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Open Invitation to Eclipse BIRT Users for ActuateOne Live 2012

Friday, September 21, 2012 - 11:46 by EclipseWeb Web
Actuate, The BIRT Company™, is hosting one-day events in both San Francisco (Nov 8) and New York City (Nov 14) to provide insights into the future of data visualization, Big Data and business analytics that are available today in ActuateOne. These free events are open to anyone with experience or interest in BIRT.

DevBoost releases build tool BuildBoost

Monday, September 17, 2012 - 14:25 by EclipseWeb Web
DevBoost is happy to announce the release of the open-source build tool BuildBoost for Eclipse, OSGi and Java developers. BuildBoost was originally developed for Eclipse-based tools and is now used to build, integrate and deliver multiple open-source tools such as HEDL, JUnitLoop, JaMoPP and EMFText.

Integrate an external code checker into Eclipse CDT

Wednesday, August 22, 2012 - 22:10 by EclipseWeb Web
Codan is the Eclipse CDT (C/C++ Development Tooling) built-in code analysis framework for C/C++ projects. Codan provides infrastructure to perform static code analysis and comes with ready-to-use problem checkers. With the Eclipse Juno release, Codan was extended to enable developers to automatically execute external code analysis tools.

Architexa Toolsuite is Now Available for Free

Wednesday, August 22, 2012 - 14:45 by EclipseWeb Web
At Architexa we have been working very hard to help developers examine code and its architecture. In expanding this effort, effective immediately, the Architexa tool suite is available for free.

Spring Tool Suite (STS) and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.0.0 releases

Friday, August 17, 2012 - 15:20 by EclipseWeb Web
We are proud to announce that the newest major release of our Eclipse-based developer tooling is now available. This is a major release not only in terms new features but because of other serious changes like componentization, open-sourcing and the fact that for the first time we are making multiple distributions available, each tailored for a different kind of developer.

New M2M portable project arrives at Eclipse - welcome Mihini

Tuesday, July 24, 2012 - 11:41 by EclipseWeb Web
Nobody can really accuse the new Machine-To-Machine (M2M) Industry Working Group of not being productive. Yet another Eclipse project proposal has emerged, hoping to sit alongside messaging protocol project Paho and M2M tools project Koneki.

Eclipse 4 Application Development – Paper book published

Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 12:57 by EclipseWeb Web
I’m happy to announce that the paper version of the Eclipse 4 Application Development book has been published. The Kindle version has also been updated. Whoever has already the “Early access version� for the Kindle should get an update soon. Unfortunately Amazon takes a few days to process the update to existing Kindle readers.

Chronon and Jubula join forces

Thursday, July 5, 2012 - 14:03 by EclipseWeb Web
Chronon Systems and BREDEX (the company behind Jubula), have joined forces to bring you the best of both testing and debugging worlds.

New versions of Jubula and GUIdancer released

Wednesday, July 4, 2012 - 16:11 by EclipseWeb Web
We are pleased to announce the release of GUIdancer 6.0.1 and Jubula 1.2.1, as well as the successful participation of Jubula in the Eclipse Juno release. GUIdancer and Jubula now contain support for Chronon DVR, which can record the activities of a program to allow post-hoc debugging.

Eclipse Code Recommenders Proposes Code Based On Bayesian Networks

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - 16:53 by EclipseWeb Web
The idea of the code recommenders is to adjust and filter the set of proposals given when the code proposal key sequence is triggered. By default, Eclipse will show the list of public methods (or fields) in alphabetical order. However, when coding against unfamiliar APIs, or ones with many overloaded methods (Quick! Which of the 6 Date constructors is the right1 one to use?), it is not always clear which one should be called.

Eclipse Juno Release Makes Java Developers Smarter

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - 16:53 by EclipseWeb Web
The Eclipse Foundation has released its ninth annual simultaneous release train code-named "Juno" that features a new code completion technology that helps developers work smarter.

Eclipse 'Juno' Release Train Biggest to Date

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - 16:53 by EclipseWeb Web
The Eclipse Foundation today announced its seventh annual synchronized launch of multiple Eclipse projects, better known as the Release Train. This year's release, code-named "Juno," includes 10 new projects as well as the latest upgrade of the default Eclipse application platform. Eclipse 4.2 is now the "mainstream platform" for the Eclipse community, and most of the Release Train projects are shipping on it. The existing Eclipse 3.x code stream is being put into "maintenance mode."

Eclipse API Usage Survey

Friday, June 15, 2012 - 12:03 by EclipseWeb Web
Researchers from the Eindhoven University of Technology are carrying out research about Eclipse API usage in Eclipse products/solutions as part of a PhD research. The aim of the research is to understand the evolution of third-party plug-ins in relation to Eclipse API usage. Your input is requested to guide us in validating our research hypotheses .

Eclipse awarded ACM System Software Award

Monday, April 30, 2012 - 12:18 by EclipseWeb Web
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded Eclipse its prestigious System Software Award. The award is given to recognise "developing a software system that has had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concepts, in commercial acceptance, or both" and has, in the past, gone to the developers of Java, Unix, TeX, Apache, Smalltalk, RPC, the World Wide Web, and PostScript.