Eclipse News

To address their unique open source tooling objectives, CERN needed a solution to facilitate rapid tooling support for control systems of the Large Hadron Collider [LHC].

The Eclipse Foundation has launched a new industry working group to support user driven development of location aware systems. Read the press release to find out more.

The Amazon Mobile App SDK Eclipse Plugin (beta) allows you to rapidly and reliably integrate Amazon APIs into your Android projects, speeding up development and cutting down on project setup time.

The Virgo team would be grateful if you could take the Virgo community survey before the deadline of February 14 2013.

Nominations are closed for the Eclipse Community Awards. Find out who the nominees are and vote now!

The Eclipse Foundation is organizing a special 1-day Open Source Executive Summit, at EclipseCon, for IT executives interested in learning more about open source software.

Hudson 3.0 is now available, including new features to simplify installation and management.

Nominations are now open for the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors. To nominate someone as a committer or sustaining member representative, send email to elections@eclipse.org.

EclipseCon and ALM Connect will feature keynote speakers from Redmonk, Forrester Research, Twitter, GitHub and Oracle.

All eclipse.org service will be offline on February 9, 2013 while our servers are moved to a new facility.

As announced in our last blog post we are now ready with the crowdwriting setup of the Eclipse Scout book. The goal of the Scout book is to significantly lower the entry barrier into Eclipse Scout. That’s why this book is primarily targetet at Eclipse beginners. To start working with the book, we only assume a meaningful understanding of the Java language and hands on experience covering the Java SE.

SAP AG announced on the 16th December that its NetWeaver Cloud product, a Java-based platform-as-a-service, has achieved Java EE 6 Web Profile Compatibility.

The technical program for the upcoming EclipseCon 2013 conference had been announced. The conference is being held March 25-28, 2013 in Boston, MA and will be co-located with the new Agile ALM Connect conference and the annual OSGi DevCon.

The program has been announced for the second annual ALM Connect conference, co-located with EclipseCon 2013. ALM Connect focuses on connecting the tools, agile methods and people across the software development lifecycle.

Thank you to the organizers, speakers and attendees for another great series of DemoCamps!

Nominations are now open for the Eclipse Community Awards 2013! Nominate an individual, a project and or a technology. Deadline for nominations is January 24, 2013.

Mira Mezini, Informatik-Professorin an der TU Darmstadt, wird mit der höchstdotierten EU-Forschungsförderung ausgezeichnet. Der Europäischen Forschungsrat (European Research Council) gewährt Mezini einen "Advanced Grant" in Höhe von 2,3 Millionen Euro, den sie für die Erforschung grundlegend neuer Programmierkonzepte beim Cloud Computing aufwenden will.

Next weeks' DemoCamp will take place in Munich, Germany on Dec. 5.

The design contest is now closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted a design.

Next weeks' DemoCamps include Berlin on Nov. 26, Bucharest on Nov. 28, Kassel and Boston on Nov. 29, and Vienna on Nov. 30.