Eclipse News

Sign Up for Eclipse Training

Friday, September 25, 2009 - 14:37 by EclipseWeb Web

The Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse member companies are pleased to announce the fall 2009 training class series. The training is an excellent opportunity for software developers and architects to learn more about Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), Equinox & OSGi and Modeling technologies. Eclipse experts will lead the sessions, providing practical experience through classroom instruction and hands-on labs. Classes have been scheduled in 23 different cities around the world from October 19 to December 4, 2009.

Eclipse Gets Palm WebOS Mojo

Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 15:52 by EclipseWeb Web
Mojo, Palm's software development kit for WebOS, includes an easy-to-install plug-in that lets developers work within the Eclipse SDK.

Complete Your Eclipse Refcard Collection

Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 11:03 by EclipseWeb Web
Today DZone have released the latest Eclipse-based Refcard, this time covering the topic of Eclipse Plug-in Development. In this card (which I wrote myself) I explain some of the main topics that can give you a headstart in creating your own Eclipse Plug-ins including how the manifests work, and how to create your own extension points.I also point out some other useful projects that exist in the Eclipse ecosystem.

Eclipse & the transition to a common embedded IDE

Tuesday, September 8, 2009 - 11:41 by EclipseWeb Web
Now, one of the last holdouts - Texas Instruments - has abandoned its proprietary IDE in favor of one based on open source Eclipse. The transition is complete, with virtually every major embedded software vendor supporting their own implementation of Eclipse, including Wind River, Green Hills, QNX, Lynux Works, Rapid Logic and Mentor Graphics, among others..

New Eclipse-based Code Composer Studio IDE from Texas Instruments enables customers to develop embedded applications for less than $100

Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 11:02 by EclipseWeb Web
As software design and debugging represents the majority of development cost and time for many applications, efficient design tools play a critical role in managing project cost and deadlines. To simplify development while accelerating identification, analysis and resolution, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced the availability of Code Composer Studio v4, a major upgrade to its industry-leading integrated development environment (IDE) based on the Eclipse open source software framework (www.ti.com/ccs4-prprod).

Eclipse Web Services Tools wins a Bossie award for Best of Open Source developer tools.

Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 10:59 by EclipseWeb Web
The Web Services Tools plug-in for Eclipse -- particularly the Web Services Explorer -- makes building Web service requests as easy as filling out a form, and it's invaluable in debugging Web services applications. Point the Explorer at a service's WSDL, and it will enumerate all the services available at that endpoint. Launch a request at a service, and the Explorer displays the response in either raw or structured form.

SlickEdit Inc. Announces Release of SlickEdit Core for Eclipse Galileo

Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 10:57 by EclipseWeb Web
SlickEdit Inc., provider of the most advanced multi-platform code editors available, announces the release of SlickEdit® Core v3.5 for Eclipse™. This latest release of SlickEdit Core supports Eclipse Galileo (version 3.5) and is updated with the latest capabilities from SlickEdit 2009.

Eclipse Insurance Day

Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 08:00 by EclipseWeb Web

Eclipse Insurance Day is being held in Cologne, Germany on September 30, 2009. This full-day event will provide an opportunity for insurance experts, IT managers and software architects to exchange experiences, get an overview of the options Eclipse is offering for insurance applications, and learn how to leverage Eclipse technology and the Eclipse community.

REVIEW: Amazon's AWS Toolkit for Eclipse Makes It Easier to Develop for the Cloud

Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 14:37 by EclipseWeb Web
I’ve done a fair amount of tinkering with cloud programming during the past couple of years. With cloud programming, you can easily deploy a Web application to a cluster of servers that will be distributed and managed with the help of the cloud infrastructure. But one of the hard parts is developing the software on your local development machines and then testing it against the cloud servers.

Amazon recognized this difficulty and has created a plug-in for the Eclipse IDE called AWS (Amazon Web Services) Toolkit for Eclipse.

ThoughtWorks Studios and Tasktop Partner to Improve Agile ALM Success With Eclipse Mylyn Integration for Adaptive ALM(TM)

Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - 15:47 by EclipseWeb Web
ThoughtWorks Studios, a global leader in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM) tools and training, and Tasktop Technologies, creators of the Eclipse(TM) Mylyn ALM integration framework, today announced the ThoughtWorks Adaptive ALM Connector. Set for release with Tasktop Pro in October, the connector will help streamline software development by providing direct access to ThoughtWorks Studios' products from within the Eclipse IDE.

Perforce Software Releases Pure Java API for its Award Winning SCM System

Monday, August 24, 2009 - 10:06 by EclipseWeb Web
Perforce Software announced the release of P4Java, Perforce's pure Java API for accessing Perforce SCM services from within Java applications, servlets, plug-ins, and other Java contexts. P4Java allows developers to tightly integrate Perforce functionality into tools such as CruiseControl, Maven, and Ant, and in environments such as J2EE-based web application and web service frameworks. Perforce SCM versions and manages source code and digital assets for enterprises large and small.

Excelsior JET 6.5 MP1 Adds Supports for Galileo

Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 10:18 by EclipseWeb Web
Excelsior JET, Enterprise Edition enables protection of commercial Eclipse RCP applications against reverse engineering and tampering by compiling them down to native code executables. This fresh update adds support for Eclipse 3.5 Galileo release.

CA taps Eclipse for universal GUI

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 10:19 by EclipseWeb Web
CA has released a new Eclipse-based GUI that it says makes it easier to test and debug applications on the mainframe. The new GUI, released today, maintains all the features from the green screen, and it helps developers reuse existing mainframe application code to speed development time, the company said.

REVIEW: Eclipse 3.5's Many New Features Work Together to Make Developers More Productive

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - 17:39 by EclipseWeb Web
eWEEK Labs finds Eclipse has greatly matured from its early, much slower days. Today, the application development platform can aptly be described as powerful and feature-rich.

The recent 3.5 release of Eclipse, code-named Galileo, brings loads of new features that will help developers become even more productive

A first look at Eclipse 4

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - 10:43 by EclipseWeb Web
As is already indicated by version 0.9, which has just been released, Eclipse 4 will incorporate several familiar web technologies and put them to new uses.

The Eclipse development environment has become a very popular open source project. A flexible software tool kit, Eclipse can integrate the products of several vendors as plug-ins, for example for modelling, development and software tests; for some time now, Eclipse hasn't just been about Java.

Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11gR1 released on Eclipse 3.5 and 3.4

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - 10:43 by EclipseWeb Web
Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE), the #1 free development environment for Oracle WebLogic Server, is now available on new brand new Eclipse 3.5, as well as 3.4. This release introduces new tools for Oracle WebLogic Server, easier WebLogic / EclipseLink configuration, and new WebLogic JAX-WS Web Services tools. This free set of certified Eclipse plug-ins is designed to help develop, deploy, debug, and test applications for Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Database. It installs as a plug-in to your existing Eclipse, or will install Eclipse for you.