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Excelsior LLC today announced that its Excelsior JET 7.6, a solution for the protection of code and data in safety-critical Eclipse RCP applications, supports the latest versions of the Eclipse RCP platform found in Eclipse SDK 3.7 and 4.1.

Version 2 of the debugger supports post execution logging, meaning that programmers now can "insert" logging statements into code after the application has already run. Because Chronon does not actually run the application, but simply shifts it from one state into another, post execution logging has an extra advantage compared to traditional logging. The results are instant. Even if your program ran for 5 hours and you put a logging statement on a line that is normally hit after 4 hours, Chronon will instantly show you the results.

Building an Eclipse RCP project can be a complex undertaking. Some new tools make it a lot easier.

Nuxeo, the provider of an open source content management platform for business applications, today announced the availability of the Nuxeo Integrated Development Environment (IDE), a plugin that brings support into Eclipse for the Nuxeo Platform, facilitating customization for developers, whether they are new to the Nuxeo technology or experts.

Following the successful release of the Eclipse Jubula package on Friday 23rd September, BREDEX GmbH is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the latest versions of Jubula and GUIdancer as standalone applications. GUIdancer version 5.2 can be downloaded from the BREDEX website, and Jubula 1.1 is available via the Eclipse Jubula project page. The new versions offer early warning for component recognition problems, improved refactoring options, as well as new options for dealing with applications.

Actuate is hosting a contest for developers to extend BIRT. An iPad 2 will be awarded to the best four BIRT plug-in submissions made to BIRT Exchange by October 15, 2011. Submitters retain full ownership of their code and a large number of suggested projects are available on…

The stereotypical image of an open source project is a bunch of hackers working in dark rooms, scratching their itches and releasing software “when it is ready.� Of course, this is far from reality for many of the mainstream, mature open source communities like Linux, Mozilla, Eclipse and others. These open source communities have very mature and sophisticated release processes that deliver new updates in a very predictable manner and are the envy of the software industry, including commercial software vendors.

Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq:CPWR), the technology performance company, today announced a major upgrade to its leading test data management solution. Test Data Privacy 3.1 greatly simplifies the creation and disguising of test data in non-production environments, significantly lowering the total cost of an enterprise-wide data privacy implementation.

"Yatta!" Federal Minister of Economics and Technology Philipp Rösler awarded the German software and consulting company Yatta Solutions as most successful start-up in information and communication technologies (ICT) of the year. "The winners symbolize the creativity, capability and prospects of young ICT companies in Germany", said Federal Minister Rösler.

The team of committers has expanded considerably and, although the team is now distributed geographically, we have a great working relationship. I'm delighted that these projects are now community collaborations rather than the work of a single vendor.
The theme of Virgo 3.0 is better integration with EclipseRT technologies. To that end, we have created a Jetty variant of the Virgo web server and have switched from Felix to Equinox implementations of some OSGi services.

Chronon Systems has announced a preview of Chronon Recording Server.
The Chronon Server records the internal state of your application while it's being executed and saves it to a 'recording' file. The recording can then be used to play back the entire execution of the Java program on any machine, without the need for the original environment. Thus it's almost like a "DVR for Java programs".

Tasktop Technologies, creators of Eclipse Mylyn and the leader in Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) developer tools and interoperability, today announced Tasktop Sync, a new product that allows IT organizations to synchronize existing ALM servers from multiple vendors and open source projects.

Tasktop Technologies, creators of the Eclipse Mylyn open source tools and a leader in Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) developer tools and interoperability, today announced Tasktop Dev 2.1, the latest version of its award-winning developer tools. Tasktop Dev 2.1 builds on the recently released Eclipse Mylyn 3.6 release with several newly available and updated connectors, new developer-centric, cross-repository Kanban and story board planning, and the ability to access HP ALM and HP Quality Center from Linux and Mac desktops.

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. Squish stands out from other GUI testing tools by giving test engineers the freedom to record and write tests using familiar scripting languages such as JavaScript, Perl, Python, and Tcl.

ZeroTurnaround, winner of the 2011 “Most Innovative Java Technology� JAX Innovation Award for JRebel, and Genuitec, a founding member of the Eclipse Foundation, are proud to announce the release of “JRebel for MyEclipse.�
JRebel (formerly JavaRebel) is a specialized plug-in that enables developers to see the effects of code changes during development without the need to build or redeploy their application.

Jaspersoft, maker of the world's most widely used business intelligence (BI) software, today released Jaspersoft Studio, the most complete open source BI design environment for Eclipse. Bringing new BI capabilities to Eclipse Java developers, Jaspersoft Studio provides a complete open source platform that allows Eclipse Java developers to build, secure, and share BI reports for free.

Java's open source ecosystem is strong and healthy, one of the primary reasons for our creation of OSCON Java. Over the last decade, several projects have traveled beyond mere adoption and had effects dominating the Java world, into software development in general, and some even further into the daily lives of users.

CloudBees, the Java PaaS innovation leader, today announced that it has joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Solutions Member and the General Availability of the CloudBees Toolkit for Eclipse plug-in to provide Java developers with a more integrated process for developing, building and deploying their cloud applications. The CloudBees Toolkit for Eclipse delivers the power of the CloudBees Platform inside Eclipse, bringing control of cloud-based Jenkins and application deployment directly into the integrated development environment (IDE) of choice for Java developers.

froglogic GmbH today announced support for the automated testing of Java Rich Client Platform (RCP) applications based on the new "Indigo" Eclipse 3.7 release.

Actuate (NASDAQ: BIRT) has announced support and services for Hadoop and MapReduce in the new release of BIRT 3.7, the company’s open-source enterprise business intelligence toolset.