Eclipse News

IBM said Friday that it is shipping Lotus Notes and Domino 8, the first major upgrade to its e-mail and messaging software in two years.

Serena is launching a user-oriented software-as-a-service toolset based on the concept of "enterprise mashups."

Eclipse, in partnership with IDC, is holding its first Community Survey. Take the survey to give us your opinions and earn a chance to win a prize!

CodeGear, a leader in developer tools, today announced JGear(TM), a set of specialized plug-ins for the Eclipse open-source development platform. JGear both augments and accelerates the open-source platform and tools in three key areas -- Java application performance, visual development, and team collaboration -- capabilities not addressed by Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE) solutions today.

Europa featured the simultaneous release of the latest software from 21 Eclipse open-source software projects, ranging from AspectJ Development Tools to Eclipse Communication Framework to Web Tools Platform. Collectively, there have been 700,000 download requests for the base Eclipse SDK and an additional 1.4 million requests for five different Europa packages tuned to specific needs, such as for Java or C/C++ development.

As I told Mike Milkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, my understanding of Eclipse is several years old. I called him today to get an update on Eclipse, and learn what all the fuss is about.

Developers are showing a trend toward favoring the use of Java vs. .NET when it comes to implementing service-oriented architectures (SOAs), according to analysis from Evans Data Corp.

Genuitec, LLC, and eCube Systems, LLC, today announced a partnership surrounding eCube's NXTware Integrated Maintenance Environment (IME) for legacy platforms. This industry-leading tooling will be made available via the MyEclipse Community Essentials program, which will be freely available to all MyEclipse customers.

MOTODEV Studio for Java ME, the first release of Motorola's new integrated tools suite, provides application developers with a powerful set of tools to develop, test, debug, and compile mobile Java applications that run on Motorola handsets, including the stylish Motorola MOTOKRZR K1, the ultra-fast MOTORAZR maxx V6 and the music-optimized MOTOROKR Z6.

The MOTODEV Studio for Java ME tool suite features:

• Seamless integration with the popular Eclipse IDE.
• Easy, all in one place, access to Java ME libraries, sample MIDlets and tutorials, and integrated docu

The Eclipse Process Framework team is proud to announce the release of EPF 1.2.0. Visit the New and Noteworthy page to find out more.

The Eclipse Foundation, in partnership with Eclipse training companies Anyware Technologies, AvantSoft, BREDEX, Industrial TSI, Innoopract and WeigleWilczek, are pleased to announce a series of RCP training classes. Classes will occur between September 17 and October 5 and will take place in Amsterdam, Berlin, Boston, Braunschweig, Brussels, Chicago, Denver, Luxembourg, Paris, San Francisco, San Jose, Stuttgart and Portland.

A few months ago, RoweBots decided to adopt Eclipse as a platform for delivering new tools to our customers, particularly interested in the Europa release. We decided to use Eclipse for all the reasons that you've likely been thinking of, if you are considering doing the same thing:

Wolfram Research announced today the release of Wolfram Workbench 1.1, the latest version of its award-winning integrated development environment (IDE) for Mathematica technologies. Built on Eclipse, Workbench is ideal for all stages of the development process, enabling programmers to build, debug, and deploy state-of-the-art Mathematica applications more efficiently than ever before.

The Eclipse development environment has become the de facto industry standard environment in which to host embedded development tools. Many of the traditional embedded tools vendors who used to sell their own proprietary development tools and environments have embraced Eclipse and ported their products to run within it to take advantage of the sophisticated, feature-rich framework it provides.

The Eclipse Foundation is hosting its Eclipse Summit Europe conference for the European community again this year. The second annual Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE) takes place on October 9-11, 2007 at Forum am Schlosspark in Ludwigsburg, which is in the Stuttgart region of Germany. The goal of the conference is to give the European Eclipse community a platform to collaborate, to promote cooperation among Eclipse projects, and to provide information to attendees about the Eclipse Foundation and its members.

The Open Source Business Resource (OSBR) is a free monthly publication of the Talent First Network. The OSBR is for Canadian business owners, company executives and employees, directors of open source foundations, leaders of open source projects, open source groups, individuals and organizations that contribute to open source projects, academics and students interested in open source, technology transfer professionals, and government employees who promote wealth creation through innovation.

Webtide LLC, the lead developers of the Jetty web server, today announced that it is joining the Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal development platform, as an Add-in member.

Mike Milinkovich heads the Eclipse Foundation, the industry consortium that maintains the open-source Eclipse application development platform. IBM spun Eclipse out as an independent entity in February 2004, and the organization hired Milinkovich as executive director later that year. Milinkovich, who is based in Ottawa, spoke with Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft about his tenure and the Eclipse Foundation's future.

BEA WebLogic Server Tools is a set of free plug-ins for the Eclipse 3.3 "Europa" designed to help develop, deploy and debug applications for BEA WebLogic Server.

Key Features

• Supports versions 10.0, 9.x and 8.1 of BEA WebLogic Server.
• Utilizes WLS-proprietary "split-source" deployment facility to dramatically increase iterative development performance for large applications.
• Includes tools for using WebLogic J2EE Libraries from Eclipse projects.

Conference Overview:

• EclipseWorld is the industry's first independent conference for enterprise software developers, architects and development managers using Eclipse tools and technologies.
• There are more than 70 classes and tutorials to choose from, covering the most popular parts of the Eclipse ecosystem, such as the IDE, the testing tools, the modeling tools and the GUI tools.
• We have more coverage than ever before of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform, one of the hottest application development and deployment technologies today.
• EclipseWorld 2007 also brin