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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."

Paho is a project to provide scalable Open Source implementations of lightweight protocols for existing and emerging applications for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions.

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 .

The third consecutive Eclipse Testing Day will take place on 5th September in Darmstadt, Germany. Proposals should be emailed to testingday@bredex.de. See the wiki page for details.

On 29th June in Braunschweig, Germany, Kai Tödter will be holding a one-day hands-on course for e4 development. Further details and registration information are available on the BREDEX website.

Gyrex have announced the release of version 1.0 of the software. With this release, the project moves out of incubation status and becomes a full member project of the Eclipse Foundation.

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.

Today, the Association for Computing Machinery has announced that Eclipse are the latest recipients of the Software System Award, recognising their decade of influence within the development world.

In conjunction with the Eclipse Day Florence (4th May 2012), BREDEX GmbH and RCP Vision are pleased to offer a Jubula Training Day on May 3rd 2012.

Cloud Foundry Integration for Eclipse allows users to deploy applications to Cloud Foundry targets from either Eclipse IDE JEE Indigo or STS (SpringSource Tool Suite) 2.9.0 or higher.

Last week we won the Eclipse Community Awards for Best Developer Tool. Guess its time we start giving back to the community too. Thus today we are announcing the long awaited, free open source license program for Chronon!

With the embedded recorder included in your application, your users will be able to send reports to the development team for investigation. No need for unreliable log files - let Chronon do the hard work for your project.

BIRT 3.7 Report Design: Eclipse-Based BI and Big Data Visualization is an update to our 49th Refcard on BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting tools). This DZone Refcard provides an overview of the BIRT 3.7 components focusing on a few key capabilities of the BIRT Designer, BIRT Runtime APIs, and BIRT Web Viewer. This new version includes references that acknowledge the increasing importance of Big Data in business intelligence reporting.

At EclipseCon 2012, Actuate announced a BIRT extension contest for developers. A new iPad (3rd generation) will be awarded for each of the three best plug-in submissions received by April 30th. Plenty of tutorials, sample code and suggested entry ideas are listed on the contest site.

As organizations increasingly become software driven, the role of the application lifecycle is taking a new meaning. Connecting stakeholders in the software lifecycle ceases being a nice to have and any gap in connectivity quickly becomes the bottleneck of software delivery. The organizations are now noticing the friction of having developers do duplicate data entry between their issue tracker and Agile tool, or testers and business analysts queuing up weeks of defects and requirements before handing them off to developers.

Genuitec, LLC, a founding member of the Eclipse Foundation and sponsor of EclipseCon 2012, is proud to share its success with Foundation members and code committers by giving their companies unlimited free licenses of Genuitec’s Secure Delivery Center. These individual developers and corporations make the Eclipse code base the most important in software development today, and Genuitec is proud to reward their hard work with commercial tooling accessible for free.

BREDEX is pleased to announce the release of GUIdancer 6.0 and Jubula 1.2. The new versions contain additional features to make test result reporting and analysis more comfortable, so that test results are easier to integrate into the development process.

EclipseCon 2012 will be held just outside of Washington D.C. in Reston, VA on March 26-29. Considering our long standing relationship with Eclipse, the Jazz Team is proud to be a very active part of the Eclipse Community.

Antelink, provider of multi-source tracking & software lifecycle management, announced today its membership to the Eclipse Foundation. Antelink has joined as a Solutions Member, and will continue to provide its services of Open Source Software detection.

Squish is the leading functional, cross-platform GUI and regression testing tool that can test applications based on a variety of GUI technologies, including Nokia's Qt Software Development Frameworks, Java SWT/Eclipse RCP, Java AWT/Swing, Windows MFC and .NET, Mac OS X Carbon/Cocoa, iOS CocoaTouch and Web/HTML/AJAX.