Announcements

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the winners of its annual Eclipse Community Awards, which recognize the top individuals and products in the Eclipse community. Recipients were honored at an awards ceremony yesterday on the opening day of EclipseCon 2008.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced that Sun, the lead for the Java(TM) Persistence API (JPA) 2.0, JSR 317 standard has selected the EclipseLink project as the reference implementation. The Eclipse Persistence Services Project (EclipseLink), led by Oracle, delivers an open source runtime framework supporting key persistence standards. The EclipseLink project provides a rich set of services that address complex mapping, performance and scalability and advanced functionality required for enterprise Java applications.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced a new initiative to develop and promote open source runtime technology based on Equinox, a lightweight OSGi compliant runtime. While Eclipse is well known for its widely used development tools, this initiative establishes a community of Eclipse open source projects focused on runtime technology that provides a more flexible approach to building and deploying software on mobile, desktop and server environments.

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The Eclipse Foundation congratulates the finalists for the 2008 Eclipse Community Awards.

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The Eclipse Foundation today announced the availability of Eclipse Higgins 1.0, a freely downloadable identity framework designed to integrate identity, profile and social relationship information across multiple sites, applications and devices using an extensible set of components.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce a new series of RCP training classes, to be held between May 19 and June 13. In partnership with Eclipse member companies, the RCP training series is to provide in-depth education for developers building Eclipse RCP-based applications.

The Eclipse Foundation and compeople AG today announced that Riena has been successfully established as an open-source project within the Eclipse community. The Riena project will provide a homogeneous platform for business enterprise applications from the user interface to the back-end integration, based entirely on the Eclipse Equinox platform. By doing so, Riena will make it easier and much more comfortable to build multi-tier enterprise client/server applications, using Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform).

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Nominations for the Eclipse Community Awards in the individual category are complete and voting has opened for the nominees. Congratulations to all the worthy candidates! Show your appreciation to the people that have made Eclipse a stronger community by casting your vote.

For those that like to be using the latest and greatest, the Ganymede M4 packages are now available from the Eclipse Packaging Project (EPP) download site.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the support of eleven industry-leading companies as Gold Sponsors for EclipseCon 2008, the annual conference of the Eclipse community.

The deadline for nominations for the Annual Eclipse Community Awards is fast approaching. Visit http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/eclipseawards/awards_nominations.php for more information.

Eclipse and OMG are jointly organising two one-day symposia to promote and build on the partnership between Eclipse's open source software and OMG's open standards - one as part of EclipseCon 2008 in Santa Clara, the other during the OMG Technical Meeting in Ottawa. Each symposium will be organised as a series of discussion sessions on corresponding OMG standards and Eclipse projects. In each case the purpose will be to discuss the alignment between current standard and implemented software, and identify areas where the cooperation could be further improved in future.

The Eclipse Community Awards are an annual event designed to show appreciation to individuals and technologies that make Eclipse a stronger community. There are two categories of awards - individual and technology. The Eclipse Foundation is now accepting nominations for the awards, so show your love and nominate a person or product that has made a difference.

The EclipseCon 2008 technical program has been selected and is now available on the conference web site. Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal to the program committee. The number and quality of submissions received was tremendous so the program committee had a difficult time selecting the sessions, but it has made the final program exceptionally strong.