Eclipse News

With EclipseCon Europe fast approaching we wanted to have some cool demos to show off Orion that were a little out of the ordinary. Given that Orion can provide a UI to the file system of an underlying installation it seemed a natural fit to get it running on a headless Raspberry Pi.

The second issue of the EclipseCon Europe Newsletter has been published. You can read it online here.

Eclipse Orion, the foundation's latest venture aims to create an web IDE, stocked with tools for developing with JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. It's a completely separate outlet from Eclipse's successful Java IDE - a new codebase, adopting the motto - "Tools for the web, on the webâ".

Ralph Müller's blog post provides an easy way for Eclipse community members to help make EclipseCon Europe / OSGi Community Event a successful event.

Actuate, The BIRT Company™, is hosting one-day events in both San Francisco (Nov 8) and New York City (Nov 14) to provide insights into the future of data visualization, Big Data and business analytics that are available today in ActuateOne. These free events are open to anyone with experience or interest in BIRT.

The early registeration deadline for EclipseCon Europe is September 30. Register today to qualify for the discounted price.

EclipseCon 2013 is scheduled for March 25-28 in Boston, MA. The conference call for papers is now open. Everyone is invited to submit a speaking proposal.

The Eclipse Finance Day will be held October 16, 2012 in Zurich Switzerland. The details agenda and registration information are now available.

DevBoost is happy to announce the release of the open-source build tool BuildBoost for Eclipse, OSGi and Java developers. BuildBoost was originally developed for Eclipse-based tools and is now used to build, integrate and deliver multiple open-source tools such as HEDL, JUnitLoop, JaMoPP and EMFText.

The Eclipse member companies are pleased to announce the Fall 2012 Training Series. We are pleased to introduce two new courses, Eclipse4 RCP and Building OSGI/RCP with Maven/Tycho.

Machine-2-Machine (M2M) or the Internet of Things (IoT) is a technology area and industry that is growing very quickly, has a lot of great potential but I am not sure is understood very well by the software industry.

Codan is the Eclipse CDT (C/C++ Development Tooling) built-in code analysis framework for C/C++ projects. Codan provides infrastructure to perform static code analysis and comes with ready-to-use problem checkers. With the Eclipse Juno release, Codan was extended to enable developers to automatically execute external code analysis tools.

At Architexa we have been working very hard to help developers examine code and its architecture. In expanding this effort, effective immediately, the Architexa tool suite is available for free.

We are proud to announce that the newest major release of our Eclipse-based developer tooling is now available. This is a major release not only in terms new features but because of other serious changes like componentization, open-sourcing and the fact that for the first time we are making multiple distributions available, each tailored for a different kind of developer.

Nobody can really accuse the new Machine-To-Machine (M2M) Industry Working Group of not being productive. Yet another Eclipse project proposal has emerged, hoping to sit alongside messaging protocol project Paho and M2M tools project Koneki.

Squish for Java is the leading functional, cross-platform GUI and regression testing tool for creating and executing automated GUI tests for Java SWT/RCP and AWT/Swing applications.

I’m happy to announce that the paper version of the Eclipse 4 Application Development book has been published. The Kindle version has also been updated. Whoever has already the “Early access version� for the Kindle should get an update soon. Unfortunately Amazon takes a few days to process the update to existing Kindle readers.

Chronon Systems and BREDEX (the company behind Jubula), have joined forces to bring you the best of both testing and debugging worlds.

We are pleased to announce the release of GUIdancer 6.0.1 and Jubula 1.2.1, as well as the successful participation of Jubula in the Eclipse Juno release. GUIdancer and Jubula now contain support for Chronon DVR, which can record the activities of a program to allow post-hoc debugging.

This weeks' camps include Dresden on July 4 and Krakow on July 5.