for the 'Hot New Product Award'.

ZeroTurnaround joins Eclipse Foundation, releases JRebel for Eclipse

Tuesday, February 1, 2011 - 16:09 by Christopher567…
ZeroTurnaround, creators of java tooling for development and production environments, today announced both that it has become an official member of the Eclipse Foundation, and today’s release of JRebel 3.6 includes support for the Eclipse Marketplace.

Voting is Open for the Eclipse Community Awards

Monday, January 31, 2011 - 15:40 by Christopher567…
Nominations for the Eclipse Community Awards are complete and voting has opened for the individual and project category nominees. Congratulations to all the worthy candidates!