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The Eclipse Day 2010 in Rome, the first event taking place in Italy focusing on the enterprise adoption of Eclipse-based solutions, has turned out to be a successful event. 150 people coming from various sectors have followed the different presentations. Two interesting use cases on service-oriented architectures based on Eclipse solutions have been presented by testimonials of the Veneto Region and DHL Deutsche Post.

Essentially Virgo is the culmination of 3 years of work in developing an application server based entirely on OSGi and exposing OSGi for use by applications. Virgo started inside SpringSource as the dm Server project which was licensed under the GNU Public License and shipped two major versions. About a year ago we started donating the codebase to Eclipse as the Virgo project licensed under the much more liberal Eclipse Public License.

The Eclipse Foundation has made the area of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) a strategic topic and has created a new top level project for application lifecycle tools. The Mylyn project will now become the home for related areas such as the management of tasks, contexts, software configurations and builds, as well as for reviews and documentations.

Coming from a .NET background, I love the Visual Studio debugger. I can stop code execution at any time and look at the values of any of the variables. There's none of this dumping huge arrays to the web page and examining the output. I've wanted to set up a debugger for Drupal with Eclipse for a long time now, and setup instructions vary wildly. Here's my take on it.

Curious what it’s like to develop tools and IDEs with Eclipse? In this episode, Greg Amerson goes into the details of how you get started and what to expect:

"Congratulations to Genuitec for its unwavering support of the Eclipse community. Pulse, like many other powerful Eclipse-based technologies, continues to attract world-class developers to the Eclipse platform," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. "As we continuously enhance our code base and march toward Eclipse 3.7 next summer, we’re pleased that Genuitec will continue to support developers using Eclipse with its Pulse management software."

Here at Google, we have engineers using Eclipse every day to build our external and internal products, as well as engineers building and releasing Eclipse tools. Earlier this year, we announced Eclipse Labs, which is “a single place where anyone can start and maintain their open source projects based on the Eclipse platform with just a few clicks.� Since we use Eclipse so much here at Google, hosting Eclipse Day at the Googleplex is one way of giving back to the community and providing an environment for Eclipse contributors and users to network and share ideas.

Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g aims to help accelerate Java development tasks. Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse is a free set of Eclipse-based plug-ins that enables developers to build Java EE and Web Services applications for the Oracle Fusion Middleware platform where Eclipse is the preferred Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

froglogic GmbH today announced support for automated testing of Java Rich Client Platform (RCP) applications based on the new Eclipse 3.6 release code named Helios.

Aster Data, a proven leader dedicated to providing the best data management and data processing platform for big data analytics, today announced that Aster Data Developer Express, a point-and-click visual development environment introduced earlier this year, is now downloadable : from Aster Data's web site, www.asterdata.com, and is also listed in the Eclipse Marketplace web site

Last week, the Eclipse Foundation released Eclipse 4.0 Early Adopter SDK. This shouldn't be confused with the production-ready Eclipse Helios release (aka Eclipse 3.6). Rather, Eclipse 4.0 is a sneak preview of what Eclipse will look like in the future.

New Features Provide Broader Support for Oracle Fusion Middleware Components and Eclipse 3.6

The Eclipse Foundation has announced the official availability of version 4 of Eclipse SDK. With this new generation of the Eclipse development environment, the Eclipse developers are aiming to modernise the IDE's underlying architecture to include contemporary features such as a model-based user interface framework, CSS-based declarative styling of the UI and a services oriented programming model for consuming Eclipse provided services. A more modern look and feel for the workbench has also been incorporated along with binary API compatibility with previous releases to make migration simpler.

nWire Software focuses on building tools for the Eclipse IDE (Integrated Development Environment), including nWire for Java and nWire for PHP: a real time code analysis tools, offering code exploration, search and visualization. nWire accelerates development by helping developers navigate through their code and better understand the architecture of their application. It can dramatically reduce the learning curve for developers entering a large code base. nWire is based on the standard Eclipse IDE toolset and smoothly integrates with the platform.

Oracle recently released Java 6 update 21 which had a small but innocuous change in the way that the java.dll was created. Unfortunately, this change impacted Eclipse's startup, causing more problems for Eclipse than NetBeans ever had under Sun.

With the recent release (June 23) of the Eclipse Foundation's 39-project Helios release train, eWEEK has decided to take a look at what many in the Eclipse community view as some of the top projects coming out of the organization. Eclipse is an open-source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. Eclipse started as a Java IDE, but has since grown to be much, much more.

EGL is a higher-level programming language designed for simplifying development of modern business applications and services. EGL code compiles into COBOL, Java, and JavaScript, which means it can be deployed to a wide variety of environments. EGL frees developers to focus on the business problem rather than on the details of the target runtime platforms and associated middleware. EGL is ideal for business-oriented development teams that value ease of learning and need to quickly deliver modern applications and services.

Excelsior LLC today announced support for Eclipse 3.6 Helios in Excelsior JET, an application hardening solution for protection of code and data in safety-critical Eclipse RCP applications.

Version 4.2 of GUIdancer is now available for download. Highlights of the new release include support for applications written with Eclipse 3.6 (Helios) as well as various new options to analyse and debug tests.

So with Eclipse’ Helios dropping yesterday, right on schedule (even with everyone else watching the U.S.-Algeria game) it’s worth noting that this is the seventh straight year that the code has arrived on precisely the day it was supposed to.