Eclipse News

New Eclipse-based Code Composer Studio IDE from Texas Instruments enables customers to develop embedded applications for less than $100

Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 11:02 by Christopher567…
As software design and debugging represents the majority of development cost and time for many applications, efficient design tools play a critical role in managing project cost and deadlines. To simplify development while accelerating identification, analysis and resolution, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced the availability of Code Composer Studio v4, a major upgrade to its industry-leading integrated development environment (IDE) based on the Eclipse open source software framework (www.ti.com/ccs4-prprod).

Eclipse Web Services Tools wins a Bossie award for Best of Open Source developer tools.

Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 10:59 by Christopher567…
The Web Services Tools plug-in for Eclipse -- particularly the Web Services Explorer -- makes building Web service requests as easy as filling out a form, and it's invaluable in debugging Web services applications. Point the Explorer at a service's WSDL, and it will enumerate all the services available at that endpoint. Launch a request at a service, and the Explorer displays the response in either raw or structured form.

SlickEdit Inc. Announces Release of SlickEdit Core for Eclipse Galileo

Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 10:57 by Christopher567…
SlickEdit Inc., provider of the most advanced multi-platform code editors available, announces the release of SlickEdit® Core v3.5 for Eclipse™. This latest release of SlickEdit Core supports Eclipse Galileo (version 3.5) and is updated with the latest capabilities from SlickEdit 2009.

Eclipse Insurance Day

Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 08:00 by Christopher567…

Eclipse Insurance Day is being held in Cologne, Germany on September 30, 2009. This full-day event will provide an opportunity for insurance experts, IT managers and software architects to exchange experiences, get an overview of the options Eclipse is offering for insurance applications, and learn how to leverage Eclipse technology and the Eclipse community.

REVIEW: Amazon's AWS Toolkit for Eclipse Makes It Easier to Develop for the Cloud

Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 14:37 by Christopher567…
I’ve done a fair amount of tinkering with cloud programming during the past couple of years. With cloud programming, you can easily deploy a Web application to a cluster of servers that will be distributed and managed with the help of the cloud infrastructure. But one of the hard parts is developing the software on your local development machines and then testing it against the cloud servers.

Amazon recognized this difficulty and has created a plug-in for the Eclipse IDE called AWS (Amazon Web Services) Toolkit for Eclipse.

ThoughtWorks Studios and Tasktop Partner to Improve Agile ALM Success With Eclipse Mylyn Integration for Adaptive ALM(TM)

Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - 15:47 by Christopher567…
ThoughtWorks Studios, a global leader in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM) tools and training, and Tasktop Technologies, creators of the Eclipse(TM) Mylyn ALM integration framework, today announced the ThoughtWorks Adaptive ALM Connector. Set for release with Tasktop Pro in October, the connector will help streamline software development by providing direct access to ThoughtWorks Studios' products from within the Eclipse IDE.

Perforce Software Releases Pure Java API for its Award Winning SCM System

Monday, August 24, 2009 - 10:06 by Christopher567…
Perforce Software announced the release of P4Java, Perforce's pure Java API for accessing Perforce SCM services from within Java applications, servlets, plug-ins, and other Java contexts. P4Java allows developers to tightly integrate Perforce functionality into tools such as CruiseControl, Maven, and Ant, and in environments such as J2EE-based web application and web service frameworks. Perforce SCM versions and manages source code and digital assets for enterprises large and small.

Excelsior JET 6.5 MP1 Adds Supports for Galileo

Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 10:18 by Christopher567…
Excelsior JET, Enterprise Edition enables protection of commercial Eclipse RCP applications against reverse engineering and tampering by compiling them down to native code executables. This fresh update adds support for Eclipse 3.5 Galileo release.

CA taps Eclipse for universal GUI

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 10:19 by Christopher567…
CA has released a new Eclipse-based GUI that it says makes it easier to test and debug applications on the mainframe. The new GUI, released today, maintains all the features from the green screen, and it helps developers reuse existing mainframe application code to speed development time, the company said.

REVIEW: Eclipse 3.5's Many New Features Work Together to Make Developers More Productive

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - 17:39 by Christopher567…
eWEEK Labs finds Eclipse has greatly matured from its early, much slower days. Today, the application development platform can aptly be described as powerful and feature-rich.

The recent 3.5 release of Eclipse, code-named Galileo, brings loads of new features that will help developers become even more productive

A first look at Eclipse 4

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - 10:43 by Christopher567…
As is already indicated by version 0.9, which has just been released, Eclipse 4 will incorporate several familiar web technologies and put them to new uses.

The Eclipse development environment has become a very popular open source project. A flexible software tool kit, Eclipse can integrate the products of several vendors as plug-ins, for example for modelling, development and software tests; for some time now, Eclipse hasn't just been about Java.

Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11gR1 released on Eclipse 3.5 and 3.4

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - 10:43 by Christopher567…
Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE), the #1 free development environment for Oracle WebLogic Server, is now available on new brand new Eclipse 3.5, as well as 3.4. This release introduces new tools for Oracle WebLogic Server, easier WebLogic / EclipseLink configuration, and new WebLogic JAX-WS Web Services tools. This free set of certified Eclipse plug-ins is designed to help develop, deploy, debug, and test applications for Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Database. It installs as a plug-in to your existing Eclipse, or will install Eclipse for you.

The Java GUI Testing Tool Squish Supports New Eclipse "Galileo" 3.5

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - 10:42 by Christopher567…
froglogic GmbH today announced support for automated testing of Java Rich Client Platform (RCP) applications based on the new Eclipse 3.5 release code named Galileo.

Squish for Java is a leading functional GUI and regression testing tool enabling the creation and execution of automated GUI tests for Java SWT/RCP and AWT/Swing applications.

RIM Introduces New BlackBerry Tools for Web Developers

Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 09:53 by Christopher567…
Research In Motion (RIM) today announced new and enhanced tools for developing web applications for BlackBerry® smartphones. The tools include the new BlackBerry® Web Development Plug-in for Eclipse and the BlackBerry® Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio version 1.2. These tools are part of a complete portfolio of BlackBerry® developer tools for web and Java development and a rich set of APIs that enable developers to easily create a wide variety of mobile applications that connect BlackBerry® smartphone users to the information they care about.

Eclipse Insurance Day

Monday, July 27, 2009 - 13:00 by Christopher567…

Eclipse Insurance Day is being held in Cologne, Germany on September 30, 2009. This full-day event will provide an opportunity for insurance experts, IT managers and software architects to exchange experiences, get an overview of the options Eclipse is offering for insurance applications, and learn how to leverage Eclipse technology and the Eclipse community.

GUIdancer 3.1 released

Monday, July 27, 2009 - 10:46 by Christopher567…
Version 3.1 of GUIdancer is now available for download. As well adding support for the testing of GEF (Graphical Editing Framework) components, the new version is available for MAC OSX as a beta, and is compatible with Eclipse 3.5.

Increased platform and application support are not the only areas where the Eclipse-based test tool has been expanded. GUIdancer's efficient keyword-driven approach has also been extended to improve the testing of dynamic tables.