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Project Orion is a browser-based development effort run by the Eclipse Foundation, but it has nothing to do with the Eclipse Framework, a workbench favored by enterprise Java developers for connecting lots of different third party tools into a common and open framework. Orion does not squeeze the Eclipse Framework into the browser, and it doesn't try to plant an IDE in the cloud. It's not even built on the same language as Eclipse. Orion is built on JavaScript while Eclipse is mostly written in Java.

froglogic GmbH today announced that it will exhibit and participate in the Hot New Products Showcase at the EclipseCon 2011 conference in Santa Clara, California from March 21st until March 24th. froglogic's booth will show Squish, their market leading automated GUI testing tool.

Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the availability of Adobe® ColdFusion® Builder™ 2 software for public beta, enabling ColdFusion developers worldwide to test the new features and functionality that will be made available in the final release of ColdFusion Builder 2. ColdFusion Builder is an Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE) used for rapidly developing ColdFusion applications.

Tasktop Technologies, creators of the Eclipse Mylyn project and a leader in Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration and productivity, and SmartBear Software today announced the Eclipse Mylyn Connector for SmartBear CodeCollaborator. Available in Tasktop Enterprise, the new connector brings task-focused interface technology to code reviews managed in CodeCollaborator, making code reviews a regular part of Eclipse-based development activities.

Cheryl McKinnon, who is chief marketing officer at Nuxeo, says this project could provide companies access to an open source content repository on which they can build custom content applications. "This is a significant step in the evolution of ECM because the core content repository services are openly available to any organization or software vendor needing to build a content rich application--with CMIS support inherently available. ECM can now become pervasively adopted and incorporated anywhere, any time," McKinnon explained.

Discover the top 10 fastest rising solutions in January listed on Eclipse Marketplace.

ZeroTurnaround, creators of java tooling for development and production environments, today announced both that it has become an official member of the Eclipse Foundation, and today’s release of JRebel 3.6 includes support for the Eclipse Marketplace.

Earlier this month, Mike Milinkovich announced a "brand new adventure for Eclipse;" a new, browser-based open tool integration platform focusing on web development. Although Orion is in the pre-proposal stage, the project has already captured the community's imagination, with Gartner blogging that Orion could become "Eclipse the next generation," if the community gets behind this project. JAXenter caught up with Eclipse Platform UI lead Boris Bokowski, to find out more about this new project......

First to come to mind is that Orion IS NOT intended to be traditional Eclipse (i.e. desktop Eclipse as we know it today) ported to the cloud. It’s an entirely new codebase. It is also not necessarily targeted at the existing eclipse community (at least not the sizable portion of this community focused on traditional enterprise Java) and at the moment there is no obvious migration path for desktop Eclipse efforts to Orion. The Orion community will emerge as a new community in its own right focused very heavily on web and cloud centric efforts.

"Orion is a brand new, browser-based open tool integration platform which is entirely focused on developing for the Web, in the Web," Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation told InternetNews.com. "This is not Eclipse in a browser -- it is a completely new codebase with a completely new metaphor for tool integration and workflow that matches the idioms of the Web rather than the desktop."

OnPositive is leveraging its outstanding experience in eclipse development to maintain and improve Runtime Analysis Tools project, former Instantiations CodePro Profiler, which was contributed to Eclipse community by Google. If approved by the Eclipse community, RAT will provide major distributions with an optional tool for performance analysis and finding CPU/Allocation and other bottlenecks in Java applications. The tool may be useful to any Java software engineer.

In a Dec 15 blog post, Eric Clayberg, software engineering manager for Google developer tools, said Google has donated the source code and related intellectual property from two of the products the search giant gained in its acquisition of Instantiations to the Eclipse Foundation. Clayberg was vice president of product development at Instantiations before moving over to Google via the acquisition. Instantiations specialized in making tools for the Eclipse platform, among other things.

Google is announcing on Wednesday its donation of GUI designer technology to the Eclipse Foundation, a contribution that an Eclipse official said could lead to the emergence of mobile GUI builders and other capabilities.

Tools being donated include the WindowBuilder Java UI design tool as well as CodePro Profiler, a runtime Java analysis gauging factors like memory leaks. Both tools became Google property when the company bought Instantiations in August; they will now become open source projects at Eclipse.

Eclipse has long been an essential tool for developers. With the arrival of the RCP project for Eclipse, the platform moved from just being an IDE into the new category of application platform.

Join us for a code intensive webinar that demonstrates ease of development with Java EE 6, GlassFish and Eclipse. Java EE 6 introduces a number of features that significantly ease the development of web applications. GlassFish is the world's most popular open source application server and currently the number one Java EE 6 compliant application server. Eclipse is the development IDE of choice for developers worldwide. Learn how they can be used together to build web applications and REST services.

Le patron de la fondation Eclipse, Mike Milinkovitch, s’est livré au jeu des questions-réponses du MagIT lors de la journée Eclipse Day Paris le 5 novembre dernier. Une occasion pour lui de revenir sur les prochaines orientations de la fondation, ses enjeux, ainsi que sur les relations, aujourd’hui tumultueuses, qui unissent Java à Oracle.

Leveraging the Eclipse IDE, the Sonatype Professional suite integrates Maven with the company's Nexus Professional enterprise repository manager; Sonatype's Matrix, which is the company's rendition of the Hudson open source continuous integration project; and m2eclipse, for visual management of Maven. m2eclipse features a series of IDE plug-ins for working with Maven. An onboarding capability in the suite allows developers to fashion a custom development environment via single click of a button. The environment can include plug-ins, source code branches, and continuous integration jobs

BREDEX GmbH announced today that core parts of GUIdancer, their award-winning automated functional testing tool, are to be released as an open source project within the Eclipse Foundation, under the name "Jubula".

Ever wonder what are the most popular Eclipse plugins? The Eclipse Marketplace is keeping track of the number of times developers install different solutions from the Marketplace Client. The data from last 4+ plus months starts to show what are the most popular Eclipse solutions. Here are the top 10 for the last 30 days and Alltime (since the client was launched as part of Helios)

Innovations Software Technology Corp. (Bosch Group), a leading provider of Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) software and Financial Industry Solutions, announces the release of Visual Rules Version 5.0 on November 11, 2010. Visual Rules, the premier BRM platform, now delivers new, web-based tools for business users. Additionaly, there is full support for mastering the rule change, test, and deployment processes.