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eWEEK Labs finds Eclipse has greatly matured from its early, much slower days. Today, the application development platform can aptly be described as powerful and feature-rich.

The recent 3.5 release of Eclipse, code-named Galileo, brings loads of new features that will help developers become even more productive

As is already indicated by version 0.9, which has just been released, Eclipse 4 will incorporate several familiar web technologies and put them to new uses.

The Eclipse development environment has become a very popular open source project. A flexible software tool kit, Eclipse can integrate the products of several vendors as plug-ins, for example for modelling, development and software tests; for some time now, Eclipse hasn't just been about Java.

Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE), the #1 free development environment for Oracle WebLogic Server, is now available on new brand new Eclipse 3.5, as well as 3.4. This release introduces new tools for Oracle WebLogic Server, easier WebLogic / EclipseLink configuration, and new WebLogic JAX-WS Web Services tools. This free set of certified Eclipse plug-ins is designed to help develop, deploy, debug, and test applications for Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Database. It installs as a plug-in to your existing Eclipse, or will install Eclipse for you.

froglogic GmbH today announced support for automated testing of Java Rich Client Platform (RCP) applications based on the new Eclipse 3.5 release code named Galileo.

Squish for Java is a leading functional GUI and regression testing tool enabling the creation and execution of automated GUI tests for Java SWT/RCP and AWT/Swing applications.

Research In Motion (RIM) today announced new and enhanced tools for developing web applications for BlackBerry® smartphones. The tools include the new BlackBerry® Web Development Plug-in for Eclipse and the BlackBerry® Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio version 1.2. These tools are part of a complete portfolio of BlackBerry® developer tools for web and Java development and a rich set of APIs that enable developers to easily create a wide variety of mobile applications that connect BlackBerry® smartphone users to the information they care about.

Version 3.1 of GUIdancer is now available for download. As well adding support for the testing of GEF (Graphical Editing Framework) components, the new version is available for MAC OSX as a beta, and is compatible with Eclipse 3.5.

Increased platform and application support are not the only areas where the Eclipse-based test tool has been expanded. GUIdancer's efficient keyword-driven approach has also been extended to improve the testing of dynamic tables.

Unter dem Dach der Open Source Community Eclipse Foundation arbeiten seit Februar namhafte OEMs, Zulieferer und Toolanbieter der Autobranche innerhalb der Eclipse Automotive Industry Working Group zusammen. Ziel ist es, nach dem unternehmensspezifischen Einsatz der Open-Source-Plattform Eclipse den nächsten Schritt zu einer offenen, gemeinsamen Lösung für die Branche bei Entwicklungs-Prozessen und -Werkzeugen zu gehen.

Visual Rules is a Business Rules Management Platform that enables the efficient management of business rules. It comprises rule modeling, simulation, testing, integration and deployment, including monitoring and rule maintenance.

Brought to you by Saltmarch Media, producers of the hugely successful Great Indian Developer Summit, in association with India's pioneering and foremost group of Eclipse intelligentsia, ANCiT Consulting, Eclipse India Summit 2009 will feature four core tracks that hold relevance, immediacy and impact for the Eclipse ecosystem in India. Sessions, Keynotes and Workshops on GEF & Zest, Plugin Development, EMF, RCP, eRCP and RAP, BIRT, Testing, OSGI/Equinox, Design Patterns, and more.

Avis aux développeurs : la version annuelle d'Eclipse et de tous ses composants est désormais disponible sur le site de la fondation. Comme tous les ans, les nouveautés sont considérables.

Ab heute Nachmittag, ca. 15 Uhr mitteleuropäischer Zeit, steht die lang erwartete Eclipse 3.5 Version Galileo zum Download auf eclipse.org bereit! Grund genug auch für die JAXenter-Redaktion, die den Galileo-Release-Zyklus über die letzten Monate hinweg journalistisch begleiten durfte, die Sektkorken knallen zu lassen und ein wenig mitzufeiern! Und so präsentieren wir uns in den nächsten Tagen ganz im festlichen Galileo-Gewand! Herzlichen Glückwunsch an alle Entwickler, die an den 33 Projekten der Eclipse-Galileo-Version mitgearbeitet haben!

The brand new build I am referring to is entitled Pulsar and is squarely focused for mobile Java developers. Pulsar however, is a lot more then just a new part of the release train of Galileo but, an effort to simplify mobile application development for different mobile platforms. You can read more about this in this DeveloperWorld article.

Apple Macs, iPhones, and other mobile devices are being pulled into the open-source tools universe of Eclipse, a group whose genesis can be traced to enterprise Java and C/C++.
The project today released Eclipse 3.5, codenamed Galileo, which wraps 33 projects in an integrated release. For the first time, the bundle can be downloaded for development of Cocoa Mac applications destined for deployment on 32-bit and 64-bit Apple systems.

News out today that the Eclipse community has delivered Galileo. The 2009 Eclipse release train is made up of 24 million lines of code across 33 projects, with contributions from 380 committers and 44 companies participating.
As a product manager, I must say this is a pretty impressive accomplishment by the Eclipse Foundation and everyone involved with Eclipse. Well done!

The Eclipse Foundation's annual release train, this year dubbed Galileo, has now been released. The Eclipse release train brings together a large number of Eclipse projects and synchronises them into a single release with the aim of making "commercial adoption simple and straightfoward" according to Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director at the Eclipse Foundation. The idea is that rather than a commercial adopter trying picking up what could be dozens of seperate projects, by using the release train, they can plan for one major annual update.

The Eclipse Foundation will put out on Wednesday its annual release train, this time featuring the simultaneous release of technologies from 33 different open source project teams in spaces ranging mobile to SOA to the base Eclipse platform.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced its fourth "release train," a coordinated, simultaneous launch of a group of open-source Eclipse projects that has become an annual event. Representing a key milestone for Eclipse, this year’s new release train, code named "Galileo," is the largest yet, comprising 33 projects and more than 24 million lines of code.

Today marks the much anticipated release of Eclipse Galileo, or Eclipse 3.5. Once again, it's striking how such a large set of projects across the developer community can coordinate such a big software drop consistently, year after year. Congratulations and much respect is due to the project leads, developers and Eclipse foundation for achieving this.

Im sechsten Jahr in Folge hat die Eclipse-Community wieder ein koordiniertes Eclipse-Paket ausgeliefert. Die aktuelle Zusammenstellung namens Galileo umfasst über 33 Eclipse-Projekte mit über 24 Millionen Codezeilen und ist somit das umfangreichste vorkonfigurierte Paket, das die Eclipse-Community bisher geschnürt hat: Über 380 Committer von 44 Organisationen haben zu der neuen Version beigetragen.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the release of Eclipse Galileo, the simultaneous release of 33 projects, including the venerable Eclipse JDT. As well as the new features covered by InfoQ already, the Galileo release includes the PHP Development Tools Project, as well as stalwarts like modelling packages and the persistence layer EclipseLink (formerly known as Oracle's TopLink).