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Eclipse Community Survey Results 2009

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 17:00 by EclipseWeb Web
The Eclipse Foundation has released the results of the Eclipse Community Survey 2009. The purpose of the survey is to better understand how the Eclipse community uses Eclipse and open source software and how people participate in and perceive open source software.

Introducing MobiOne: Bypass App Stores, Deploy Across Popular Smart Devices

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 15:59 by EclipseWeb Web
Genuitec, LLC, maker of the market-leading MyEclipse software and a founding and strategic member of the Eclipse Foundation, today announced the initial milestone release (M1) of MobiOne; a new enterprise-class technology that enables development of mobile applications using Web standards.

MyEclipse 7.5 M1: Master Class VisualVM Java Profiler Support and Visual SQL

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 15:58 by EclipseWeb Web
Genuitec has announced the initial milestone release of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 7.5. The new release series delivers extensive speed upgrades, incorporates the world’s leading VisualVM Java Profiler, Remote Websphere Deployment, a Visual SQL Query Builder, ICEfaces 1.8 support and an upgrade to MyEclipse’s Visual Designers.

Eclipse-based Planning Product xProcess Goes Open Source

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 10:40 by EclipseWeb Web
One of the most innovative project management and process improvement solutions to emerge in recent years, xProcess, has today been officially released under open source license. Ivis Technologies, the Colorado-based company that developed the Eclipse-based product, also announced today the formation of a new company, OpenXprocess Ltd to own, maintain and support the product and provide services to the xProcess community.

Eclipse Time in Toulouse

Thursday, May 7, 2009 - 16:02 by EclipseWeb Web

Anyware Technologies and the Eclipse Foundation are pleased to announce Eclipse Time, a 2-day event taking place in Toulouse, France, June 23-24, 2009.

Discover the Eclipse open source platform with business cases presented by experts. Eclipse Time features well-known speakers from the community including Eclipse Foundation members, software editors and companies that use Eclipse-based solutions. The event consists of a conference day followed by a full day of workshops.

Genuitec Taps Mobile Web for Easy iPhone, BlackBerry, Android App Development

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 - 14:37 by EclipseWeb Web
Java development tools maker Genuitec is working on innovative mobile Web development technology that will enable Web developers to build mobile applications for popular platforms, such as the Apple iPhone, without having to learn native development techniques and languages such as Objective-C. The new offering, known as MobiOne, is based on WebKit and Eclipse technology and is easily adopted by Web developers familiar with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

GUIdancer 3.0 for immediate download

Friday, April 24, 2009 - 11:34 by EclipseWeb Web
Bredex GmbH announced today the immediate availability of GUIdancer 3.0, the automated GUI test tool, from their website (www.guidancer.com). GUIdancer has been expanded in two directions to make automated GUI testing easier and more accessible for a wider range of teams. The introduction of model-based testing lets test case designs be generated from UML models, while the new observation mode allows testers to use a running application to create tests.

Celebrate Galileo at an Eclipse DemoCamp

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 11:00 by EclipseWeb Web

To celebrate the Galileo release in June, the Eclipse Foundation is inviting individuals to attend Eclipse DemoCamps around the world. The DemoCamps are informal meetings where fans can present what they’re doing with Eclipse. Events are planned from May 18 to June 26 and locations are listed on the DemoCamp wiki.

One Small Step Towards Reducing License Proliferation

Friday, April 17, 2009 - 12:41 by EclipseWeb Web
License proliferation has been a hot topic amongst the open source community for the past couple of years. I am happy to report that the Eclipse Foundation and IBM have collaborated to do our bit to help by superseding the Common Public License (CPL) with the Eclipse Public License (EPL). This means that the CPL will no longer be considered an active open source license.

Jetty at Eclipse - EclipseCon 2009

Friday, April 17, 2009 - 12:41 by EclipseWeb Web
While at EclipseCon this year, I had the chance to talk with Greg Wilkins and Adam Lieber of Webtide. Just the night before they’d checked code into the Eclipse Foundation repositories to finish up adding Jetty as an Eclipse project. We start out discussing Jetty’s new Eclipse home.

New release of Scala IDE for Eclipse

Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 11:22 by EclipseWeb Web
The Scala IDE for Eclipse is centered around seamless integration with the Eclipse Java tools, providing many of the features Eclipse users have come to expect.

Eclipse: Many Hands, Light Work

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 10:52 by EclipseWeb Web
Michael Milinkovich, executive director of the foundation, says that when joining the group, members have to rethink many of the ways they see technology. The first assumption that needs to be jettisoned: that companies need their own versions of important programs as a way of having an edge on their competitors. "Every bank has a program they use to monitor consumer risk," he says. "But companies need to stop thinking about every line of code as a corporate asset. A great deal of code is exactly the same."

Equinox Update with Jeff McAffer - EclipseCon 2009

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 10:52 by EclipseWeb Web
In this interview from EclipseCon, I talk with multi-RedMonkTV guest Jeff McAffer, one of the leads on the Equinox project. Having spoken with him about Equinox many times before, I start by asking him to give us an update on what’s been going on in Equinox-land of late. In doing so, we speak about how Equinox is related to the OSGi Enterprise and other specifications.

Eclipse Community Survey: Tell us what you are using

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - 11:00 by EclipseWeb Web

The Eclipse Foundation is requesting your participation in a community survey. The intent of the survey is to better understand how individuals use development tools, use open source software and interact with the Eclipse community. The Eclipse Foundation plans to publish the survey results in June 2009.

Google adds Java to App Engine cloud service

Monday, April 13, 2009 - 11:05 by EclipseWeb Web
Early support for Java includes a Java runtime, integration with the Google Web Toolkit 1.6, and a Google Plugin for Eclipse. Developers can program against Java Data Objects or Java Persistence API. Thus far, App Engine has leveraged the Python language.

Riena - A New Adventure In Eclipse

Monday, April 6, 2009 - 10:52 by EclipseWeb Web
The Riena project has just released it's 1.0 version recently. In this article, I'll show you how to get going with Riena by walking you through my own experiences using the project. As well as providing a little background on the project I will show how to create a UI with Riena, and run through an example of remote services.
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