Eclipse Press Releases

Today, the Eclipse community celebrates five years as an open source project. Eclipse has grown from its roots as a Java IDE project to become a universal development platform for building and deploying software. There are now 66 open source projects at Eclipse, generating millions of downloads. It is estimated that more than 1,300 Eclipse based products are now available.

Eclipse is getting ready to celebrate its 5th birthday on November 7th. To celebrate, a number of activities are being organized for the Eclipse community.

We are re-designing the eclipse.org home page. The intention is to make it easier for our user community to find relevant information about the Eclipse projects and also make it easier to download.

Right now we have a beta version of the home page that will be displayed on a random basis to about 25% of the home page visitors. We have also opened a bug to collect feedback. Please let us know what you like and dislike about the home page.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Congratulations to all the winners!

Congratulations to all the winners!

Participate at the Eclipse Summit in Esslingen, October 11-12th, 2006! The Eclipse Summit Europe, presented by the Eclipse Foundation is a unique event here in Central Europe. In addition to a variety of opportunities for networking with other members of the eclipse community, the program features tracks and events targetted for all parts of the community.

Registration deadline for Eclipse Membership Meeting and Marketing Seminar is 5pm EDT, September 18th, 2006.

The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal development platform, today announced that it has approved the creation of the Aperi Storage Management Framework Project. The Aperi Project, which was proposed in June 2006, will give customers more choices for deploying open-storage infrastructure software - based on an industry-stand ard framework developed by the open source community.

We would like to get your feedback on Eclipse Plugin Central (EPIC). EPIC is a portal for all things in the Eclipse ecosystem and we are looking to make it better. Please take the time to comple the online survey between now and September 20, 2006. For everyone that completes the survey we will enter you into a draw for a free iPod or one of four Amazon $100 gift certificates.

Eclipse Foundation today announced a recent Evans Data Survey confirms a significant increase in the adoption of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) by Eclipse users. Approximately 22% of the survey respondents indicated they were building rich client applications based on Eclipse RCP; an increase of over 130% based on a previous 2005 study. The survey also indicates strong future growth and interest in Eclipse RCP, with 68% of respondents indicating they will be using it in the next six months.

The Eclipse Foundation is hosting a party at the Eclipse World conference on Sept. 6.

Die Eclipse Foundation kuendigte heute das gleichzeitigen Release von zehn Eclipse Open-Source-Projekten an. Dieses besondere Release-Ereignis namens Callisto ist eines der groessten Multi-Projekt-Releases, das je eine Open-Source-Community unternommen hat. Die Eclipse Foundation bietet mit "Callisto" die synchrone Einfuehrung von zehn Einzelprojekten, die Anwendern, vor allem auch Einsteigern, die Einfuehrung von offenen Werkzeugen erleichtern.

The Eclipse Foundation today issued a press release announcing the upcoming release of Callisto on June 30, 2006.
More information about Callisto can be found at www.eclipse.org/callisto

The Callisto RC4a release is now available for download and testing.

To access the Callisto RC4a projects, you must first download the latest download.eclipse.org. Remember that the Callisto Great Bug Hunt is still on. Your feedback is required!

The Eclipse Foundation today launched a community portal to promote the adoption of Eclipse-based commercial products, complementary open source projects and Eclipse-related training, support and services. The portal, Eclipse Plug-in Central ( EPIC), makes it easier than ever for developers, software vendors and enterprises to find high quality open source and commercial plug-ins, tools and add-on services to enhance their Eclipse development. The EPIC portal will be a key part of the Eclipse Foundation’s effort to promote and grow the overall Eclipse ecosystem.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the creation of a new top-level project, called the Eclipse Modeling Project. The new project will focus on the evolution and promotion of model-based development technologies within the Eclipse community. Richard Gronback of Borland Software and Ed Merks of IBM were selected as project co-leaders, and are teaming to continue to advance Eclipse modeling technologies and to drive adoption of open standards related to software modeling.

We are having an Eclipse party at JavaOne. If you are planning to attend JavaOne, this is your opportunity to meet other people in the Eclipse Community. The party will happen, Wednesday, May 17 form 7:00-10:00pm at the Thirsty Bear Brewing Company (www.thirstybear.com). This is just down the street from the Moscone Center. If you are interested in attending, please send an e-mail to thirstybear@eclipse.org to be added to the guest list.

The Eclipse Foundation today announced new project initiatives and releases for the Device Software Development Platform (DSDP) and C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) Projects, both increasingly popular with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and vendors of real-time operating systems (RTOSs), software development tools, and electronic design automation (EDA) tools. These new initiatives further extend the Eclipse ecosystem into the embedded and device software markets.