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The Eclipse open source software development platform continues to be a hotbed for new projects and support for new environments; this year’s EclipseCon event will showcase support for new and emerging languages.

In the last number of years there has been a boom in the creation of new computer languages. Some might wonder why we need so many new languages but one thing I have found is that software developers can be very passionate about software languages.

We all like to trumpet ourselves when we predict some technology as “the next greatest thing.� It takes a special kind of character, though, to stand up and admit when you’re wrong. Well, that’s what we do today as we mark in these pages the 10th anniversary of the Eclipse project. The acknowledged Java IDE leader as well as the open-source foundation upon which numerous companies have been built, Eclipse remade the Java tools industry with the commercialization of its efforts at its very core.

The latest milestone of Eclipse Orion 0.4 M1, the web-based next-generation IDE currently under development at the Eclipse Foundation, has been announced; it now supports syntax highlighting for C, C++, C#, Clojure, CoffeeScript, Groovy, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Smalltalk and many other languages. This extensive language support is due to the addition of a CodeMirror plugin for Orion. It also supports mixed mode syntax highlighting such as JavaScript and HTML in one document.

This article is for beginners who are interested in understanding the fundamentals of Hudson plug-in development. Hudson is a popular open source continuous integration (CI) tool written purely in Java. Apart from being an open source product, the popularity of Hudson is due to its extensible nature, which uses plug-ins and the plug-in developer ecosystem.

As more and more companies move toward the benefits of in-memory processing for their large data sets, the interest in products that facilitate it is growing rapidly. Oracle Coherence stands tall over many such products in this space due to its simple interface, broad support for popular platforms (e.g. C++, .Net, Hibernate, JPA), and scalability to accommodate terabytes of data with minimal configuration.

It's an annual tradition - Eclipse's huge release train comes rolling by once a year. This June saw a blockbuster package for Java developers with Eclipse Indigo, which the Eclipse Foundation executive director Mike Milinkovich dubbed the biggest release 'in quite a few years' probably through due to the anticipation leading up to Java 7's July release.

As we head into 2012, enterprise developers will need to focus on some major themes, including the emergence of HTML5, “big data� and analytics, and Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). They should also continue to concentrate on Web, mobile and cloud development, and take advantage of advances in languages and integrated development environments (IDEs).

Many of the ECE sessions were recorded and can ve viewed on the FOSSLC site.

Using the lightweight publish/subscribe MQTT protocol, along with Java and Eclipse, Eurotech has devised an approach that makes it easier for their clients to connect Eurotech's (and other companies') boards and devices in a machine-to-machine (M2M) network.

Am 29. November veranstaltet die itemis AG ein Event, in dem spannende Themen und Erfahrungsberichte zum Thema: Xcore, Modellierung mit CDO und Xtext im Einsatz für HMI-Definition aufgegriffen werden. Erfahrungsaustausch und interessante Gespäche stehen ebenso im Fokus wie die Möglichkeit den Abend in einer lockeren und gemütlichen Runde gemeinsam ausklingen zu lassen.

Focus sur l’actualité d’Eclipse, un projet qui vient de souffler sa dixième bougie. Il est soutenu par une fondation actuellement très active dans les secteurs Java et web.

Quel est le bilan du projet 10 ans après son lancement ? Quels sont ses enjeux ? Le point avec le responsable du développement de son écosystème. Une interview réalisée à l'occasion d'Eclipse Day Paris 2011.

In a move to bring network connectivity to a wider range of devices, sensors and appliances, IBM has donated the source code of its machine-to-machine messaging software to the Eclipse Foundation, the company announced Thursday.

Auf der EclipseCon hat die Eclipse Foundation die Gründung der Polarsys-Arbeitsgruppe bekannt gegeben. Die daran beteiligten Unternehmen und Organisationen wollen Open-Source-Werkzeuge entlang des Software-Lebenszyklus von sicherheitskritischen und Embedded-Systemen bereitstellen. Sie sind vor allem für Branchen wie Luftfahrt, Militär, Verkehrswesen, Telekommunikation, Energie und Gesundheitswesen gedacht, die besondere Anforderungen an die Softwareentwicklung mitbringen.

In a move to bring network connectivity to a wider range of devices, sensors and appliances, IBM has donated the source code of its machine-to-machine messaging software to the Eclipse Foundation, the company announced Thursday.

Recently, Sierra Wireless and the Eclipse Foundation announced the creation of an M2M Industry Working Group. The group is designed to define and implement an open-standard platform for the software development tools used in developing M2M communications applications.

BREDEX GmbH and EclipseSource are pleased to announce their collaboration in the field of automated testing for AJAX and RAP applications. Over the coming months, we will be combining our expertise in testing with EclipseSource's experience and know-how in web and desktop development to provide a solution for testing Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) applications with GUIdancer.

On Thursday, October 27 at 12:00 P.M. EDT (16:00 UTC) Genuitec and ZeroTurnaround will show you the time-saving advantages and IDE advancements with JRebel for MyEclipse Blue.

Use of rich client applications based on Eclipse RCP has increased widely in recent years, both in the open source and in the commercial field. Eclipse RCP is employed more and more in sections where web clients were predominantly in use. One good example of this development is the content management system (CMS) “Sophora� from the German company subshell GmbH.