Announcements

There are two weeks left to qualify for the EclipseCon discounted early registration price. EclipseCon is the annual conference for the Eclipse community. It is a great opportunity to learn about over 70 different Eclipse projects. The complete conference program is now available on-line.
The conference takes place March 5-8 in Santa Clara Convention Center. The deadline for early registration is February 14, 2007.

The Bandit and Eclipse Higgins Projects today announced the achievement of a key milestone in the development of open source identity services. Based on working code from the two projects and the larger community of open source developers, the teams have created a reference application that showcases open source identity services that are interoperable with Microsoft’s Windows* CardSpace* identity management system and enable Liberty Alliance-based identity federation via Novell® Access Manager.

Looking to learn more about the different projects involved that make up Eclipse? We are running a series of free webinars to help you better understand how you can use the different Eclipse projects.

The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal development platform, today announced the release of the Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) 1.0, a collection of extensible frameworks and exemplary tools for developing data-centric applications in the Eclipse environment. With DTP 1.0, developers can now easily leverage existing data sources, such as enterprise databases, within the extensible Eclipse Platform. Data-related applications are growing in significance, so this release meets an important development requirement in the software industry.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced that Actuate, BEA Systems, Business Objects, IBM and Klocwork have signed on as Gold Sponsors for EclipseCon 2007, the annual conference that brings together the Eclipse community. Gold Sponsorship is the highest level of sponsorship for the conference. The third annual EclipseCon will be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Calif., March 5-8, 2007.

Nominations for the Eclipse Community Awards are closing shortly on January 22, 2007. See http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/eclipseawards/index.php for more information on the awards program and on how to submit a nomination.

The Eclipse Training Working Group has completed its survey of the community and the results are available at http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Training_Working_Group
The survey was responded to by over 600 people and although its not a truly scientific sample, it does provide some very good insights into the area of Eclipse training and education which should be useful to us all.
Thanks to all the people who contributed to the development of the survey, to the community members who participated, and especially to Donald Smith who supported the Working Group in using "Survey Monkey"

The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal software development platform, today announced it has become a member of three industry specification groups: Java Community Process (JCP), Object Management Group (OMG) and the OSGi Alliance. The Eclipse Foundation has joined these organizations to further promote the relationship between open standards and open source implementations.

Eclipse is kicking off its webinar series with 2 events in January. Both webinars are free to attend, so please register if you are interested.

Nominations are now open for the Eclipse Community Awards, visit http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/eclipseawards/index.php for more information.

Most EclipseCon 2007 Long talks have been scheduled and the conference Program is up to date. Look at the sessions, register today and save!

The Eclipse Community would greatly appreciate your feedback on Eclipse Training and Services.

The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal software development platform, today announced the release of Eclipse Mylar 1.0. Mylar is a tasked-focused user interface that enhances developer productivity by reducing information overload and enabling easy multi-tasking.

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.