Eclipse News

Eclipse Foundation Member Companies Showcase Business Solutions in the Open Source Park at CeBIT 2012

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 16:14 by EclipseWeb Web
The Eclipse Foundation announced today that it will be at CeBIT 2012 in Hannover, Germany, with six co-operating Eclipse ecosystem members and a redesigned Eclipse Theme Island. In its 3rd year at CeBIT, the Eclipse Foundation Island provides a unique opportunity to learn about Eclipse open source software and the businesses, institutions and individual developers that make up the community.

IBM Builds Out AppDev, Management Portfolios for Mobile

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 13:49 by EclipseWeb Web
This week, IBM continues to build out its lifecycle portfolio to support mobile apps for enterprise and B2C users. To explore the import of Big Blue’s just-completed acquisition of Worklight and the beta release of IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices IDN talks with Bob Sutor, vice president for IBM’s WebSphere Foundation’s Mobile Platform.

Eclipse Board elections are now open

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 17:32 by EclipseWeb Web
The Eclipse Foundation has opened this year's elections for its board members. There are six seats on the board being elected, with three seats for elected representatives of the Committer Members (who contribute code to Eclipse projects) and three seats for the Sustaining Members (made up of of fee paying Solutions Members and Enterprise Members).

Second service release for Eclipse Indigo arrives

Monday, February 27, 2012 - 18:31 by EclipseWeb Web
The Eclipse Foundation has published the second service release (SR2) of version 3.7 of its development environment. Service releases typically don't include new features, instead focusing on addressing issues found in the previous versions.

Eclipse 4 is Coming, Are You Ready?

Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 10:28 by EclipseWeb Web
Juno, the next Eclipse release train, will be the first time the default Eclipse platform will be based on Eclipse 4. This means all the packages on the eclipse.org/download page will be based on Eclipse 4, so lots and lots of people are going to be using Eclipse 4.

Centralized Management of Code Quality

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 13:32 by EclipseWeb Web
Our vision for Agile ALM Connect is to bring together the leaders of different tools that are being used across the application lifecycle. Therefore, I was very happy that Olivier Gaudin, co-founder of the Sonar open source project, agreed to speak at Agile ALM Connect about how continuous inspection of code is an important aspect of continuous delivery.

Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) is heading to Eclipsecon!

Friday, February 17, 2012 - 09:39 by EclipseWeb Web
At Eclipsecon, SPDX Group will be hosting a “Birds of Feather�(Bof) workshop highlighting SPDX 1.0, a standard format for communicating the components, licenses, and copyrights associated with a software package.

Zeichick’s Take: Java, Java everywhere

Friday, February 17, 2012 - 09:38 by EclipseWeb Web
Would you believe that 18% of developers that SD Times surveyed said that their organizations are running J2EE 1.4 in production environments? That’s the version of the Java server-side platform that was officially released in November 2003. That shows the persistence of deployed platforms. If it ain’t broke, don’t upgrade it.

Lua Development Tools now available as a standalone product

Monday, February 13, 2012 - 15:56 by EclipseWeb Web
The Lua Development Tools (LDT), developed as part of the Eclipse Koneki project, are now available as a stand-alone development environment. LDT developer Benjamin Cabé says that the preconfigured software package is ideal for developers who are not particularly familiar with the Eclipse SDK (Software Development Kit). The standalone version is available to download for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in versions suitable for 32- and 64-bit variants of each operating system. LDT is licensed under Eclipse Public Licence.

Super-communities debuting for open source vertical supply chains

Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 15:09 by EclipseWeb Web
In a recently published report outlining key trends and challenges for the open source community, Olliance’s Andrew Aitken notes that the emergence of vertically oriented super communities such as Polarsys, for the aerospace community, and financial-industry led OpenMama, are not only indicative of the maturing of the the open source industry but the evolution of open source supply chains serving industries which share significant economies of scale, regulatory overhead, technological requirements and standards.

Eclipse Juno and the Future of the Eclipse Platform

Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 10:30 by EclipseWeb Web
Last week, the Eclipse Foundation announced the release of Eclipse Juno M5, a milestone towards this summer's combined release train. It brings new features, such as potential null pointer dereferences and leaked resources (for both Java7, where a try-with-resources can clean it up, and for Java6 using standard try/catch handling.)

Creating a build you can trust

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 10:05 by EclipseWeb Web
‘The build is broken’ is something I’ve heard too many times in my software development career. Concepts like continuous delivery and devops make it all that more important to have a build that you can trust. In the Agile ALM Connect session, Build Trust in Your Build to Deployment Flow ,Yoav Landman, founder of Artifactory, is going to demonstrate some of the techniques for using tools like Maven, Gradle and Artifactory to automate builds that release applications which are fully traceable, managed and trusted!

Dev + Ops = Getting Software Deployed Faster (DevOps)

Friday, January 27, 2012 - 11:19 by EclipseWeb Web
DevOps is one of those terms you hear a LOT about lately but I am not sure it is really well understood. However, if you are going to be successful at Agile ALM it would seem natural you would want to bring the operations side of IT closer into the development process. Puppet is one example of an open source project that is implementing some of the DevOps concepts.

Eclipse Juno's successor will be named Kepler

Friday, January 27, 2012 - 10:52 by EclipseWeb Web
The Eclipse Foundation has decided that the name of the successor to Juno, the currently in-development simultaneous release of Eclipse projects, will be Kepler. Almost half of the more than 200 participants that took part in the survey, launched in December 2011, chose the German astronomer. This is the second time an Eclipse simultaneous release has been named after an astronomer; a previous release was named Galileo.