Announcements

Mobile Tools for the Java Platform (MTJ) completed its first release (0.7) in November. On December 12 a webinar will be held to discuss the current features of the product, exposes our future plans, and highlights the extensible architecture.

Sponsorship Packages are now available for EclipseCon 2007.

The Eclipse Foundation announced today the keynote speakers for its fourth annual community conference, EclipseCon 2007. The conference brings together the Eclipse community to share and learn new techniques, ideas and technologies, as well as provide information about the latest developments and future plans of the Eclipse projects. The conference will be held March 5-8, 2007 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

IBM is pleased to contribute translations for the Eclipse Project, the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) Project, the Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) Project, the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) Project, the Eclipse Modeling Project, the Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) Project and for several subprojects of the Eclipse Tools Project for the Callisto releases.

This AJDT release includes bug fixes and new features in the areas of binary weaving, refactoring and build automation, as well as incorporating the AspectJ 1.5.3 release, which itself includes numerous bug fixes, greatly reduced memory usage, and enhancements for load-time weaving and serviceability.

The Eclipse Ajax Toolkit Framework (ATF) provides exemplary tools for creating and debugging AJAX applications. This webinar will demonstrate how to use ATF to create, debug, and deploy an Ajax application on both Apache and J2EE servers.

EclipseCon long talk deadline is rapidly approaching on Dec 1st. There are 65 slots for long talks, but we can't consider/choose yours unless you submit one.

The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal software development platform, today announced three milestone releases within the Eclipse Device Software Development Platform (DSDP). Founded in 2005 as a top-level Eclipse project, the mission of DSDP is to create an open, extensible, scalable and standards-based development platform to address the needs of the device software market.

Two new RCP webinars have been scheduled: 1) Building a Great GUI using Eclipse RCP is scheduled for November 21, and 2) Packaging and Deploying Applications based on Eclipse RCP is scheduled for December 14. These webinars are sponsored by Palamida, Instantiations, IBM and Eclipse Foundation.

Today, the Eclipse community celebrates five years as an open source project. Eclipse has grown from its roots as a Java IDE project to become a universal development platform for building and deploying software. There are now 66 open source projects at Eclipse, generating millions of downloads. It is estimated that more than 1,300 Eclipse based products are now available.

WTP 1.5.2 has been released to fix serious bugs and performance problems that were found too late to fix in the previous maintenance release. Those with 1.5.1 already installed need only use UpdateManger to "find updates for currently installed features". All-in-one zip files, SDKs, and minimal runtimes are also available from the download site.

Eclipse is getting ready to celebrate its 5th birthday on November 7th. To celebrate, a number of activities are being organized for the Eclipse community.

The deadline to submit proposals for tutorials at EclipseCon 2007 is November 1, 2006

Reminder for Wednesday, October 25, 2006, Webinar - Mylar: A Task Focused UI for Eclipse, presented by Mik Kersten

Reminder for Wednesday, October 18, 2006: Webinar - Developing C/C++ Applications with the CDT, presented by Doug Schaefer

These 2 projects have recently graduated from the Technology Project to the Tools Project.

We are re-designing the eclipse.org home page. The intention is to make it easier for our user community to find relevant information about the Eclipse projects and also make it easier to download.

Right now we have a beta version of the home page that will be displayed on a random basis to about 25% of the home page visitors. We have also opened a bug to collect feedback. Please let us know what you like and dislike about the home page.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Congratulations to all the winners!