Eclipse Press Releases

The Eclipse Foundation congratulates the winners of the annual Eclipse Community Awards, which recognize the top individuals, projects and technologies in the ecosystem. Recipients were honored at an awards ceremony March 21 on the opening day of EclipseCon 2011.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce that developers may now sign-up for access to a beta version of the OrionHub service, a hosted implementation of Orion. Orion is a new Eclipse initiative to define a platform for building and integrating web development tools. An early release of Orion provides web developers with an editor for JavaScript, HTML and CSS that runs in popular browsers and the ability to easily link with popular web-based tools.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the IBM Watson project is coming to EclipseCon 2011. 'What is Watson' will be a keynote presentation featuring the technologies that power Watson.

The finalist for the Eclipse Community Awards 2011 have now been announced. Congratulations to all the nominees and finalists. Winners will be announced March 21 at EclipseCon 2011.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce a special Eclipse Pavillion at the upcoming CeBIT trade show which will showcase technology and solutions available from the Eclipse community.

Nominations for the Eclipse Community Awards are complete and voting has opened for the individual and project category nominees. Congratulations to all the worthy candidates!

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the Gold Sponsors for EclipseCon 2011, the annual Eclipse community conference scheduled to be held March 21-24 in Santa Clara, CA. CloudSoft, IBM, Jasmine Conseil, Oracle, Sonatype and Xored have all agreed to be gold sponsors for the conference.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the technical program for EclipseCon 2011. The 4-day conference programm will feature 20 in-depth tutorials and over 100 sessions convering a wide range of topics, including Eclipse Modeling, OSGi, EclipseRT, mobile development, Eclipse 4 and much more.

The EclipseCon program committee is holding another series of auditions on December 15, 2010. If you're interested in speaking at EclipseCon, the audition sessions are your chance to present a short version of your talk proposal to the program committee and the Eclipse community. These auditions are your last chance to demonstrate ideas that the words in your submission couldn't fully capture. The winning audition will be given a speaking slot at EclipseCon. See More

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the release of Eclipse Virgo 2.1, a light-weight application server for deploying applications based on OSGi. Eclipse Virgo was created in March 2010 and is based on the code contribution of VMware's SpringSource dm Server product. This is the first official release of this project since becoming an Eclipse project.

EclipseDay in Valencia is being held in Spain on November 30 - December 1. This two-day event will bring together the Spanish community of Eclipse users and developers from a wide range of academic, institutional and business backgrounds. The main theme of the conference is Modeling, Methodologies and Model Driven Development. There will also be other topics related to Eclipse projects.

The European Software Institute-Technalia is pleased to announce Eclipse Embedded Day Spain, which takes place November 9, 2010. The event is a day-long conference for technical experts, software developers, Eclipse users and researchers from the Spanish embedded systems community.

Eclipse Day Paris takes place November 5, 2010 and is a day-long event to explore Eclipse projects and topics for the French community. The event is ideal for IT decision makers, software architects and process and methods engineers that are interested in using Eclipse.

During the month of November, the Eclipse community will be hosting DemoCamps in cities around the world. For this series, the Foundation is introducing a new program to reach out to the academic and student communities. Building on the success of our regular DemoCamp series, we invite university students and professors to organize Campus DemoCamps.

The Eclipse Helios service release, SR1, is now available for download. Updated packages are available on eclipse.org/downloads

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the keynotes and technical program for the upcoming fifth annual Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE) conference. ESE is the annual Eclipse European community event planned for November 2-4, 2010 in Ludwigsburg Germany.

Eclipse Day in Rome is being held on October 5, 2010. It is the first event taking place in Italy that is focused on the enterprise adoption of Eclipse-based solutions. The main topics that Eclipse Day in Rome will explore are service-oriented architectures, integration and interoperability domains, and there will be specific use cases from the Eclipse ecosystem.

The Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse member companies are pleased to announce the fall 2010 training class series. The training is an excellent opportunity for software developers and architects to learn more about Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), BIRT and Modeling technologies. Eclipse experts will lead the sessions, providing practical experience through classroom instruction and hands-on labs. Virtual and on-site classes have been scheduled in several countries from September 20 to November 5, 2010.

Along with sponsors including Actuate, BandXI, EclipseSource, Oracle and Open Source for America, the Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce both the Eclipse Government Day and Eclipse Enterprise Days.