Community News

I am very happy to welcome Google as the newest Strategic Member of the Eclipse Foundation. This is important, and exciting news for the Eclipse community. Google will be joining CA Technologies, IBM, Oracle and SAP as the backbone of the Eclipse Foundation’s funding, as each of these companies are providing $250,000 per year for our operations.

Eclipse Orion is a new IDE designed specifically for web development, and one we’ve covered before at JAXenter. It’s a project with lofty goals: “to make the web itself the development environment, instead of trying to bring existing desktop IDE concepts to the browser�. It’s meant not as a browser-based replacement for Eclipse, but as a new project with the Eclipse spirit aimed at web developers.

We are happy to announce the next major release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.1.0 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.1.0.

With EclipseCon Europe fast approaching we wanted to have some cool demos to show off Orion that were a little out of the ordinary. Given that Orion can provide a UI to the file system of an underlying installation it seemed a natural fit to get it running on a headless Raspberry Pi.

Eclipse Orion, the foundation's latest venture aims to create an web IDE, stocked with tools for developing with JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. It's a completely separate outlet from Eclipse's successful Java IDE - a new codebase, adopting the motto - "Tools for the web, on the webâ".

Ralph Müller's blog post provides an easy way for Eclipse community members to help make EclipseCon Europe / OSGi Community Event a successful event.

Actuate, The BIRT Company™, is hosting one-day events in both San Francisco (Nov 8) and New York City (Nov 14) to provide insights into the future of data visualization, Big Data and business analytics that are available today in ActuateOne. These free events are open to anyone with experience or interest in BIRT.

DevBoost is happy to announce the release of the open-source build tool BuildBoost for Eclipse, OSGi and Java developers. BuildBoost was originally developed for Eclipse-based tools and is now used to build, integrate and deliver multiple open-source tools such as HEDL, JUnitLoop, JaMoPP and EMFText.

Codan is the Eclipse CDT (C/C++ Development Tooling) built-in code analysis framework for C/C++ projects. Codan provides infrastructure to perform static code analysis and comes with ready-to-use problem checkers. With the Eclipse Juno release, Codan was extended to enable developers to automatically execute external code analysis tools.

At Architexa we have been working very hard to help developers examine code and its architecture. In expanding this effort, effective immediately, the Architexa tool suite is available for free.

We are proud to announce that the newest major release of our Eclipse-based developer tooling is now available. This is a major release not only in terms new features but because of other serious changes like componentization, open-sourcing and the fact that for the first time we are making multiple distributions available, each tailored for a different kind of developer.

Nobody can really accuse the new Machine-To-Machine (M2M) Industry Working Group of not being productive. Yet another Eclipse project proposal has emerged, hoping to sit alongside messaging protocol project Paho and M2M tools project Koneki.

Squish for Java is the leading functional, cross-platform GUI and regression testing tool for creating and executing automated GUI tests for Java SWT/RCP and AWT/Swing applications.

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.