Eclipse News

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the availability of the 1.0 release of the Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) project. Eclipse PDT is a set of tools and frameworks that enhance the productivity of developers using PHP, a popular, general-purpose dynamic language that is especially suited for development of web applications and web services. This is the first Eclipse project that targets the large PHP developer community.

The Eclipse Training Alliance in collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation is organizing RCP training classes in Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Luxemburg, Paris, Portland (Oregon), San Francisco and Stuttgart. Classes will occur between September 17 and October 5 and are offered at greatly reduced prices.

In a move that revolutionizes software development practices by combining the best of the open source and commercial software domains, QNX Software Systems today announced that it is opening access to the source code of its QNX® Neutrino® realtime operating system (RTOS) under a new hybrid software licensing arrangement.

While Workshop already features an SDK and IDE, Roth insisted there was no redundancy. Both Adobe and BEA have built on the Eclipse platform. "That allows both Workshop and Flex Builder to exist in one IDE." Roth said. "Eclipse provides the basic IDE framework. Workshop and Flex fill it out."

What would an Eclipse-like Mozilla be? Much the same, except with the express goal to help member companies and member developers use Firefox (and other Mozilla properties) as a foundation for their development, with an explicit nod to commercial development. This is one reason that Eclipse is so successful, as Mike Milinkovich of Eclipse indicated in these pages:

The PM of the Eclipse Process Framework project explained at Agile2006 how IBM's Eclipse-based process tools allow teams to select the practices they want to create a customized methodology that works for them. With a wiki and hooks to insert custom in-house documentation and practices, it provides a framework to configure the approach you want, or to grow into the approach you need.

iscoord ag, multiple IBM Award winner and independent developer of integrated IP telephony softphones for IBM® Lotus Notes® and IBM® Lotus® Sametime®, announces the availability of the is-phone® Java™ SDK (Software Development Kit) for developing softphone applications based on the open development platform Eclipse. It enables software developers to integrate telephony functions based on SIP 2.0 into their applications. It is the first Java SDK for SIP softphone development based on Eclipse.

They knew and liked Eclipse RCP from earlier experience and recognized that it would meet their needs. "For us, choosing Eclipse for this project was easy. It was the most complete platform in critical areas."

Register soon! Early bird registration pricing for ESE ends Thursday, September 6, 2007.

Red Hat has announced the beta release of Red Hat Developer Studio, the new Eclipse-based IDE for the Red Hat family of solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

The 10% early bird discount for Eclipse RCP training ends this Friday, August 31, 2007. The Eclipse Foundation, in partnership with Eclipse training companies, is holding training sessions that will take place in Amsterdam, Berlin, Boston, Braunschweig, Brussels, Chicago, Copenhagen, Denver, Luxembourg, Paris, San Francisco, San Jose, Stockholm, Stuttgart and Portland.

One day at a MOTODEV Summit can show you how to break through fragmentation and complexity to tap the vast mobile opportunity and save weeks or even months of development time to help you bring your commercial or enterprise application to market. Drill down into exactly the areas that interest you with detailed technical training, hands-on workshops and informative sessions. Gain valuable insights into emerging technologies and get a sneak peek at Motorola's newly announced MOTOMAGX platform.

Eclipse is a new world for Microsoft® Visual Studio® developers, and getting started with Eclipse can be confusing. New concepts, such as plug-in architecture, workspace-centric project structure, and automatic build can seem counterintuitive at first. Learn about these and other differences between the two environments, so that you can begin to feel at home with Eclipse.

IBM today announced new technology that is designed to arm professionals with the ability to combine information from different sources to create just-in-time applications needed to help close a big deal, deliver an important presentation or just get through the weather.

IBM said Friday that it is shipping Lotus Notes and Domino 8, the first major upgrade to its e-mail and messaging software in two years.

Serena is launching a user-oriented software-as-a-service toolset based on the concept of "enterprise mashups."

Eclipse, in partnership with IDC, is holding its first Community Survey. Take the survey to give us your opinions and earn a chance to win a prize!

CodeGear, a leader in developer tools, today announced JGear(TM), a set of specialized plug-ins for the Eclipse open-source development platform. JGear both augments and accelerates the open-source platform and tools in three key areas -- Java application performance, visual development, and team collaboration -- capabilities not addressed by Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE) solutions today.

Europa featured the simultaneous release of the latest software from 21 Eclipse open-source software projects, ranging from AspectJ Development Tools to Eclipse Communication Framework to Web Tools Platform. Collectively, there have been 700,000 download requests for the base Eclipse SDK and an additional 1.4 million requests for five different Europa packages tuned to specific needs, such as for Java or C/C++ development.

As I told Mike Milkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, my understanding of Eclipse is several years old. I called him today to get an update on Eclipse, and learn what all the fuss is about.