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"Orion is a brand new, browser-based open tool integration platform which is entirely focused on developing for the Web, in the Web," Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation told InternetNews.com. "This is not Eclipse in a browser -- it is a completely new codebase with a completely new metaphor for tool integration and workflow that matches the idioms of the Web rather than the desktop."

OnPositive is leveraging its outstanding experience in eclipse development to maintain and improve Runtime Analysis Tools project, former Instantiations CodePro Profiler, which was contributed to Eclipse community by Google. If approved by the Eclipse community, RAT will provide major distributions with an optional tool for performance analysis and finding CPU/Allocation and other bottlenecks in Java applications. The tool may be useful to any Java software engineer.

In a Dec 15 blog post, Eric Clayberg, software engineering manager for Google developer tools, said Google has donated the source code and related intellectual property from two of the products the search giant gained in its acquisition of Instantiations to the Eclipse Foundation. Clayberg was vice president of product development at Instantiations before moving over to Google via the acquisition. Instantiations specialized in making tools for the Eclipse platform, among other things.

Google is announcing on Wednesday its donation of GUI designer technology to the Eclipse Foundation, a contribution that an Eclipse official said could lead to the emergence of mobile GUI builders and other capabilities.

Tools being donated include the WindowBuilder Java UI design tool as well as CodePro Profiler, a runtime Java analysis gauging factors like memory leaks. Both tools became Google property when the company bought Instantiations in August; they will now become open source projects at Eclipse.

Eclipse has long been an essential tool for developers. With the arrival of the RCP project for Eclipse, the platform moved from just being an IDE into the new category of application platform.

Join us for a code intensive webinar that demonstrates ease of development with Java EE 6, GlassFish and Eclipse. Java EE 6 introduces a number of features that significantly ease the development of web applications. GlassFish is the world's most popular open source application server and currently the number one Java EE 6 compliant application server. Eclipse is the development IDE of choice for developers worldwide. Learn how they can be used together to build web applications and REST services.

Le patron de la fondation Eclipse, Mike Milinkovitch, s’est livré au jeu des questions-réponses du MagIT lors de la journée Eclipse Day Paris le 5 novembre dernier. Une occasion pour lui de revenir sur les prochaines orientations de la fondation, ses enjeux, ainsi que sur les relations, aujourd’hui tumultueuses, qui unissent Java à Oracle.

Leveraging the Eclipse IDE, the Sonatype Professional suite integrates Maven with the company's Nexus Professional enterprise repository manager; Sonatype's Matrix, which is the company's rendition of the Hudson open source continuous integration project; and m2eclipse, for visual management of Maven. m2eclipse features a series of IDE plug-ins for working with Maven. An onboarding capability in the suite allows developers to fashion a custom development environment via single click of a button. The environment can include plug-ins, source code branches, and continuous integration jobs

BREDEX GmbH announced today that core parts of GUIdancer, their award-winning automated functional testing tool, are to be released as an open source project within the Eclipse Foundation, under the name "Jubula".

Ever wonder what are the most popular Eclipse plugins? The Eclipse Marketplace is keeping track of the number of times developers install different solutions from the Marketplace Client. The data from last 4+ plus months starts to show what are the most popular Eclipse solutions. Here are the top 10 for the last 30 days and Alltime (since the client was launched as part of Helios)

Innovations Software Technology Corp. (Bosch Group), a leading provider of Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) software and Financial Industry Solutions, announces the release of Visual Rules Version 5.0 on November 11, 2010. Visual Rules, the premier BRM platform, now delivers new, web-based tools for business users. Additionaly, there is full support for mastering the rule change, test, and deployment processes.

Perforce Software released P4Eclipse, its new software configuration management (SCM) integration for the Eclipse Framework. Formerly named P4WSAD, P4Eclipse integrates Perforce's version management system with Eclipse's powerful IDE and features two new visual tools: Merge Quest and Folder Diff. Merge Quest models current codeline and branch strategies at a glance, and gives better visibility into potential integrations while Folder Diff is valuable for diagnosing the cause of bugs in continuous integration environments.

The Eclipse Day 2010 in Rome, the first event taking place in Italy focusing on the enterprise adoption of Eclipse-based solutions, has turned out to be a successful event. 150 people coming from various sectors have followed the different presentations. Two interesting use cases on service-oriented architectures based on Eclipse solutions have been presented by testimonials of the Veneto Region and DHL Deutsche Post.

Essentially Virgo is the culmination of 3 years of work in developing an application server based entirely on OSGi and exposing OSGi for use by applications. Virgo started inside SpringSource as the dm Server project which was licensed under the GNU Public License and shipped two major versions. About a year ago we started donating the codebase to Eclipse as the Virgo project licensed under the much more liberal Eclipse Public License.

The Eclipse Foundation has made the area of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) a strategic topic and has created a new top level project for application lifecycle tools. The Mylyn project will now become the home for related areas such as the management of tasks, contexts, software configurations and builds, as well as for reviews and documentations.

Coming from a .NET background, I love the Visual Studio debugger. I can stop code execution at any time and look at the values of any of the variables. There's none of this dumping huge arrays to the web page and examining the output. I've wanted to set up a debugger for Drupal with Eclipse for a long time now, and setup instructions vary wildly. Here's my take on it.

Curious what it’s like to develop tools and IDEs with Eclipse? In this episode, Greg Amerson goes into the details of how you get started and what to expect:

"Congratulations to Genuitec for its unwavering support of the Eclipse community. Pulse, like many other powerful Eclipse-based technologies, continues to attract world-class developers to the Eclipse platform," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. "As we continuously enhance our code base and march toward Eclipse 3.7 next summer, we’re pleased that Genuitec will continue to support developers using Eclipse with its Pulse management software."

Here at Google, we have engineers using Eclipse every day to build our external and internal products, as well as engineers building and releasing Eclipse tools. Earlier this year, we announced Eclipse Labs, which is “a single place where anyone can start and maintain their open source projects based on the Eclipse platform with just a few clicks.� Since we use Eclipse so much here at Google, hosting Eclipse Day at the Googleplex is one way of giving back to the community and providing an environment for Eclipse contributors and users to network and share ideas.

Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g aims to help accelerate Java development tasks. Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse is a free set of Eclipse-based plug-ins that enables developers to build Java EE and Web Services applications for the Oracle Fusion Middleware platform where Eclipse is the preferred Integrated Development Environment (IDE).