Eclipse News

Eclipse has long been an essential tool for developers. With the arrival of the RCP project for Eclipse, the platform moved from just being an IDE into the new category of application platform.

Join us for a code intensive webinar that demonstrates ease of development with Java EE 6, GlassFish and Eclipse. Java EE 6 introduces a number of features that significantly ease the development of web applications. GlassFish is the world's most popular open source application server and currently the number one Java EE 6 compliant application server. Eclipse is the development IDE of choice for developers worldwide. Learn how they can be used together to build web applications and REST services.

The EclipseCon program committee is holding another series of auditions on December 15, 2010. If you're interested in speaking at EclipseCon, the audition sessions are your chance to present a short version of your talk proposal to the program committee and the Eclipse community. These auditions are your last chance to demonstrate ideas that the words in your submission couldn't fully capture. The winning audition will be given a speaking slot at EclipseCon. See More

Le patron de la fondation Eclipse, Mike Milinkovitch, s’est livré au jeu des questions-réponses du MagIT lors de la journée Eclipse Day Paris le 5 novembre dernier. Une occasion pour lui de revenir sur les prochaines orientations de la fondation, ses enjeux, ainsi que sur les relations, aujourd’hui tumultueuses, qui unissent Java à Oracle.

Leveraging the Eclipse IDE, the Sonatype Professional suite integrates Maven with the company's Nexus Professional enterprise repository manager; Sonatype's Matrix, which is the company's rendition of the Hudson open source continuous integration project; and m2eclipse, for visual management of Maven. m2eclipse features a series of IDE plug-ins for working with Maven. An onboarding capability in the suite allows developers to fashion a custom development environment via single click of a button. The environment can include plug-ins, source code branches, and continuous integration jobs

BREDEX GmbH announced today that core parts of GUIdancer, their award-winning automated functional testing tool, are to be released as an open source project within the Eclipse Foundation, under the name "Jubula".

Ever wonder what are the most popular Eclipse plugins? The Eclipse Marketplace is keeping track of the number of times developers install different solutions from the Marketplace Client. The data from last 4+ plus months starts to show what are the most popular Eclipse solutions. Here are the top 10 for the last 30 days and Alltime (since the client was launched as part of Helios)

Innovations Software Technology Corp. (Bosch Group), a leading provider of Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) software and Financial Industry Solutions, announces the release of Visual Rules Version 5.0 on November 11, 2010. Visual Rules, the premier BRM platform, now delivers new, web-based tools for business users. Additionaly, there is full support for mastering the rule change, test, and deployment processes.

Perforce Software released P4Eclipse, its new software configuration management (SCM) integration for the Eclipse Framework. Formerly named P4WSAD, P4Eclipse integrates Perforce's version management system with Eclipse's powerful IDE and features two new visual tools: Merge Quest and Folder Diff. Merge Quest models current codeline and branch strategies at a glance, and gives better visibility into potential integrations while Folder Diff is valuable for diagnosing the cause of bugs in continuous integration environments.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the release of Eclipse Virgo 2.1, a light-weight application server for deploying applications based on OSGi. Eclipse Virgo was created in March 2010 and is based on the code contribution of VMware's SpringSource dm Server product. This is the first official release of this project since becoming an Eclipse project.

EclipseDay in Valencia is being held in Spain on November 30 - December 1. This two-day event will bring together the Spanish community of Eclipse users and developers from a wide range of academic, institutional and business backgrounds. The main theme of the conference is Modeling, Methodologies and Model Driven Development. There will also be other topics related to Eclipse projects.

The Eclipse Day 2010 in Rome, the first event taking place in Italy focusing on the enterprise adoption of Eclipse-based solutions, has turned out to be a successful event. 150 people coming from various sectors have followed the different presentations. Two interesting use cases on service-oriented architectures based on Eclipse solutions have been presented by testimonials of the Veneto Region and DHL Deutsche Post.

The European Software Institute-Technalia is pleased to announce Eclipse Embedded Day Spain, which takes place November 9, 2010. The event is a day-long conference for technical experts, software developers, Eclipse users and researchers from the Spanish embedded systems community.

The EclipseCon 2011 Call for Participation is now open. Everyone is encouraged to submit a session proposal before the November 17, 2010 deadline.

Eclipse Day Paris takes place November 5, 2010 and is a day-long event to explore Eclipse projects and topics for the French community. The event is ideal for IT decision makers, software architects and process and methods engineers that are interested in using Eclipse.

Eclipse Summit Europe starts in 2 weeks in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Register today and plan to attend the annual Eclipse community conference.

Essentially Virgo is the culmination of 3 years of work in developing an application server based entirely on OSGi and exposing OSGi for use by applications. Virgo started inside SpringSource as the dm Server project which was licensed under the GNU Public License and shipped two major versions. About a year ago we started donating the codebase to Eclipse as the Virgo project licensed under the much more liberal Eclipse Public License.

The Eclipse Enterprise Modeling Day is scheduled for October 28, 2010 in Zurich Switzerland. The purpose of the event is for large organizations to share experiences and best practices for using Eclipse modeling technology. More details here.

During the month of November, the Eclipse community will be hosting DemoCamps in cities around the world. For this series, the Foundation is introducing a new program to reach out to the academic and student communities. Building on the success of our regular DemoCamp series, we invite university students and professors to organize Campus DemoCamps.

The Eclipse Helios service release, SR1, is now available for download. Updated packages are available on eclipse.org/downloads