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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.

The Eclipse Foundation has announced the release of version 0.4 of Orion, its browser-based IDE for web development. The first major release for four months, 0.4 contains significant modifications to the project’s UI, as well as improved HTML and CSS validation, syntax highlighting using CodeMirror and better integration with external resources such as GitHub.

With the IWG revealing a public face today, we talk to some of the key members behind the growing ecosystem for long-term safety-critical software tool.

This week, IBM continues to build out its lifecycle portfolio to support mobile apps for enterprise and B2C users. To explore the import of Big Blue’s just-completed acquisition of Worklight and the beta release of IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices IDN talks with Bob Sutor, vice president for IBM’s WebSphere Foundation’s Mobile Platform.

The Eclipse Foundation has opened this year's elections for its board members. There are six seats on the board being elected, with three seats for elected representatives of the Committer Members (who contribute code to Eclipse projects) and three seats for the Sustaining Members (made up of of fee paying Solutions Members and Enterprise Members).

The Eclipse Foundation has published the second service release (SR2) of version 3.7 of its development environment. Service releases typically don't include new features, instead focusing on addressing issues found in the previous versions.

Eclipse CDT 8.0, part of the Indigo release, includes a nice code checking framework: Codan. Out of the box, Codan provides both the infrastructure needed to perform code checks and some useful, ready-to-use checkers.

Juno, the next Eclipse release train, will be the first time the default Eclipse platform will be based on Eclipse 4. This means all the packages on the eclipse.org/download page will be based on Eclipse 4, so lots and lots of people are going to be using Eclipse 4.