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Updated Eclipse Toolkit Bootstraps Development, Continuous Integration, Deployment Environments for Many Popular Technology Stacks, Including Play Framework, GlassFish, Java EE 6 & 7, Scala and More

Are you an Eclipse user? Do you want a fast and easy way to search for text snippets and patterns in your workspace? Then read on!

Dear Spring Community, we are happy to announce the next major release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.3.0 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.3.0.

Most time in debuggers is spent doing the same few things: setting breakpoints, stepping through code, looking at variables. Which products make those features supremely accessible and useful? We compare 13 debuggers and find out.

Mastering any business application is more than knowing where to click and when, it is knowing why you need to click at all. For nearly a decade DevelopIntelligence has been doing what few others in the software training industry have: teach both.

The Eclipse Foundation has delivered Kepler, its latest annual release train of projects – this one with support for big data, enhanced BI and usability among other things.

This year Eclipse is unleashing dozens of open source tools and upgrades, including additional support for big data in BIRT 4.3.

This year, the release train synchronised 71 different projects, 420 developers and 54 organisations to ensure that they release their projects together at the end of June in one large-scale release.

Just in time for BIRT 4.3, renovated BIRT Exchange developer community website sports new UI and easier access to downloads, forums and blogs.

The Eclipse Foundation announced the release of Eclipse Kepler, the eighth simultaneous release consisting of 71 Eclipse projects and over 58 million lines of code.

Hamburg, Germany – 2013-06-25 froglogic GmbH today announced that Squish 5.0—a major new version of the popular Squish GUI Tester —is now available.

In an admission that the role of a modern open source foundation has changed, the Eclipse Foundation has said it will start allowing projects to host their core development on third-party forges such as GitHub. The reasons behind this change are outlined in a blog post by Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation.

JAX Editor Chris Mayer catches a few minutes with Eclipse Orion project lead Ken Walker to discuss the browser IDE and its design goal, its difference from the main Eclipse projects and which technologies you can pull into it.

With next week's release of Eclipse Kepler just around the corner, Mike Milinkovich has written a post looking to the future of Social Coding at Eclipse. In it, he talks about the possibility of Eclipse projects being mastered at GitHub rather than on the foundation's own servers, citing Vert.X as the initial candidate for leading this change.

Benjamin Cabé is Open Source Evangelist at Sierra Wireless. He has a longtime passion for Eclipse and its ecosystem, and is a committer on several Eclipse projects and contributor to numerous other open source projects. As the chair of the Eclipse M2M Industry Working Group, he advocates the use of innovative technologies for the Internet of Things. He co-leads Eclipse projects Koneki and Mihini.

Combitech proudly announces its membership in Eclipse Foundation and the Polarsys Industrial Working Group.

Mike Milinkovich is the Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, and has been involved with Eclipse since before its inception.

Renesas Electronics America has released an enhanced version of e2studio, an Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE). e2studio is designed to provide a flexible development platform for Renesas microcontrollers (MCUs).

Further Demonstrates Commitment to Java Developers and Open Source Community by Providing Technology Compatibility Kits and Support Services for Two Eclipse Projects.

Sven Efftinge is the project lead of Eclipse Xtend, a statically-typed programming language for the JVM, and Xtext, a framework for developing programming languages and domain-specific languages. Sven currently works as development manager for itemis.