Eclipse Press Releases

Eclipse Party at JavaOne

Friday, April 20, 2007 - 16:02 by EclipseWeb Web
The Eclipse Foundation is hosting a party for the Eclipse community at JavaOne. If you will be attending the conference, this is your opportunity to connect with other Eclipse fans and to have some fun. The party will happen Wednesday, May 9 from 7:00pm-10:00pm at Jillian’s (www.jilliansbilliards.com). This is just around the corner from the Moscone Center in the southwest corner of the Metreon. If you are interested in attending, please send an e-mail to JavaOneParty@eclipse.org to be added to the guest list. We look forward to seeing you there!

New Project Releases Continue to Drive Adoption of Eclipse in the Embedded and Device Development Community

Tuesday, April 3, 2007 - 10:00 by EclipseWeb Web
The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the upcoming releases of the Eclipse C/C++ IDE (CDT) 4.0 and Device Software Development Platform (DSDP) projects. These Eclipse projects represent the core technology that is being developed for the embedded and device development community and have been widely adopted by organizations across the embedded and device software market.

Eclipse Foundation Announces Initiatives for Ajax Applications and Dynamic Languages

Tuesday, March 6, 2007 - 08:00 by EclipseWeb Web
The Eclipse Foundation today announced three new project milestones that extend the Eclipse platform for Ajax applications and dynamic languages. The three projects include the Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP), the Eclipse Ajax Toolkit Framework (ATF) and the Eclipse Dynamic Language Toolkit (DLTK). These projects provide innovative new Eclipse-based technology to be utilized by Ajax developers and developers using dynamic languages such as Python, Ruby and Tcl.

Eclipse Community Awards Winners Announced

Tuesday, March 6, 2007 - 08:00 by EclipseWeb Web
The Eclipse Foundation today announced the winners of its annual Eclipse Community Awards, which recognize the top individuals, products and organizations in the Eclipse community. Recipients were honored at an awards ceremony yesterday on the opening day of EclipseCon 2007.

Doors Open for EclipseCon 2007

Tuesday, March 6, 2007 - 08:00 by EclipseWeb Web
EclipseCon 2007, the fourth annual Eclipse community conference, opens today at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. Attendees from around the world are expected to hear the latest Eclipse developments and discuss key business and technical issues facing the community. Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip Dilbert, will give the opening keynote presentation. Additional keynote addresses will be delivered by Robert “r0ml� Lefkowitz, a noted enterprise architect and systems designer, and Dr.

Nominations for the Open Source Pavilion at EclipseCon 2007

Wednesday, February 7, 2007 - 13:09 by EclipseWeb Web
The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the addition of the Open Source Pavillion at EclipseCon 2007, March 5th-8th in Santa Clara, CA. The Open Source Pavilion will showcase open source projects that support and complement the spirit of the Eclipse community. ActiveGrid and Business Objects are co-sponsoring this event at EclipseCon.

Bandit and Higgins Projects Bridge Multiple Identity Systems to Provide a Consistent Experience of Identity

Monday, January 29, 2007 - 09:30 by EclipseWeb Web
The Bandit and Eclipse Higgins Projects today announced the achievement of a key milestone in the development of open source identity services. Based on working code from the two projects and the larger community of open source developers, the teams have created a reference application that showcases open source identity services that are interoperable with Microsoft’s Windows* CardSpace* identity management system and enable Liberty Alliance-based identity federation via Novell® Access Manager.

Eclipse Foundation Launches Data Tools Platform 1.0

Tuesday, January 23, 2007 - 09:20 by EclipseWeb Web
The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal development platform, today announced the release of the Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) 1.0, a collection of extensible frameworks and exemplary tools for developing data-centric applications in the Eclipse environment. With DTP 1.0, developers can now easily leverage existing data sources, such as enterprise databases, within the extensible Eclipse Platform. Data-related applications are growing in significance, so this release meets an important development requirement in the software industry.

Gold Sponsors Announced for EclipseCon 2007

Monday, January 22, 2007 - 16:22 by EclipseWeb Web
The Eclipse Foundation today announced that Actuate, BEA Systems, Business Objects, IBM and Klocwork have signed on as Gold Sponsors for EclipseCon 2007, the annual conference that brings together the Eclipse community. Gold Sponsorship is the highest level of sponsorship for the conference. The third annual EclipseCon will be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Calif., March 5-8, 2007.

Results of Eclipse Training Survey Released

Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 13:15 by EclipseWeb Web
The Eclipse Training Working Group has completed its survey of the community and the results are available at http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Training_Working_Group
The survey was responded to by over 600 people and although its not a truly scientific sample, it does provide some very good insights into the area of Eclipse training and education which should be useful to us all.
Thanks to all the people who contributed to the development of the survey, to the community members who participated, and especially to Donald Smith who supported the Working Group in using "Survey Monkey"

Eclipse Foundation Joins Three Industry Specification Groups

Friday, January 12, 2007 - 13:40 by EclipseWeb Web
The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal software development platform, today announced it has become a member of three industry specification groups: Java Community Process (JCP), Object Management Group (OMG) and the OSGi Alliance. The Eclipse Foundation has joined these organizations to further promote the relationship between open standards and open source implementations.

2007 Eclipse Webinar Series Kickoff

Monday, January 8, 2007 - 12:00 by EclipseWeb Web
Eclipse is kicking off its webinar series with 2 events in January. Both webinars are free to attend, so please register if you are interested.

Eclipse Mylar Introduces Major New Innovation for Developer Productivity

Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 09:00 by EclipseWeb Web
The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal software development platform, today announced the release of Eclipse Mylar 1.0. Mylar is a tasked-focused user interface that enhances developer productivity by reducing information overload and enabling easy multi-tasking.

Hold the Dates for EclipseCon 2007

Tuesday, November 28, 2006 - 09:00 by EclipseWeb Web
The Eclipse Foundation announced today the keynote speakers for its fourth annual community conference, EclipseCon 2007. The conference brings together the Eclipse community to share and learn new techniques, ideas and technologies, as well as provide information about the latest developments and future plans of the Eclipse projects. The conference will be held March 5-8, 2007 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

IBM Donates Translations for Eclipse 3.2.1

Monday, November 27, 2006 - 15:55 by EclipseWeb Web
IBM is pleased to contribute translations for the Eclipse Project, the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) Project, the Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) Project, the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) Project, the Eclipse Modeling Project, the Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) Project and for several subprojects of the Eclipse Tools Project for the Callisto releases.

Eclipse Device Software Development Platform (DSDP) Announces Three Milestone Releases

Monday, November 13, 2006 - 09:50 by EclipseWeb Web
The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal software development platform, today announced three milestone releases within the Eclipse Device Software Development Platform (DSDP). Founded in 2005 as a top-level Eclipse project, the mission of DSDP is to create an open, extensible, scalable and standards-based development platform to address the needs of the device software market.