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At EclipseCon 2012, Actuate announced a BIRT extension contest for developers. A new iPad (3rd generation) will be awarded for each of the three best plug-in submissions received by April 30th. Plenty of tutorials, sample code and suggested entry ideas are listed on the contest site.

As organizations increasingly become software driven, the role of the application lifecycle is taking a new meaning. Connecting stakeholders in the software lifecycle ceases being a nice to have and any gap in connectivity quickly becomes the bottleneck of software delivery. The organizations are now noticing the friction of having developers do duplicate data entry between their issue tracker and Agile tool, or testers and business analysts queuing up weeks of defects and requirements before handing them off to developers.

Genuitec, LLC, a founding member of the Eclipse Foundation and sponsor of EclipseCon 2012, is proud to share its success with Foundation members and code committers by giving their companies unlimited free licenses of Genuitec’s Secure Delivery Center. These individual developers and corporations make the Eclipse code base the most important in software development today, and Genuitec is proud to reward their hard work with commercial tooling accessible for free.

BREDEX is pleased to announce the release of GUIdancer 6.0 and Jubula 1.2. The new versions contain additional features to make test result reporting and analysis more comfortable, so that test results are easier to integrate into the development process.

EclipseCon 2012 will be held just outside of Washington D.C. in Reston, VA on March 26-29. Considering our long standing relationship with Eclipse, the Jazz Team is proud to be a very active part of the Eclipse Community.

Antelink, provider of multi-source tracking & software lifecycle management, announced today its membership to the Eclipse Foundation. Antelink has joined as a Solutions Member, and will continue to provide its services of Open Source Software detection.

Squish is the leading functional, cross-platform GUI and regression testing tool that can test applications based on a variety of GUI technologies, including Nokia's Qt Software Development Frameworks, Java SWT/Eclipse RCP, Java AWT/Swing, Windows MFC and .NET, Mac OS X Carbon/Cocoa, iOS CocoaTouch and Web/HTML/AJAX.

The Eclipse Foundation has announced the release of version 0.4 of Orion, its browser-based IDE for web development. The first major release for four months, 0.4 contains significant modifications to the project’s UI, as well as improved HTML and CSS validation, syntax highlighting using CodeMirror and better integration with external resources such as GitHub.

With the IWG revealing a public face today, we talk to some of the key members behind the growing ecosystem for long-term safety-critical software tool.

This week, IBM continues to build out its lifecycle portfolio to support mobile apps for enterprise and B2C users. To explore the import of Big Blue’s just-completed acquisition of Worklight and the beta release of IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices IDN talks with Bob Sutor, vice president for IBM’s WebSphere Foundation’s Mobile Platform.

The Eclipse Foundation has opened this year's elections for its board members. There are six seats on the board being elected, with three seats for elected representatives of the Committer Members (who contribute code to Eclipse projects) and three seats for the Sustaining Members (made up of of fee paying Solutions Members and Enterprise Members).

The Eclipse Foundation has published the second service release (SR2) of version 3.7 of its development environment. Service releases typically don't include new features, instead focusing on addressing issues found in the previous versions.

Eclipse CDT 8.0, part of the Indigo release, includes a nice code checking framework: Codan. Out of the box, Codan provides both the infrastructure needed to perform code checks and some useful, ready-to-use checkers.

Juno, the next Eclipse release train, will be the first time the default Eclipse platform will be based on Eclipse 4. This means all the packages on the eclipse.org/download page will be based on Eclipse 4, so lots and lots of people are going to be using Eclipse 4.

Our vision for Agile ALM Connect is to bring together the leaders of different tools that are being used across the application lifecycle. Therefore, I was very happy that Olivier Gaudin, co-founder of the Sonar open source project, agreed to speak at Agile ALM Connect about how continuous inspection of code is an important aspect of continuous delivery.

At Eclipsecon, SPDX Group will be hosting a “Birds of Feather�(Bof) workshop highlighting SPDX 1.0, a standard format for communicating the components, licenses, and copyrights associated with a software package.

Would you believe that 18% of developers that SD Times surveyed said that their organizations are running J2EE 1.4 in production environments? That’s the version of the Java server-side platform that was officially released in November 2003. That shows the persistence of deployed platforms. If it ain’t broke, don’t upgrade it.

The Lua Development Tools (LDT), developed as part of the Eclipse Koneki project, are now available as a stand-alone development environment. LDT developer Benjamin Cabé says that the preconfigured software package is ideal for developers who are not particularly familiar with the Eclipse SDK (Software Development Kit). The standalone version is available to download for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in versions suitable for 32- and 64-bit variants of each operating system. LDT is licensed under Eclipse Public Licence.

In a recently published report outlining key trends and challenges for the open source community, Olliance’s Andrew Aitken notes that the emergence of vertically oriented super communities such as Polarsys, for the aerospace community, and financial-industry led OpenMama, are not only indicative of the maturing of the the open source industry but the evolution of open source supply chains serving industries which share significant economies of scale, regulatory overhead, technological requirements and standards.

Last week, the Eclipse Foundation announced the release of Eclipse Juno M5, a milestone towards this summer's combined release train. It brings new features, such as potential null pointer dereferences and leaked resources (for both Java7, where a try-with-resources can clean it up, and for Java6 using standard try/catch handling.)