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The momentum behind the OSGi (Open Services Gateway Initiative)-based modular approach to developing and deploying applications and libraries got some additional horsepower last week when Oracle and SpringSource announced that they would be the first two companies backing a newly proposed Eclipse project.

Tasktop Technologies, the company behind the open-source Mylyn framework, has introduced a new version of its namesake product that provides what founder Mik Kersten calls the "missing link" between software development delivery and agile project tracking and management.

Genuitec has announced the release of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 8.0. The latest release is built on top of the brand new Eclipse Galileo version 3.5.1 and delivers the world's first debugger for Internet Explorer (IE) versions six, seven and eight that can remotely debug deployed applications.

This article demonstrates the usage of Drag and Drop in the Eclipse framework.

This article describes how to create Android applications with Eclipse.

The article is based on Eclipse 3.5 and Android 2.0.

ARM started out by using Squish for GUI testing of a proprietary debugger and an Eclipse-based IDE. The debugger was written using Qt and it was when looking for a suitable testing tool for this that ARM first came across Squish. They are now developing a new Eclipse-based debugger in Java and plan to use Squish to provide automated GUI testing for that tool.

Embedded systems and software developers juggle three critical challenges: rising design complexity, increasingly narrow time-to-market windows, and doing more with existing resources. To overcome these difficult issues, many development teams use the Eclipse open source platform for software development. One advantage of the Eclipse workspace is that it provides a highly customizable environment that can be tailored to the needs of individual software developers.

GUIdancer, Bredex GmbH's automated functional test tool, has been released in version 3.2 and is available for download. Version 3.2 contains a variety of new supported test actions, increasing the amount of tests that can be automated out-of-the-box. Using the library of GUIdancer actions, testers can create powerful, modular tests simply by dragging and dropping the required actions. Because this approach does not involve any program code, automation with GUIdancer is effective and productive from the outset.

Tasktop Technologies, creators of Eclipse Mylyn and the leading provider of task management solutions for application lifecycle management (ALM), today announced Tasktop Pro 1.6, which builds on Mylyn 3.3, the latest version of the most widely adopted ALM integration suite for the Eclipse IDE. New time-tracking support and ALM system interoperability create a complete task management layer that provides the missing link between software development delivery and agile project management.

Genuitec, LLC, a strategic member of the Eclipse Mobile Working Group, today announced a mobile news aggregation Web site. Named "Mobile Dredge," the Web site aims to collect all current and breaking news stories about mobile, mobile applications, carrier and handset maker news. Operated by Genuitec editors, Mobile Dredge promises to bring the most thoughtful, creative, and insightful news to one Web site where viewers can gain a snapshot of the mobile landscape.

Instantiations today announced new version updates to its GUI development tools, WindowBuilder Pro v7.2 and WindowTester Pro v4.0. The company will showcase its new product features at Eclipse Summit Europe, October 27-29, 2009 with a booth and several presentations. WindowTester v4.0 provides extensive improvements for test recording; fine-tuning of assertions functionality, including improved Swing assertions support; improved Linux support and preliminary support for 64-Bit Cocoa; and numerous performance enhancements.

nWire Software, Ltd., an independent software vendor offering innovative Eclipse-based tools, today announced the general availability of nWire for PHP. nWire for PHP accelerates PHP development by helping developers navigate through their code and better understand the architecture of their application. nWire was developed with support from Zend, the PHP Company, and it is the first plugin to be based on the new Zend Studio 7 and the latest Eclipse PHP Development Tools 2.1 (PDT).

The Jetty developers have released version 7 of their popular Java Servlet container. The source code for the new release is available from the Eclipse Foundation under the Eclipse Public Licence (EPL); Jetty 6 continues to be available from the Codehaus project under the Apache 2 license. Jetty 7 is the first major release of Jetty from the Eclipse Foundation since the project moved under the Eclipse umbrella.

Instantiations, Inc., today announced the release of GWT Designer 7.2, an Eclipse-based GUI creation tool for developing interactive AJAX applications. The new version adds comprehensive support for the Ext GWT (GXT) v2.0 Java library, as well as continued support for the latest releases of Google Web Toolkit (GWT) through v1.7.1, as well as a multi-page CSS Style Editor, and other CSS enhancements and speed improvements.

EclipseSource Inc, the leading provider of Eclipse runtime products and services today announced that it has received TÃœV certification of its proprietary process for validating and securing open source components. This industry-first achievement offers unprecedented protection and reassurance for organizations using open source components in their tool chain as well as those building applications on top of Eclipse and OSGi runtime technologies.

Our newest release is built to support Eclipse Galileo and delivers a powerful Java Profiler that can be used as a standalone tool outside of MyEclipse to profile any Java application, Eclipse plug-in or applet, as well as industry-leading support for the much-requested Struts 2 framework, enabling the development of enterprise-class Java Web applications.

The Eclipse open source Mylyn project is the main implementation of a task-focused user interface. Mylyn provides the skeleton on which others -- Tasktop and Sun Microsystems to date -- have built full-featured enterprise versions that implement task management via task-focused user interfaces. These tools are proving to be particularly effective in reducing information overload and improving programmer productivity

Mojo, Palm's software development kit for WebOS, includes an easy-to-install plug-in that lets developers work within the Eclipse SDK.

Today DZone have released the latest Eclipse-based Refcard, this time covering the topic of Eclipse Plug-in Development. In this card (which I wrote myself) I explain some of the main topics that can give you a headstart in creating your own Eclipse Plug-ins including how the manifests work, and how to create your own extension points.I also point out some other useful projects that exist in the Eclipse ecosystem.