Eclipse News

Thank you Friends of Helios!

Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 13:45 by EclipseWeb Web
A big thank you to all 487 of our Friends of Helios. The funds raised will be used to help support the Eclipse community. Your generousity is very much appreciated - Helios wouldn't be the same without you!

Eclipse 4.0 SDK released for early adopters

Thursday, July 29, 2010 - 10:35 by EclipseWeb Web
The Eclipse Foundation has announced the official availability of version 4 of Eclipse SDK. With this new generation of the Eclipse development environment, the Eclipse developers are aiming to modernise the IDE's underlying architecture to include contemporary features such as a model-based user interface framework, CSS-based declarative styling of the UI and a services oriented programming model for consuming Eclipse provided services. A more modern look and feel for the workbench has also been incorporated along with binary API compatibility with previous releases to make migration simpler.

Eclipse SDK 4.0 Now Available for Early Adopters

Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 15:44 by EclipseWeb Web
The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of Eclipse SDK 4.0, the next generation Eclipse platform. Eclipse has a very large and successful ecosystem of plugin providers and RCP application developers. Eclipse 4.0 introduces new features that make it easier for the members of the ecosystem to build and assemble Eclipse plugins and RCP applications.

Attend Eclipse Testing Day in Darmstadt

Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 14:17 by EclipseWeb Web
Bredex, MicroDoc and the Eclipse Foundation are pleased to announce Eclipse Testing Day in Darmstadt, which takes place September 8, 2010. Eclipse Testing Day is a day-long event for technical developers, testers, architects and managers to learn more about testing with Eclipse and OSGi technology.

nWire Software Joins the Eclipse Foundation

Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 16:02 by EclipseWeb Web
nWire Software focuses on building tools for the Eclipse IDE (Integrated Development Environment), including nWire for Java and nWire for PHP: a real time code analysis tools, offering code exploration, search and visualization. nWire accelerates development by helping developers navigate through their code and better understand the architecture of their application. It can dramatically reduce the learning curve for developers entering a large code base. nWire is based on the standard Eclipse IDE toolset and smoothly integrates with the platform.

Eclipse and Java 6u21 problems

Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 09:56 by EclipseWeb Web
Oracle recently released Java 6 update 21 which had a small but innocuous change in the way that the java.dll was created. Unfortunately, this change impacted Eclipse's startup, causing more problems for Eclipse than NetBeans ever had under Sun.

Application Development: 25 Best and Brightest Eclipse Development Projects

Monday, July 12, 2010 - 09:39 by EclipseWeb Web
With the recent release (June 23) of the Eclipse Foundation's 39-project Helios release train, eWEEK has decided to take a look at what many in the Eclipse community view as some of the top projects coming out of the organization. Eclipse is an open-source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. Eclipse started as a Java IDE, but has since grown to be much, much more.

EGL Means Business

Monday, July 12, 2010 - 09:38 by EclipseWeb Web
EGL is a higher-level programming language designed for simplifying development of modern business applications and services. EGL code compiles into COBOL, Java, and JavaScript, which means it can be deployed to a wide variety of environments. EGL frees developers to focus on the business problem rather than on the details of the target runtime platforms and associated middleware. EGL is ideal for business-oriented development teams that value ease of learning and need to quickly deliver modern applications and services.

Excelsior JET Supports New Eclipse RCP 3.6 (Helios)

Monday, July 5, 2010 - 10:07 by EclipseWeb Web
Excelsior LLC today announced support for Eclipse 3.6 Helios in Excelsior JET, an application hardening solution for protection of code and data in safety-critical Eclipse RCP applications.

GUIdancer 4.2 released!

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 09:45 by EclipseWeb Web
Version 4.2 of GUIdancer is now available for download. Highlights of the new release include support for applications written with Eclipse 3.6 (Helios) as well as various new options to analyse and debug tests.

Take more note when Eclipse code drops on schedule

Friday, June 25, 2010 - 14:49 by EclipseWeb Web
So with Eclipse’ Helios dropping yesterday, right on schedule (even with everyone else watching the U.S.-Algeria game) it’s worth noting that this is the seventh straight year that the code has arrived on precisely the day it was supposed to.

Helios Release Delivers 39 Open Source Projects for Eclipse IDE

Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 15:52 by EclipseWeb Web
For the past seven years, the Eclipse Foundation has presided over a coordinated release train of Eclipse projects. This year, the Eclipse Helios release train continues the tradition, providing 39 different open source projects and over 33 million lines of code. The Helios project tally improves on the 33 project included with 2009's Eclipse Galileo release train.

Eclipse 3.6 Helios en images

Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 15:52 by EclipseWeb Web
Comme chaque année, la communauté Eclipse effectue la sortie groupée de ses principaux projets. La cuvée 2010, baptisée Helios, est dès à présent disponible au téléchargement.

Eclipse project releases major update of open source IDE

Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 10:46 by EclipseWeb Web
This is the seventh consecutive year that the Eclipse community has undertaken a coordinated release of the core components and packages. The 2010 release, which is codenamed Helios, includes 39 individual projects and 12 separate packages. The packages are available for download from the Eclipse Web site.

"Besides the feat of coordinating such a large development effort, Helios introduces important innovations in areas such as Git support, Linux development and JavaScript support," said Eclipse Foundation executive director Mike Milinkovich in a statement.

Eclipse Helios Simultaneous Release

Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 10:46 by EclipseWeb Web
The Eclipse foundation today announced the release of Eclipse Helios, bringing 39 different projects to the same station for the seventh annual release train. The Eclipse projects are managed in an agile fashion, releasing seven milestone builds throughout the year and then a number of release candidates in the weeks leading up to June each year. Instead of varying the delivery dates, the Eclipse projects vary the content in each milestone whilst focussing on the quality and backward compatibility.

Eclipse Helios technologies arrive on the release train

Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 10:45 by EclipseWeb Web
Just as late December brings Christmas, late June brings the annual "release train" from the Eclipse Foundation, and this year's train features the simultaneous release of project upgrades and new projects from 39 project groups.

Featuring more than 33 million lines of code based on the work of 490 developers, the Helios release on Wednesday is the largest ever from the seven-year-old release train series.

froglogic Releases Automated GUI Testing Tool Squish 4.0

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 10:51 by EclipseWeb Web
froglogic GmbH today announced that Squish 4.0 � a major new release of its leading, cross platform and cross technology GUI test automation tool � is now available.

Eclipse Helios Annual Release Train Has Arrived

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 10:00 by EclipseWeb Web
Today the Eclipse community delivers its annual release train, a coordinated release of the major Eclipse projects. For the seventh year in a row, the 2010 release train, code named Helios, arrives on time and is now available for download.

Freescale unveils Eclipse based development tools

Monday, June 21, 2010 - 14:22 by EclipseWeb Web
Freescale Semiconductor, announced the launch of its CodeWarrior 10 development suites, based on open-source Eclipse technology for helping streamline embedded software development.