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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 Systems and BREDEX (the company behind Jubula), have joined forces to bring you the best of both testing and debugging worlds.

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.

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.

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.

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.