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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.

SAP AG announced on the 16th December that its NetWeaver Cloud product, a Java-based platform-as-a-service, has achieved Java EE 6 Web Profile Compatibility.

Mira Mezini, Informatik-Professorin an der TU Darmstadt, wird mit der höchstdotierten EU-Forschungsförderung ausgezeichnet. Der Europäischen Forschungsrat (European Research Council) gewährt Mezini einen "Advanced Grant" in Höhe von 2,3 Millionen Euro, den sie für die Erforschung grundlegend neuer Programmierkonzepte beim Cloud Computing aufwenden will.

It's déjà vu all over again, as the Eclipse Foundation released version 1.0 of a new IDE originally created by IBM. But this time, the IDE lives on a server and in your browser. The Orion Project hit version 1.0 on Oct. 29, heralding a new era of browser-based development.

We have released v3 of Chronon Recording Server and Chronon Time Traveling Debugger. Developers and QA Teams can now experience incredible performance improvements of up to 10X with V3 of the Chronon Recording Server making this the best solution to resolve issues in your development, QA and production environments.

Roll up your sleeves and create an awesome extension to BIRT! At EclipseCon Europe 2012, Actuate announced a new worldwide programming contest for developers. Plenty of suggestions, tutorials and code are listed on the contest site. Deadline is Nov 30th for your chance to win an iPad!

SunGard’s Infinity Process Platform is now available from the Eclipse Stardust project, an open source business process management (BPM) suite designed to help improve the infrastructure behind many of the finance industry’s key operations.

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.