Announcements

Two new RCP webinars have been scheduled: 1) Building a Great GUI using Eclipse RCP is scheduled for November 21, and 2) Packaging and Deploying Applications based on Eclipse RCP is scheduled for December 14. These webinars are sponsored by Palamida, Instantiations, IBM and Eclipse Foundation.

Today, the Eclipse community celebrates five years as an open source project. Eclipse has grown from its roots as a Java IDE project to become a universal development platform for building and deploying software. There are now 66 open source projects at Eclipse, generating millions of downloads. It is estimated that more than 1,300 Eclipse based products are now available.

WTP 1.5.2 has been released to fix serious bugs and performance problems that were found too late to fix in the previous maintenance release. Those with 1.5.1 already installed need only use UpdateManger to "find updates for currently installed features". All-in-one zip files, SDKs, and minimal runtimes are also available from the download site.

Eclipse is getting ready to celebrate its 5th birthday on November 7th. To celebrate, a number of activities are being organized for the Eclipse community.

The deadline to submit proposals for tutorials at EclipseCon 2007 is November 1, 2006

Reminder for Wednesday, October 25, 2006, Webinar - Mylar: A Task Focused UI for Eclipse, presented by Mik Kersten

Reminder for Wednesday, October 18, 2006: Webinar - Developing C/C++ Applications with the CDT, presented by Doug Schaefer

These 2 projects have recently graduated from the Technology Project to the Tools Project.

We are re-designing the eclipse.org home page. The intention is to make it easier for our user community to find relevant information about the Eclipse projects and also make it easier to download.

Right now we have a beta version of the home page that will be displayed on a random basis to about 25% of the home page visitors. We have also opened a bug to collect feedback. Please let us know what you like and dislike about the home page.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Congratulations to all the winners!

Congratulations to all the winners!

The Eclipse Foundation Announces the general availability of Eclipse Embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP) v1.0

Participate at the Eclipse Summit in Esslingen, October 11-12th, 2006! The Eclipse Summit Europe, presented by the Eclipse Foundation is a unique event here in Central Europe. In addition to a variety of opportunities for networking with other members of the eclipse community, the program features tracks and events targetted for all parts of the community.

Registration deadline for Eclipse Membership Meeting and Marketing Seminar is 5pm EDT, September 18th, 2006.

The Eclipse Foundation is announcing three webinars, Rich Ajax Platform, CDT, and Mylar Webinars will be taking place, starting Sept 27th.

The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal development platform, today announced that it has approved the creation of the Aperi Storage Management Framework Project. The Aperi Project, which was proposed in June 2006, will give customers more choices for deploying open-storage infrastructure software - based on an industry-stand ard framework developed by the open source community.

We would like to get your feedback on Eclipse Plugin Central (EPIC). EPIC is a portal for all things in the Eclipse ecosystem and we are looking to make it better. Please take the time to comple the online survey between now and September 20, 2006. For everyone that completes the survey we will enter you into a draw for a free iPod or one of four Amazon $100 gift certificates.

Eclipse Foundation today announced a recent Evans Data Survey confirms a significant increase in the adoption of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) by Eclipse users. Approximately 22% of the survey respondents indicated they were building rich client applications based on Eclipse RCP; an increase of over 130% based on a previous 2005 study. The survey also indicates strong future growth and interest in Eclipse RCP, with 68% of respondents indicating they will be using it in the next six months.