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Eclipse has been the editor of choice for Web Application Development for a while now - especially for Java-powered multi-tiered apps. That being said, there are many flavors of Eclipse that target more straight ahead Web projects, such as those that feature JavaScript, or a collection of static pages.

Developers can take advantage of an end-to-end open-source software stack for M2M embedded development, extending from the embedded device to the connection with the server infrastructure, with all of the tools necessary to develop M2M solutions.

It's time to roll up your sleeves and create something awesome for BIRT! A 4th gen iPad will be awarded to each of the top 3 BIRT plug-in submissions to BIRT Exchange by April 30th. Please see the contest page for more info and some suggested ideas, tutorials and samples.

Tasktop announces a new kind of infrastructure for connecting the software lifecycle to help enterprises achieve cross-discipline collaboration and lean Application Lifecycle Management.

Coverity, Inc., the leader in development testing, today announced that it is expanding free access to its development testing service within the open source community with the launch of Coverity Scan for Java open source projects.

Given the girth and weight of Oracle's efforts to focus on the OpenWorld side of its annual developer and user conference program, it is perhaps easy to miss some of the extended news elements emanating from the JavaOne side of the firm's now Sun-enriched technology stack.

The Eclipse Orion IDE is a first online version of Eclipse. You can write code and develop software using an IDE that runs in your browser. But how does it work?

We are happy to announce the next major release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.2.0 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.2.0.

The Orion 1.0 release came out in October of last year, and here we are four months later with an Orion 2.0 release.

On January 11th, Eclipse RAP 2.0 was released, after 6 years of development. During that time the project has been fully integrated into the Eclipse Platform, to support multiple user interfaces on top of Eclipse 4.

I love hearing what people are doing with Eclipse. It really is amazing the great software people have built on top of Eclipse. This is why at EclipseCon, I love to attend the sessions where users show what they have been doing with Eclipse.

You plan, design, develop and maintain software for your customers? NatSpec is a tool to transform customer requirements given in natural language to executable acceptance tests.

Eclipse's Mike Milinkovich discusses OpenJDK, the JCP, patents, and recent developments at Eclipse.

EclipseCon 2013 will have a track focused on adopting Eclipse 4. Check out the sessions and tutorials for Eclispe 4.

The Eclipse Foundation has announced LocationTech - a new initiative meant to help enterprises build location aware systems.

The Eclipse Foundation announced its LocationTech initiative on February 5th via a press release. The Foundation, with more than 190 members and more than 225 projects underway, is one of a number of organizations that nurture and grow open source software. It grew out of an early IBM open source project called Eclipse.

To address their unique open source tooling objectives, CERN needed a solution to facilitate rapid tooling support for control systems of the Large Hadron Collider [LHC].

The Amazon Mobile App SDK Eclipse Plugin (beta) allows you to rapidly and reliably integrate Amazon APIs into your Android projects, speeding up development and cutting down on project setup time.

The Virgo team would be grateful if you could take the Virgo community survey before the deadline of February 14 2013.

As announced in our last blog post we are now ready with the crowdwriting setup of the Eclipse Scout book. The goal of the Scout book is to significantly lower the entry barrier into Eclipse Scout. That’s why this book is primarily targetet at Eclipse beginners. To start working with the book, we only assume a meaningful understanding of the Java language and hands on experience covering the Java SE.