Announcements

The Eclipse Foundaiton invites you to attend a party at the upcoming Eclipse World conference. A number of the Eclipse project leaders and committers will be on hand to demo their projects and answer your questions. Come early to chat and network with some of the leaders of the Eclipse projects.

Visit our Downloads page to grab the Europa Fall Maintenace Release.

The Aperi Project is looking for participants for their survey. Visit the Aperi Homepage for more information

Eclipse Summit Europe features over 60 technical talks and keynotes from Erich Gamma of IBM and Joerg Sievert of SAP.

The Eclipse Summit Europe program has over 60 in-depth sessions including consumer stories, demonstrations, Europa project updates, and New & Noteworthy projects.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the availability of the 1.0 release of the Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) project. Eclipse PDT is a set of tools and frameworks that enhance the productivity of developers using PHP, a popular, general-purpose dynamic language that is especially suited for development of web applications and web services. This is the first Eclipse project that targets the large PHP developer community.

Register soon! Early bird registration pricing for ESE ends Thursday, September 6, 2007.

The 10% early bird discount for Eclipse RCP training ends this Friday, August 31, 2007. The Eclipse Foundation, in partnership with Eclipse training companies, is holding training sessions that will take place in Amsterdam, Berlin, Boston, Braunschweig, Brussels, Chicago, Copenhagen, Denver, Luxembourg, Paris, San Francisco, San Jose, Stockholm, Stuttgart and Portland.

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!

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.

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.

Eclipse Web Tools Platform 2.0 is available for immediate download and can also be installed as part of Europa. This major update delivers its key goals of improved quality, adopter readiness, harmony with other Eclipse projects, and many new features for end users.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the availability of its annual coordinated project release, this year code named Europa. Europa features 21 Eclipse projects for software developers and is more than double the size of last year's record-setting release.

Die Eclipse Foundation kuendigte heute die Verfuegbarkeit ihres jaehrlichen koordinierten Projekt-Release an, der in diesem Jahr den Codenamen Europa traegt. Europa beinhaltet 21 Eclipse-Projekte fuer Software-Entwickler und ist mehr als doppelt so grob wie der letztjaehrige Rekord-Release.

We are pleased to announce a new conference for the Eclipse community, called OS Summit Asia. This new conference is being organized in collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation and the Apache Software Foundation. The inaugural event will be held Nov. 26-30, 2007 in Hong Kong and is expected to attract open source developers from across Asia.

We want to hear what you think of the Eclipse projects that are being released as part of Europa. In fact, we will give you an Eclipse shirt for writing a Europa review. One lucky winner will also win a pass to EclipseCon 2008 or Eclipse Summit Europe 2007.

Something we would like to accomplish during the Europa release is to make it easier for our user community to download Eclipse. The existing download model requires you to start with the SDK and then start adding projects and features. However, for the millions of Eclipse users the SDK is a bit of overkill, if you are really just are using Eclipse as a Java IDE. Or if you want to use Eclipse as a C/C++ IDE it is not that obvious what to download when you visit our download page.

The Eclipse Foundation is looking for members to speak at Eclipse Summit Europe. Prepared presentations should last approximately 60 minutes, including 5 minutes of questions from the audience at the end. Submitted talks should focus on 1 of 2 categories: 1) Consumer Stories; or 2) New & Noteworthy.

WTP 1.5.4 has been released to fix a number of bugs in the 1.5 release. Those with 1.5.3 or below already installed need only use Update Manager to "find updates for currently installed features". All-in-one zip files, SDKs, and minimal runtimes are also available from the download site as well as from member companies.