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  • Programming with Google Android and Eclipse posted Nov 11, 2009
    This article describes how to create Android applications with Eclipse.

    The article is based on Eclipse 3.5 and Android 2.0.
  • Many Years of Squish Success at ARM Ltd. posted Nov 11, 2009
    ARM started out by using Squish for GUI testing of a proprietary debugger and an Eclipse-based IDE. The debugger was written using Qt and it was when looking for a suitable testing tool for this that ARM first came across Squish. They are now developing a new Eclipse-based debugger in Java and plan to use Squish to provide automated GUI testing for that tool.
  • Combining Code Development, Modeling, and Simulation with Eclipse posted Nov 04, 2009
    Embedded systems and software developers juggle three critical challenges: rising design complexity, increasingly narrow time-to-market windows, and doing more with existing resources. To overcome these difficult issues, many development teams use the Eclipse open source platform for software development. One advantage of the Eclipse workspace is that it provides a highly customizable environment that can be tailored to the needs of individual software developers.
  • GUIdancer version 3.2 released posted Nov 04, 2009
    GUIdancer, Bredex GmbH's automated functional test tool, has been released in version 3.2 and is available for download. Version 3.2 contains a variety of new supported test actions, increasing the amount of tests that can be automated out-of-the-box. Using the library of GUIdancer actions, testers can create powerful, modular tests simply by dragging and dropping the required actions. Because this approach does not involve any program code, automation with GUIdancer is effective and productive from the outset.
  • Agile Task Management with Tasktop 1.6 and Mylyn 3.3 posted Oct 26, 2009
    Tasktop Technologies, creators of Eclipse Mylyn and the leading provider of task management solutions for application lifecycle management (ALM), today announced Tasktop Pro 1.6, which builds on Mylyn 3.3, the latest version of the most widely adopted ALM integration suite for the Eclipse IDE. New time-tracking support and ALM system interoperability create a complete task management layer that provides the missing link between software development delivery and agile project management.
  • Mobile Dredge: New Mobile & Wireless News Aggregator Web Site posted Oct 26, 2009
    Genuitec, LLC, a strategic member of the Eclipse Mobile Working Group, today announced a mobile news aggregation Web site. Named "Mobile Dredge," the Web site aims to collect all current and breaking news stories about mobile, mobile applications, carrier and handset maker news. Operated by Genuitec editors, Mobile Dredge promises to bring the most thoughtful, creative, and insightful news to one Web site where viewers can gain a snapshot of the mobile landscape.
  • Instantiations Updates Award-Winning GUI Development Tools posted Oct 23, 2009
    Instantiations today announced new version updates to its GUI development tools, WindowBuilder Pro v7.2 and WindowTester Pro v4.0. The company will showcase its new product features at Eclipse Summit Europe, October 27-29, 2009 with a booth and several presentations. WindowTester v4.0 provides extensive improvements for test recording; fine-tuning of assertions functionality, including improved Swing assertions support; improved Linux support and preliminary support for 64-Bit Cocoa; and numerous performance enhancements. WindowBuilder Pro v7.2 includes new code generation and parsing improvements to optimize performance; API support for customizing properties; expanded data binding, support for Riena and enhanced JFace and RCP support. CodePro AnalytiX and RCP Developer also have new versions available.
  • nWire for PHP Released: Real-Time PHP Code Visualization and Exploration posted Oct 13, 2009
    nWire Software, Ltd., an independent software vendor offering innovative Eclipse-based tools, today announced the general availability of nWire for PHP. nWire for PHP accelerates PHP development by helping developers navigate through their code and better understand the architecture of their application. nWire was developed with support from Zend, the PHP Company, and it is the first plugin to be based on the new Zend Studio 7 and the latest Eclipse PHP Development Tools 2.1 (PDT).
  • Jetty 7 arrives from Eclipse and Webtide posted Oct 09, 2009
    The Jetty developers have released version 7 of their popular Java Servlet container. The source code for the new release is available from the Eclipse Foundation under the Eclipse Public Licence (EPL); Jetty 6 continues to be available from the Codehaus project under the Apache 2 license. Jetty 7 is the first major release of Jetty from the Eclipse Foundation since the project moved under the Eclipse umbrella.
  • Instantiations Releases GWT Designer v7.2 with Support for Ext GWT posted Oct 08, 2009
    Instantiations, Inc., today announced the release of GWT Designer 7.2, an Eclipse-based GUI creation tool for developing interactive AJAX applications. The new version adds comprehensive support for the Ext GWT (GXT) v2.0 Java library, as well as continued support for the latest releases of Google Web Toolkit (GWT) through v1.7.1, as well as a multi-page CSS Style Editor, and other CSS enhancements and speed improvements.
  • EclipseSource completes TÜV certification for Secure Eclipse Plug-in Repository posted Sep 30, 2009
    EclipseSource Inc, the leading provider of Eclipse runtime products and services today announced that it has received TÜV certification of its proprietary process for validating and securing open source components. This industry-first achievement offers unprecedented protection and reassurance for organizations using open source components in their tool chain as well as those building applications on top of Eclipse and OSGi runtime technologies.
  • MyEclipse 8.0 Milestone 1: Eclipse Galileo, Struts 2 and Eclipse Profiler Support for the Enterprise posted Sep 30, 2009
    Our newest release is built to support Eclipse Galileo and delivers a powerful Java Profiler that can be used as a standalone tool outside of MyEclipse to profile any Java application, Eclipse plug-in or applet, as well as industry-leading support for the much-requested Struts 2 framework, enabling the development of enterprise-class Java Web applications.
  • Programmer Productivity posted Sep 29, 2009
    The Eclipse open source Mylyn project is the main implementation of a task-focused user interface. Mylyn provides the skeleton on which others -- Tasktop and Sun Microsystems to date -- have built full-featured enterprise versions that implement task management via task-focused user interfaces. These tools are proving to be particularly effective in reducing information overload and improving programmer productivity
  • Eclipse Gets Palm WebOS Mojo posted Sep 24, 2009
    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 posted Sep 17, 2009
    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 posted Sep 08, 2009
    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 posted Sep 03, 2009
    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. posted Sep 03, 2009
    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 posted Sep 03, 2009
    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.
  • REVIEW: Amazon's AWS Toolkit for Eclipse Makes It Easier to Develop for the Cloud posted Aug 26, 2009
    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. But don’t let the term "plug-in" fool you: I went into this evaluation expecting a single little dialog box with a few minimal features. I was pleasantly surprised to find full integration of AWS into Eclipse, providing complete control over managing remote instances, uploading code, running code remotely and even debugging remotely without leaving Eclipse.
  • ThoughtWorks Studios and Tasktop Partner to Improve Agile ALM Success With Eclipse Mylyn Integration for Adaptive ALM(TM) posted Aug 25, 2009
    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 posted Aug 24, 2009
    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 posted Aug 13, 2009
    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 posted Aug 12, 2009
    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 posted Aug 05, 2009
    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 posted Aug 05, 2009
    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. The Eclipse Foundation behind the development environment has grown into an influential consortium: in November 2001, IBM introduced the source code of a development environment into the newly established Eclipse.org open source community. IBM then dominated the scene for a long time, until the foundation was established as an independent and non-profit organisation for the development of the Eclipse platform in 2004.
  • Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11gR1 released on Eclipse 3.5 and 3.4 posted Aug 05, 2009
    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.
  • The Java GUI Testing Tool Squish Supports New Eclipse "Galileo" 3.5 posted Aug 05, 2009
    froglogic GmbH today announced support for automated testing of Java Rich Client Platform (RCP) applications based on the new Eclipse 3.5 release code named Galileo.

    Squish for Java is a leading functional GUI and regression testing tool enabling the creation and execution of automated GUI tests for Java SWT/RCP and AWT/Swing applications.
  • RIM Introduces New BlackBerry Tools for Web Developers posted Jul 30, 2009
    Research In Motion (RIM) today announced new and enhanced tools for developing web applications for BlackBerry® smartphones. The tools include the new BlackBerry® Web Development Plug-in for Eclipse and the BlackBerry® Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio version 1.2. These tools are part of a complete portfolio of BlackBerry® developer tools for web and Java development and a rich set of APIs that enable developers to easily create a wide variety of mobile applications that connect BlackBerry® smartphone users to the information they care about. The BlackBerry application platform also incorporates significant advantages, including real-time push technology, unmatched security and highly efficient data compression and network bandwidth utilization, allowing developers to deliver optimized applications on the most powerful, secure and efficient platform in the industry.
  • GUIdancer 3.1 released posted Jul 27, 2009
    Version 3.1 of GUIdancer is now available for download. As well adding support for the testing of GEF (Graphical Editing Framework) components, the new version is available for MAC OSX as a beta, and is compatible with Eclipse 3.5.

    Increased platform and application support are not the only areas where the Eclipse-based test tool has been expanded. GUIdancer's efficient keyword-driven approach has also been extended to improve the testing of dynamic tables.
  • Eclipse goes Automotive posted Jul 16, 2009
    Unter dem Dach der Open Source Community Eclipse Foundation arbeiten seit Februar namhafte OEMs, Zulieferer und Toolanbieter der Autobranche innerhalb der Eclipse Automotive Industry Working Group zusammen. Ziel ist es, nach dem unternehmensspezifischen Einsatz der Open-Source-Plattform Eclipse den nächsten Schritt zu einer offenen, gemeinsamen Lösung für die Branche bei Entwicklungs-Prozessen und -Werkzeugen zu gehen.
  • Visual Rules Enterprise Platform 4.5: Available now posted Jul 08, 2009
    Visual Rules is a Business Rules Management Platform that enables the efficient management of business rules. It comprises rule modeling, simulation, testing, integration and deployment, including monitoring and rule maintenance.
  • Eclipse Summit India 2009 to be held in Bangalore on 17th & 18th July 2009 posted Jul 08, 2009
    Brought to you by Saltmarch Media, producers of the hugely successful Great Indian Developer Summit, in association with India's pioneering and foremost group of Eclipse intelligentsia, ANCiT Consulting, Eclipse India Summit 2009 will feature four core tracks that hold relevance, immediacy and impact for the Eclipse ecosystem in India. Sessions, Keynotes and Workshops on GEF & Zest, Plugin Development, EMF, RCP, eRCP and RAP, BIRT, Testing, OSGI/Equinox, Design Patterns, and more.
  • La galaxie Eclipse 3.5 Galileo est accessible en téléchargement posted Jun 29, 2009
    Avis aux développeurs : la version annuelle d'Eclipse et de tous ses composants est désormais disponible sur le site de la fondation. Comme tous les ans, les nouveautés sont considérables.
  • Galileo, Galileo, Galileo! Congratulations Eclipse! posted Jun 25, 2009
    Ab heute Nachmittag, ca. 15 Uhr mitteleuropäischer Zeit, steht die lang erwartete Eclipse 3.5 Version Galileo zum Download auf eclipse.org bereit! Grund genug auch für die JAXenter-Redaktion, die den Galileo-Release-Zyklus über die letzten Monate hinweg journalistisch begleiten durfte, die Sektkorken knallen zu lassen und ein wenig mitzufeiern! Und so präsentieren wir uns in den nächsten Tagen ganz im festlichen Galileo-Gewand! Herzlichen Glückwunsch an alle Entwickler, die an den 33 Projekten der Eclipse-Galileo-Version mitgearbeitet haben! Gratulation an die Eclipse Foundation! Congratulations Eclipse!
  • Eclipse Galileo Pulsar - A First Look At Mobile Eclipse posted Jun 25, 2009
    The brand new build I am referring to is entitled Pulsar and is squarely focused for mobile Java developers. Pulsar however, is a lot more then just a new part of the release train of Galileo but, an effort to simplify mobile application development for different mobile platforms. You can read more about this in this DeveloperWorld article.
  • Eclipse worms into Apple Cocoa, iPhone posted Jun 25, 2009
    Apple Macs, iPhones, and other mobile devices are being pulled into the open-source tools universe of Eclipse, a group whose genesis can be traced to enterprise Java and C/C++.
    The project today released Eclipse 3.5, codenamed Galileo, which wraps 33 projects in an integrated release. For the first time, the bundle can be downloaded for development of Cocoa Mac applications destined for deployment on 32-bit and 64-bit Apple systems.
  • Eclipse Galileo shoots for the stars posted Jun 24, 2009
    News out today that the Eclipse community has delivered Galileo. The 2009 Eclipse release train is made up of 24 million lines of code across 33 projects, with contributions from 380 committers and 44 companies participating.
    As a product manager, I must say this is a pretty impressive accomplishment by the Eclipse Foundation and everyone involved with Eclipse. Well done!
  • Eclipse Galileo technologies set for orbit posted Jun 24, 2009
    The Eclipse Foundation will put out on Wednesday its annual release train, this time featuring the simultaneous release of technologies from 33 different open source project teams in spaces ranging mobile to SOA to the base Eclipse platform.
  • Eclipse Galileo: The release train leaves the station posted Jun 24, 2009
    The Eclipse Foundation's annual release train, this year dubbed Galileo, has now been released. The Eclipse release train brings together a large number of Eclipse projects and synchronises them into a single release with the aim of making "commercial adoption simple and straightfoward" according to Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director at the Eclipse Foundation. The idea is that rather than a commercial adopter trying picking up what could be dozens of seperate projects, by using the release train, they can plan for one major annual update.
  • Eclipse Galileo Marks Fourth Release Train posted Jun 24, 2009
    The Eclipse Foundation today announced its fourth "release train," a coordinated, simultaneous launch of a group of open-source Eclipse projects that has become an annual event. Representing a key milestone for Eclipse, this year’s new release train, code named "Galileo," is the largest yet, comprising 33 projects and more than 24 million lines of code.
  • Eclipse Galileo - This Is How To Release Software posted Jun 24, 2009
    Today marks the much anticipated release of Eclipse Galileo, or Eclipse 3.5. Once again, it's striking how such a large set of projects across the developer community can coordinate such a big software drop consistently, year after year. Congratulations and much respect is due to the project leads, developers and Eclipse foundation for achieving this.
  • Crème de Cocoa: Eclipse Galileo veröffentlicht posted Jun 24, 2009
    Im sechsten Jahr in Folge hat die Eclipse-Community wieder ein koordiniertes Eclipse-Paket ausgeliefert. Die aktuelle Zusammenstellung namens Galileo umfasst über 33 Eclipse-Projekte mit über 24 Millionen Codezeilen und ist somit das umfangreichste vorkonfigurierte Paket, das die Eclipse-Community bisher geschnürt hat: Über 380 Committer von 44 Organisationen haben zu der neuen Version beigetragen.
  • Eclipse Galileo released posted Jun 24, 2009
    The Eclipse Foundation today announced the release of Eclipse Galileo, the simultaneous release of 33 projects, including the venerable Eclipse JDT. As well as the new features covered by InfoQ already, the Galileo release includes the PHP Development Tools Project, as well as stalwarts like modelling packages and the persistence layer EclipseLink (formerly known as Oracle's TopLink).
  • Instantiations Product Updates Synchronized with Eclipse 3.5 Galileo Release posted Jun 24, 2009
    Instantiations, Inc., today announced that its entire Eclipse-based product line has been updated in conjunction with the annual Eclipse release, Galileo. In addition to adding support for Eclipse 3.5, significant new and enhanced functionality has been added across the product line. Further, Instantiations now offers a new product, WindowTester Runner, that offers GUI test execution as a separate function from test creation, ideal for large Eclipse development groups.
  • Webinar: OSGi and Equinox Jumpstart posted Jun 23, 2009
    OSGi has been in the press a lot lately. Everywhere you turn there is some new product or project adopting the technology. From Eclipse to Apache to Spring. From servers to desktops to embedded. OSGi enables the creation of highly modular, dynamic Java-based systems.

    Wondering what its all about? Join book author and Equinox OSGi project co-lead Jeff McAffer (http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9780321561510) and PDE OSGi tooling lead Chris Aniszczyk for an introduction to Equinox and OSGi concepts and look at the breadth and depth of technology available in this space.
  • Eclipse plug-in puts TOGAF 9 into IDE collaboration mode for architects posted Jun 23, 2009
    Based on the Eclipse Process Framework (EPF), an open-source project managed by the Eclipse Foundation, the TOGAF Customizer can be used to implement TOGAF 9 more easily. TOGAF is an industry-consensus framework and method for enterprise architecture (EA) developed by The Open Group, and released in February.
  • Excelsior JET Protects Eclipse RCP Applications From Reverse Engineering posted Jun 22, 2009
    Excelsior JET is the first compliant Java SE implementation that supports the core of the Eclipse Runtime (Equinox OSGi) at the JVM level and enables Java code and data protection by compiling RCP applications down to native code executables.
  • RBC Capital Markets Taps Open Source Platform for Fixed Income Applications posted Jun 17, 2009
    To provide its fixed-income traders with a more integrated user experience, RBC has turned to Eclipse, an open source integrated development environment, as the basis for its global fixed-income trading applications. The ongoing project, called Helios, is targeted at bringing front-office trading applications under a single user interface.
  • Getting Ready for Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo): What’s New? posted Jun 10, 2009
    With the announcement of Release Candidate 3, it’s a couple of weeks until Eclipse 3.5 code named “Galileo” will reach GA status. This new release of the popular Java development environment includes several new features and improvements over its previous version.
  • SAP Extends Commitment to Open Source, Increases Eclipse Membership Status and Joins Additional Eclipse Projects posted Jun 08, 2009
    As part of its ongoing commitment to Java technology and the choice it provides to customers as well as industry-wide technology standards and open source, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) is taking a more active leadership role in the Eclipse Foundation by increasing its membership level from Strategic Consumer to Strategic Developer. SAP will provide at least eight full-time development resources to various projects and lead open source projects, ensuring direct input into the development and architecture of Eclipse. As a Strategic Developer, SAP will be more active within the Eclipse community, including the new Eclipse Git Team Provider (EGit), the Eclipse Modeling Project (EMP) and the Eclipse Equinox Project. Eclipse technology has become the de-facto standard in many domains and for many companies ongoing collaboration on various projects with other industry leaders supports the standards and open source strategies of customers and partners.
  • Exadel JavaFX Studio delivers the future of rich UIs. posted Jun 02, 2009
    JavaFX is a new platform for creating and deploying rich Internet applications inside a lightweight Java virtual machine. JavaFX Studio works as an Eclipse plugin for developing and deploying JavaFX applications. JavaFX Studio comes with numerous features and wizards to make JavaFX application development better.
  • Umfrage: 90 Prozent sind zufrieden mit Eclipse-Entwicklungsumgebung posted May 28, 2009
    Die Eclipse Foundation hat die Ergebnisse der weltweiten "2009 Eclipse Community Survey" in dem "Open Source Developer Report" vorgestellt. Die Foundation hatte von Mitte April bis Mitte Mai zu der Umfrage eingeladen, um Aufschluss zu erhalten, wie Entwickler die von ihnen genutzten Werkzeuge verwenden und insbesondere welche Software sie einsetzen.
  • Introducing MobiOne: Bypass App Stores, Deploy Across Popular Smart Devices posted May 27, 2009
    Genuitec, LLC, maker of the market-leading MyEclipse software and a founding and strategic member of the Eclipse Foundation, today announced the initial milestone release (M1) of MobiOne; a new enterprise-class technology that enables development of mobile applications using Web standards.
  • MyEclipse 7.5 M1: Master Class VisualVM Java Profiler Support and Visual SQL posted May 27, 2009
    Genuitec has announced the initial milestone release of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 7.5. The new release series delivers extensive speed upgrades, incorporates the world’s leading VisualVM Java Profiler, Remote Websphere Deployment, a Visual SQL Query Builder, ICEfaces 1.8 support and an upgrade to MyEclipse’s Visual Designers.
  • Eclipse-based Planning Product xProcess Goes Open Source posted May 20, 2009
    One of the most innovative project management and process improvement solutions to emerge in recent years, xProcess, has today been officially released under open source license. Ivis Technologies, the Colorado-based company that developed the Eclipse-based product, also announced today the formation of a new company, OpenXprocess Ltd to own, maintain and support the product and provide services to the xProcess community.
  • Genuitec Taps Mobile Web for Easy iPhone, BlackBerry, Android App Development posted May 06, 2009
    Java development tools maker Genuitec is working on innovative mobile Web development technology that will enable Web developers to build mobile applications for popular platforms, such as the Apple iPhone, without having to learn native development techniques and languages such as Objective-C. The new offering, known as MobiOne, is based on WebKit and Eclipse technology and is easily adopted by Web developers familiar with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
  • GUIdancer 3.0 for immediate download posted Apr 24, 2009
    Bredex GmbH announced today the immediate availability of GUIdancer 3.0, the automated GUI test tool, from their website (www.guidancer.com). GUIdancer has been expanded in two directions to make automated GUI testing easier and more accessible for a wider range of teams. The introduction of model-based testing lets test case designs be generated from UML models, while the new observation mode allows testers to use a running application to create tests. The Braunschweig-based test experts have also introduced free and unlimited execution licenses with every specification license to reduce the cost of working with the tool.
  • One Small Step Towards Reducing License Proliferation posted Apr 17, 2009
    License proliferation has been a hot topic amongst the open source community for the past couple of years. I am happy to report that the Eclipse Foundation and IBM have collaborated to do our bit to help by superseding the Common Public License (CPL) with the Eclipse Public License (EPL). This means that the CPL will no longer be considered an active open source license.
  • Jetty at Eclipse - EclipseCon 2009 posted Apr 17, 2009
    While at EclipseCon this year, I had the chance to talk with Greg Wilkins and Adam Lieber of Webtide. Just the night before they’d checked code into the Eclipse Foundation repositories to finish up adding Jetty as an Eclipse project. We start out discussing Jetty’s new Eclipse home.
  • New release of Scala IDE for Eclipse posted Apr 16, 2009
    The Scala IDE for Eclipse is centered around seamless integration with the Eclipse Java tools, providing many of the features Eclipse users have come to expect.
  • Eclipse: Many Hands, Light Work posted Apr 15, 2009
    Michael Milinkovich, executive director of the foundation, says that when joining the group, members have to rethink many of the ways they see technology. The first assumption that needs to be jettisoned: that companies need their own versions of important programs as a way of having an edge on their competitors. "Every bank has a program they use to monitor consumer risk," he says. "But companies need to stop thinking about every line of code as a corporate asset. A great deal of code is exactly the same."
  • Equinox Update with Jeff McAffer - EclipseCon 2009 posted Apr 15, 2009
    In this interview from EclipseCon, I talk with multi-RedMonkTV guest Jeff McAffer, one of the leads on the Equinox project. Having spoken with him about Equinox many times before, I start by asking him to give us an update on what’s been going on in Equinox-land of late. In doing so, we speak about how Equinox is related to the OSGi Enterprise and other specifications.
  • Google adds Java to App Engine cloud service posted Apr 13, 2009
    Early support for Java includes a Java runtime, integration with the Google Web Toolkit 1.6, and a Google Plugin for Eclipse. Developers can program against Java Data Objects or Java Persistence API. Thus far, App Engine has leveraged the Python language.
  • Riena - A New Adventure In Eclipse posted Apr 06, 2009
    The Riena project has just released it's 1.0 version recently. In this article, I'll show you how to get going with Riena by walking you through my own experiences using the project. As well as providing a little background on the project I will show how to create a UI with Riena, and run through an example of remote services.
  • Red Hat Adds SOA to JBoss Dev Tool posted Mar 25, 2009
    Red Hat Software today released the first major update to its Eclipse-based developer toolset, allowing developers to build rich interactive and service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications.
  • Deutsche Post Spin-off SOPERA Introduces Next-Generation Application Development Platform posted Mar 25, 2009
    SOPERA's Eclipse SOA initiative provides a comprehensive platform within Eclipse that enables developers to build Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications. The Eclipse SOA platform will include a new service registry/repository, integrate process orchestration engines, and provide integration between Eclipse Swordfish (SOA Runtime Framework) and the SOA Tooling Platform (STP).
  • New AWS Toolkit for Eclipse posted Mar 25, 2009
    Today, we are introducing the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse. This free, open source plugin for the Eclipse IDE makes it easier and more efficient for you to develop, deploy, and debug Java applications on top of AWS. In fact, you can design an entire AWS-hosted Tomcat-based cluster from within Eclipse. You can design your cluster, specifying the number of EC2 instances and the instance type to run. You have can select and even create security groups and keypairs and can associate an Elastic IP address with each instance.
  • Instantiations Releases Major Upgrade to WindowBuilder Pro; Wins Best Commercial Eclipse Developer Tool Award posted Mar 24, 2009
    Instantiations, Inc., a leading provider of Eclipse-based commercial software solutions, today released version 7.0 of its market-leading WindowBuilder™ Pro Java graphical user-interface (GUI) builder, and was awarded the "Best Commercial Eclipse-Based Developer Tool" by the Eclipse Foundation at EclipseCon 2009. WindowBuilder Pro includes powerful functionality for creating user interfaces based on the popular Swing, SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit), and GWT (Google Web Toolkit) UI frameworks.
  • Oracle® Enterprise Pack for Eclipse Release 11g Now Available posted Mar 24, 2009
    The Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse is designed to help organizations where Eclipse is the preferred Integrated Development Environment (IDE) by providing a set of Eclipse plug-ins to help develop, deploy and debug Java SE, Java EE, Spring, ORM and Web Service applications for Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Database.
  • Eclipse Shines a Light on the IDE's Future posted Mar 23, 2009
    The open source Eclipse Foundation has its eye on making its integrated development environment (IDE) ready for the future, with new projects designed to better adapt to cloud-based architectures and to stake a claim in runtime frameworks.
  • Eclipse to detail platform, SOA plans at conference posted Mar 23, 2009
    The Eclipse Foundation will cite at the EclipseCon 2009 conference this week the latest developments in areas ranging from the core Eclipse platform to SOA and modeling, including plans to make the platform available as Web services.
  • GUI Testing Specialist froglogic to Preview Squish 4.0 at EclipseCon 2009 posted Mar 19, 2009
    froglogic GmbH will show a preview of Squish 4.0 at EclipseCon 2009 in Santa Clara next week. Squish 4.0 is the next generation of froglogic's leading cross-platform, automated GUI testing tool.
  • SpringSource unveils new release of Eclipse-based tool suite posted Mar 19, 2009
    SpringSource—the company behind the open source Spring framework for Java—has officially released a new version of its commercial Eclipse-based development environment, the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS). The new version brings improved tools to streamline application editing and accelerate Spring project development.
  • Tasktop 1.4 and Eclipse Mylyn 3.1 released posted Mar 18, 2009
    Today’s Tasktop 1.4 and Eclipse Mylyn 3.1 releases are a milestone in the evolution of the task-focused interface. Mylyn continues to improve as a framework and core tools for open source developers, while Tasktop evolves its commercial integrations and enterprise-ready feature set. Together, these tools are bringing the benefits of the task-focused interface to a rapidly growing audience.
  • EclipseCon is Next Week: Discount for OStatic Readers posted Mar 17, 2009
    Next week, March 23rd to 26th, EclipseCon takes place in Santa Clara, California. Eclipse is a very large open source community focused on open develpment platforms, and extensible frameworks and tools, overseen by The Eclipse Foundation. The conference is an annual event, and this year's will feature a number of high-profile speakers, including developers and software leads from Microsoft, IBM and other companies and organizations.
  • MyEclipse 7.1: The Eclipse Standard for Web Services and Persistence posted Mar 11, 2009
    Genuitec, LLC, the leading provider of the popular MyEclipse integrated development environment (IDE) and a founding and strategic member of the Eclipse Foundation, announced today the production release of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 7.1. The new release delivers enhanced JAX-RS tooling and a variety of persistence enhancements to improve the MyEclipse experience.
  • Eclipse Pulsar seeks mobile app dev unity posted Mar 10, 2009
    Called Pulsar, the initiative is intended to build a standard mobile application development tools platform. It is being led by vendors like Motorola and Nokia and seeks to make it easier to develop applications for different mobile systems. Although the individual platform technologies would not go away, Pulsar provides a unified platform to work with the individual vendor-specific technologies.
  • Integrating BIRT with PHP posted Mar 03, 2009
    The Eclipse BIRT project is best known as a report-creation tool that supports multiple data sources and produces many different forms of output. The BIRT Viewer and the BIRT engine work well in a Java/J2EE environment, but what if your web applications are built using PHP? In order to call BIRT from PHP, a PHP-to-Java bridge is necessary. Jason Weathersby demonstrates how you can use BIRT with PHP using a bridge to generate reports from PHP Web applications.
  • OSGi Takes Off Among Enterprise Service Bus Providers posted Mar 02, 2009
    The OSGi Alliance announced that many leading Enterprise Service Bus providers in the market have demonstrated their commitment to the platform through the current or planned employment of OSGi technology in their ESBs and products that utilize ESBs.
  • Tasktop Guarantees Productivity Gains for Eclipse Developers -- Eclipse Mylyn-based Tasktop Pro Now Backed by Unique 100% Guarantee posted Feb 23, 2009
    Tasktop Technologies, the company behind the popular Eclipse Mylyn open source task management software, announced a unique 100% money-back guarantee for Tasktop Pro users. Tasktop Pro is the company's full-featured product for software developers based on Eclipse Mylyn. Dr. Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop Technologies, said "I've always been fascinated by the way that software tools can transform our ability to work, so it's exciting for Tasktop to be offering the first productivity promise of this sort."
  • Innovations releases Visual Rules 4.4 posted Feb 20, 2009
    Innovations Software Technology today announces the release of the Visual Rules Enterprise Platform 4.4, the premier Business Rules Management (BRM) Platform. The highlight of this release is the extension of the management components with Visual Rules Execution Server.
  • Equinox Case Study: Equinox Guides Banks to Sound Credit Decisions (PDF Link) posted Feb 19, 2009
    Equinox was perfect for us. It takes care of many of the integration details for us and the bundle mechanism is ideal for mixing and matching functionality to meet specific use cases.
  • The Open-Source Collaboration Gap posted Feb 18, 2009
    When it comes to open-source communities, individuals are much better citizens than institutions. The enlightened self-interest that causes individuals to send back bug fixes, contribute ideas for new features and write documentation is much harder to find in institutions. This week, the JargonSpy analyzes why such a gap exists and what can be done about it.
  • Meet This Year's Top Committer Nominees posted Feb 17, 2009
    Today we complete our trilogy of interviews with the Individual Eclipse Community Awards nominees with the Top Committer nominees.
  • Meet This Year's Top Contributor Nominees posted Feb 17, 2009
    Continuing our coverage of the Individual Eclipse Community Awards, following on from yesterday's interviews with the Top Ambassador nominees, today we interview the nominees for the Top Contributor category.
  • Meet This Year's Top Ambassador Nominees posted Feb 17, 2009
    The Eclipse Awards Season is in full swing this month, with voting open for the Individual Eclipse Community Awards. DZone interviewed each of the nominees for the awards, to give you a little background before you decide to vote.
  • Aonix Releases ObjectAda for Wind River VxWorks RTOS posted Feb 12, 2009
    ObjectAda for VxWorks leverages Wind River Workbench, an Eclipse-based development environment providing developers access to the broad range of tools available through the Eclipse framework. With support for multiple operating systems, architectures and programming languages, ObjectAda for VxWorks provides the flexibility to standardize on a single development framework.
  • Cisco To Add BIRT To Network Access Control System posted Feb 12, 2009
    BIRT, which is Actuate's Eclipse Foundation project, will provide interactive data for network monitoring and planning within the Web-based interface of Cisco's Secure Access Control Server.
  • Eclipse GUI Test Automation: American Power Conversion Corp. uses Squish for Java posted Feb 10, 2009
    The team researched for a suitable tool, and during that process they downloaded an evaluation copy of Squish. They used the evaluation copy to produce a proof of concept, and having successfully done this, they then contacted several companies who were already using Squish for their test efforts. After completing their research and satisfying themselves that Squish would meet their needs, they purchased their Squish licenses.
    From a technical point of view, several reasons led to APC choosing Squish for automating InfraStruXure's functional GUI tests, rather than some other tool. On key reason was Squish's cross-platform support, which means that the same test scripts can be run against their user interface on both Windows and Linux.
  • Wavecom introduces fully integrated development environment for automotive and machine-to-machine applications (PDF Link) posted Feb 04, 2009
    Replacing the existing Open AT® IDE, M2M Studio fully integrates previously isolated tools such as the source code editor, project build wizard, target download, RTE mode monitor, JTAG debugger, traces emulator and development tool chain, all within the Eclipse Ganymede framework. Eclipse and CDT (C/C++ Development Tools plug-in) are becoming the industry standard for C and C++ development in the embedded world.
  • Case study: Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform Use at CAS Software AG posted Feb 02, 2009
    Most recently CAS Software has been working on a product called CAS PIA (Personal Information Assistant) which will be a SaaS (Software as a Service) offering, the first such offering from CAS. It is built on a number of technologies which will be discussed in more detail later. This case study will take a focus on Eclipse RAP (Rich Ajax Platform) and how it was applied to the architecture of CAS PIA, as well as some interesting uses for RAP, lessons learned by CAS while using it, and future directions for their products.
  • Fünf Jahre Eclipse Foundation posted Feb 02, 2009
    Die Entwicklungsumgebung Eclipse ist ohne Frage ein sehr populäres Open-Source-Projekt, und spätestens 2004 mit Veröffentlichung der 3.x-Entwicklungsschiene hat sich die IDE-Landschaft in der Java-Welt grundlegend geändert. Mittlerweile ist Eclipse nicht mehr nur auf die Java-Programmiersprache begrenzt. 2008 waren zum Beispiel die PHP Development Tools (PDT) – also Eclipse-Plug-ins für PHP-Entwickler, um Eclipse als IDE nutzen zu können – das Eclipse-Projekt, das am zweithäufigsten heruntergeladen wurde. Die Gründung eines eigenen Top-Level-Projekts zum Thema Eclipse als Runtime-Umgebung deutet hingegen auf eine neue erfolgversprechende Strategie hin.
  • Instantiations Expands into Japanese Market with SureAvenue posted Jan 30, 2009
    Instantiations and SureAvenue, a solution provider for system consultation and system development, have announced an official reseller relationship. Under terms of the agreement, SureAvenue is exclusively licensed to resell Instantiations' GUI development, quality improvement, and software testing tools in Japan.
  • Jetty Web server flies to Eclipse posted Jan 29, 2009
    Jetty already has been part of several Eclipse projects, including acting as the Web and application server for Equinox, the Eclipse OSGi-based plug-in platform for application development, Webtide said.
  • Winding Road Leads Skyway to Open Source Code-Generation Framework posted Jan 29, 2009
    It's hard to overstate the impact that open source technologies have had on the software industry. One recent example: Skyway Software, provider of an open-source code-generation framework for Spring-based applications, called Skyway Builder. The Tampa-based company last week announced the general availability of Skyway Builder 6.1, which is all about delivering Java EE apps for Spring. But the company started out going in a different direction.
  • Eclipse Foundation snuggles up to Microsoft posted Jan 29, 2009
    He explained that the majority of Eclipse developers target Windows, and that Eclipse could serve as an onramp to help bring developers to Microsoft's platforms. "It's a win-win for both parties," he declared, noting that 84% of all Eclipse downloads are for the Windows platform.
  • Building Better Phone Applications with Eclipse posted Jan 28, 2009
    The benefits of this approach are particularly strong when building multi-channel phone applications, since dedicated tools can be used for the specific technical needs of the different channels. Even better, many of these tools are available as free downloads such as the ones we take a closer look at here.
  • EMF Refcard Released - Meet The Authors posted Jan 28, 2009
    Today, DZone releases the Eclipse Modelling Framework Refcard, with all you need to get started using EMF, the most popular framework among Eclipse users and projects. Ed Merks was the primary author of this Refcard, with me co-authoring as a user of EMF. Here, Ed answers some questions about the Refcard and EMF.
  • EMF: Eclipse Modelling Framework (Your Chance to Win a Copy) posted Jan 28, 2009
    As a user of EMF, I know how much this book has been anticipated, and it hasn't failed to deliver. This book will appeal to both long time users of EMF and developers who want to get started with the technology. Anyone interested in model driven development within Eclipse will learn a lot from this edition. So much in the Eclipse community is based on EMF that it is essential to understand it's architecture and capabilities.