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  • Write a Review for the Galileo Blogathon posted May 29, 2009

    Now that Galileo is out, we want to hear what you think! We will give you a Friend of Eclipse membership or an Eclipse shirt for writing a review of the release. One lucky winner will also win a pass to EclipseCon 2010 or Eclipse Summit Europe 2009!

    To enter the blogathon, all you need to do is publish your review on a blog, a newsgroup or portal, and then send us the link to galileo-reviews@eclipse.org. Eclipse is a global community, so feel free to write the review in your native language.

    The top 3 reviews will also receive Eclipse jackets and the best review will receive a pass to the next EclipseCon 2010 or Eclipse Summit Europe 2009. These reviews will be chosen by a panel of judges. All entries must be received by July 31, 2009. For full details, see the blogathon page.

  • Eclipse Galileo Release Now Available posted Jun 24, 2009
    For the sixth year in a row, the Eclipse community has delivered its annual release train on its scheduled date. Galileo, the 2009 release train, is the largest ever release from the Eclipse community, comprising 33 projects and over 24 million lines of code. Over 380 committers from 44 different organizations participated to make this release possible.
  • Eclipse Acceleo Day posted Jun 18, 2009

    The first Eclipse Acceleo Day is being held in Nantes, France on July 10, 2009. Acceleo is a component of the Eclipse Model to Text (M2T) project and the workshop will be an event where users and developers of Acceleo can meet, present their planned extensions, and discuss model-driven engineering.

    Topics of interest at the workshop will include MOF-to-Text language, validation with Acceleo, scripting generation, comparisons to other generative engines, and integration of Acceleo in an industrial tool chain. Workshop attendees are welcome to present their work in a 20-minute demo to get feedback from the community. See the event page for participation details.

    Eclipse Acceleo Day is co-located with the 10th Libre Software Meeting. The event is free but you must register by July 3 in order to attend.

  • Announcing Eclipse Day at the GooglePlex 2009 posted Jun 17, 2009
    We are pleased to announce the second Eclipse Day at the Googleplex on August 27, 2009 at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA. There is no charge to attend but you need to pre-register.
  • Eclipse Summit Europe Call for Participation posted Jun 11, 2009

    The call for participation is now open for Eclipse Summit Europe, the Eclipse Foundation’s annual European community event, taking place October 27-29, 2009 in Ludwigsburg, Germany. You are invited to submit proposals in five categories: 1) embedded, 2) IDEs, 3) modeling, 4) runtime, or 5) other new & noteworthy that is of interest to the Eclipse community.

    The Eclipse Summit Europe schedule will consist of one day of tutorials and symposia followed by two days of technical and business sessions, so many opportunities are available for you to present your Eclipse expertise to conference attendees. We encourage you to submit early, as proposals will be open to the community for questions, comments and feedback.

    Guidelines for submissions are available at http://www.eclipsecon.org/summiteurope2009/submissions. The deadline to submit is August 18, 2009. We anticipate an exciting program at this year’s conference and look forward to hearing from you!

    Please note as well that attendee registration will open in July and conference sponsorship packages are already available.

  • Galileo In Action posted Jun 08, 2009

    On June 26, the Eclipse Foundation is presenting Galileo In Action - a virtual conference where you can interact with project leads involved in the release and see demos of the new features. The annual simultaneous release has now grown to 33 projects with over 24 million lines of code, contributed by committers around the world. With such a large global community, Eclipse wants to bring Galileo to you!

    Galileo In Action is free to attend and registering gets you into all 5 sessions:

    • 10:00 am EST - What is Galileo and Why do I Love it?
      Presented by Doug Schaefer (C/C++ Development Tooling) and John Graham (Data Tools Platform)
    • 11:00 am EST - Frameworks Showcase
      Presented by Scott Lewis (Eclipse Communication Framework) and Pascal Rapicault (p2)
    • 12:00 pm EST - Runtime Showcase
      Presented by Tom Watson (Equinox) and Shaun Smith (EclipseLink)
    • 01:00 pm EST - Tools Showcase
      Presented by Andreas Buchen (Memory Analyzer) and Roy Ganor (PHP Development Tools)
    • 02:00 pm EST - Galileo In Action
      Presented by Jason Weathersby (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) and Mik Kersten (Mylyn)

    See more details on these sessions.

    To attend, register through GoToMeeting.

  • Eclipse Community Survey Results 2009 posted May 27, 2009
    The Eclipse Foundation has released the results of the Eclipse Community Survey 2009. The purpose of the survey is to better understand how the Eclipse community uses Eclipse and open source software and how people participate in and perceive open source software.
  • Eclipse Galileo RC1 Packages Now Available for Testing posted May 26, 2009
    The Eclipse Galileo RC1 Packages are now available. Please take the time to download, test and provide feedback on a package.
  • Write a Review for the Galileo Blogathon posted May 25, 2009

    We want to hear what you think of the Eclipse projects that are being released as part of Galileo. We will give you a Friend of Eclipse membership or an Eclipse shirt for writing a review. One lucky winner will also win a pass to EclipseCon 2010 or Eclipse Summit Europe 2009!

    To enter the blogathon, all you need to do is write a review about one or more of the projects that are a part of the Eclipse Galileo release. Publish the review on your blog, a newsgroup or portal and then send us a link to galileo-reviews@eclipse.org.

    A review will be deemed worthy of a thank you gift, if the content conveys sufficient technical content. We aren't looking for long essays, so 3 to 5 points of what you like or don't like about one or more Galileo projects is sufficient. Eclipse is a global community, so feel free to write the review in your native language. You can also write multiple reviews, however we will only award one item per person. The top 3 reviews will also receive Eclipse jackets and the best review will receive a pass to the next EclipseCon 2010 or Eclipse Summit Europe 2009.

    The top 3 and the best reviews will be selected by a panel of judges. All entries must be received by July 31, 2009. For full details, see the blogathon page.

  • Eclipse Application Developer Day posted May 19, 2009

    An Eclipse Application Developer Day (EADD) is being held in Karlsruhe, Germany on July 7, 2009. This full-day event will provide an opportunity for both new experienced Eclipse developers to learn more about the Eclipse platform and how it is being used in every day applications.

    The Eclipse Runtime will be featured in many aspects of the program including a joint keynote on Equinox, RCP and other runtime technologies by Jochen Krause from EclipseSource and Harald Mueller from SAP. You'll learn more about the individual Runtime projects in presentations including Christian Campo from compeople on the Riena Project, Benjamin Muskalla from EclipseSource on RAP (Rich Ajax Platform) and Heiko Seeberger from Weigle Wilczek on OSGi. Steffen Becker from FZI will contribute with a talk on modelling.

    The call for presentations is open until May 21st so stay tuned for more exciting additions to the program.

    Eclipse Application Developer Day is sponsored by andrena objects, the Eclipse Foundation, EclipseSource, FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, SAP and Silverstroke. Support is also being contributed by Bredex, instinctools and itemis. The support provided by these organizations has made it possible to offer this event free of charge to participants.

  • Eclipse Time in Toulouse posted May 07, 2009

    Anyware Technologies and the Eclipse Foundation are pleased to announce Eclipse Time, a 2-day event taking place in Toulouse, France, June 23-24, 2009.

    Discover the Eclipse open source platform with business cases presented by experts. Eclipse Time features well-known speakers from the community including Eclipse Foundation members, software editors and companies that use Eclipse-based solutions. The event consists of a conference day followed by a full day of workshops.

    Registration for the conference day is free and the workshop day is only 600 € plus VAT, which includes attendance at 2 workshops.

    Eclipse Time would like to thank gold sponsor Airbus, as well as the event sponsors: Eclipse Foundation, Geensys, IBM, ILOG, Ingres, Instantiations, Obeo, Tests ePerformance and Anyware Technologies.

  • Eclipse Embedded Day in Stuttgart posted May 04, 2009

    MicroDoc and the Eclipse Foundation are pleased to announce Eclipse Embedded Day in Stuttgart, which takes place June 25, 2009.

    Eclipse Embedded Day is a day-long event for senior technical developers, architects and technical managers in the automotive, telematics, mobile, consumer electronic and medical industry to learn how to better leverage Eclipse technology and the Eclipse community as part of their development strategy. In addition, the event features sessions on Eclipse projects and case studies related to the embedded space.

    Attendees will have the chance to hear speakers from leading companies in the embedded space and experts from the Eclipse community. There is no cost to attend but pre-registration is required.

    Eclipse Embedded Day in Stuttgart would like to thank our sponsors Band XI International, Eclipse Foundation, itemis and MicroDoc who have made it possible to offer a no-cost event.

  • Celebrate Galileo at an Eclipse DemoCamp posted Apr 22, 2009

    To celebrate the Galileo release in June, the Eclipse Foundation is inviting individuals to attend Eclipse DemoCamps around the world. The DemoCamps are informal meetings where fans can present what they’re doing with Eclipse. Events are planned from May 18 to June 26 and locations are listed on the DemoCamp wiki.

    We encourage individuals to showcase projects and products they’re developing with Eclipse, especially technology related to the Galileo release. The demos can be of open source projects, research projects, applications based on Eclipse, commercial products using Eclipse or anything Eclipse-related that you think will be of interest to the attendees.

    To join as a presenter or attendee at a DemoCamp, please add your name on the wiki page for your local event. Space may be limited at some locations. If there isn’t a DemoCamp near you, why not try to organize one in your city?

  • Eclipse Community Survey: Tell us what you are using posted Apr 14, 2009

    The Eclipse Foundation is requesting your participation in a community survey. The intent of the survey is to better understand how individuals use development tools, use open source software and interact with the Eclipse community. The Eclipse Foundation plans to publish the survey results in June 2009.

    Everyone is invited to complete the survey before May 15, 2009. It should take about 5 minutes to complete. All responses will be held in confidence. As a token of appreciation, survery participants will be entered into a draw for an opportunity to win Eclipse shirts and jackets.

    Thank you in advance for your support.

  • Spring 2009 Eclipse Training Series Starts April 6 posted Apr 01, 2009
    The Eclipse spring 2009 training class series is starting soon on April 6, 2009. 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 over 30 cities around the world during April and May. See the schedule for a complete list of courses and course descriptions.

    Eclipse members participating in the training series are Anyware Technologies, AvantSoft (Eclipse University), EclipseSource, eteration, Gerhardt Informatics, Industrial TSI, itemis, Obeo, The RCP Company, Soyatec, Third Millennium and Weigle Wilczek.

    Take advantage of this excellent learning opportunity and register for an Eclipse training class today!
  • Eclipse WebTools Education Releases Developing Web Applications with Standards Courseware posted Apr 01, 2009
    The WTP project is excited to release the first of the open courseware that will be a part of the WTP Education curriculum: WTP-101 Developing Web Applications with Standards. This open courseware covers developing Web Applications with Standards using W3C standard technologies, such as HTML, CSS, XML, XSD and XSL.

    The goal of WTP Education is to enable and educate WTP end-users by providing them quality resources for self-learning and to increase WTP awareness and usage by obtaining, creating and coordinating materials for tutorials, articles, webinars and other digital mediums. WTP Education offers courses designed to teach anything from XML, HTML and standards based Web development, to advanced topics such as Java Server Faces and Java Persistence.

    In the spirit of open source, you can contribute to WTP Education in many ways. Please provide your feedback, comments and corrections using Bugzilla and select Education as the component. Your contributions are important to us. For more information visit the WTP Education page.
  • Doors Open for EclipseCon 2009 posted Mar 24, 2009
    Community Members Announce New Innovations and Products

    ECLIPSECON 2009, SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 24, 2009 – EclipseCon 2009, the sixth annual Eclipse community conference, opens today at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. The conference features the latest Eclipse developments and provides a forum for attendees to discuss key business and technical issues facing the community.

    Clay Shirky, Adjunct Professor for the Interactive Telecom Program at NYU, and Jeff Atwood, blogger and CEO of stackoverflow.com, will deliver the opening keynote presentation. Wednesday's keynote will be given by Peter Vosshall, Vice President and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon.com, and Don MacAskill, Co-founder and CEO of SmugMug, and Thursday's keynote will be given by Tim Wagner, Principal Development Manager for Microsoft Visual Studio Platform and Kevin McGuire, Eclipse UI Architect and Design & Usability Lead at IBM.

    EclipseCon 2009 features technical talks and tutorials on a variety of Eclipse projects and technologies, including Equinox, Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), Rich Ajax Platform (RAP), Mylyn, Device Developer Software Platform (DSDP), Eclipse Modeling project and many others. EclipseCon 2009 also features the OSGi DevCon.

    There are 36 organizations participating as conference sponsors this year, including Gold sponsors BIRT Exchange, Blu Age, IBM, JBoss, Sopera, Sun Microsystems and Wind River. A number of Eclipse member companies are also announcing a variety of exciting new initiatives at this year’s conference.
  • Eclipse Community Awards Winners Announced posted Mar 23, 2009
    Awards Recognize Top Individuals and Technologies in the Eclipse Community

    ECLIPSECON 2009, SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 24, 2009 – The Eclipse Foundation announced the winners of its annual Eclipse Community Awards, which recognize the top individuals and products in the Eclipse community, yesterday on Monday, March 23, 2009. Recipients were honored at an awards ceremony yesterday on the opening day of EclipseCon 2009.

    The Individual Awards acknowledge people that have given time and resources to make Eclipse a better community. Winners were selected by their peers in an online vote. The selection of the Top Newcomer Evangelist award was based on the individual that answered the most questions raised on the eclipse.newcomer newsgroup.

    • Top Ambassador: Nick Boldt
      • The finalists are Mik Kersten and Tom Schindl.
    • Top Committer: Paul Webster
      • The finalists are Martin Oberhuber and Jason Weathersby.
    • Top Contributor: Benjamin Cab
      • The finalists are Dave Carver and Tom Schindl.
    • Top Newcomer Evangelist: Ed Merks
      • The finalists are Nick Boldt and Walter Harley.
    The Technology Awards recognize both Eclipse-based open source projects and commercial products. Winners were selected by a panel of judges from the Eclipse community. Nominated developer tools, Equinox applications and RCP applications were evaluated on their user interfaces, innovation and comprehensiveness.

  • Eclipse Announces First Release of Swordfish, a Next Generation ESB posted Mar 23, 2009
    The Eclipse Foundation announced today the first release of Swordfish, a next-generation enterprise service bus (ESB) that provides the flexibility and extensibility required by enterprises to successfully deploy a service-oriented architecture (SOA) strategy.
  • Eclipse Foundation Announces 2009 Board Member Election Results posted Mar 20, 2009
    The Eclipse Foundation announced the results of the Committer and Sustaining Members elections for representatives to the board of directors.

    Congratulations to Chris Aniszczyk, Doug Gaff and Ed Merks for being re-elected as Committer representatives. Boris Bokowski will join them as a new Committer representative. Mike Taylor will be returning as a Sustaining Member representative, joined by the newly elected Hans-Joachim Brede, Hans Kamutzki and Shawn Pearce.

    The Eclipse Foundation would also like to recognize the contributions of Robert Day, Mik Kersten, Jeff McAffer, Emma McGrattan and Tracy Ragan who are leaving the Eclipse Board after having served positions last year. The Eclipse community is very grateful for the many hours of effort these individuals contributed.
  • EclipseCon Starts In Less Than 1 Week; Register Today! posted Mar 16, 2009
    EclipseCon 2009 starts on March 23 in Santa Clara, CA. Register today!
  • Eclipse Announces Pulsar Initiative to Define a Tools Platform for Mobile Development posted Mar 10, 2009
    The Eclipse Foundation today announced Pulsar, a new industry initiative to define and create a standard mobile application development tools platform.
  • Finalists for the Eclipse Community Awards 2009 posted Mar 04, 2009
    The Eclipse Foundation congratulates the finalists for the 2009 Eclipse Community Awards.

    The Individual Awards recognize the people who have given their time to make Eclipse a vibrant and innovative community. Finalists were selected by their peers in an online vote. The selection of the Top Newcomer Evangelist is based on the individual that has answered the most questions raised on the eclipse.newcomer newsgroup.

    • Top Ambassador: Nick Boldt, Mik Kersten and Tom Schindl
    • Top Committer: Martin Oberhuber, Jason Weathersby and Paul Webster
    • Top Contributor: Benjamin Cabe, Dave Carver and Tom Schindl
    • Top Newcomer Evangelist: Nick Boldt, Walter Harley and Ed Merks

    The Technology Awards recognize some of the best Eclipse-based open source projects and commercial products. The finalists were selected from a pool of 64 nominations by judging panels from the Eclipse community.


    Winners for each category will be announced at an awards ceremony on March 23, 2009 at EclipseCon.
  • Register for the Spring 2009 Eclipse Training Series posted Mar 02, 2009
    The Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse member companies are pleased to announce the spring 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 24 different cities around the world from April 6 to May 29, 2009.

    Students who register before March 20, 2009 will receive a 5% discount on the registration price. See the schedule for a complete list of courses and course descriptions.

    Eclipse members participating in the training series are Anyware Technologies, AvantSoft (Eclipse University), EclipseSource, eteration, Gerhardt Informatics, Industrial TSI, itemis, Obeo, The RCP Company, Soyatec, Third Millennium and Weigle Wilczek.

    Take advantage of this excellent learning opportunity and register for an Eclipse training class today!
  • Eclipse Riena 1.0 is Now Available posted Mar 02, 2009
    The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the 1.0 release of Eclipse Riena, a platform for developing multi-tier rich client applications based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) and Equinox.
  • EclipsIST - Supporting the Turkish Eclipse Community posted Feb 17, 2009
    Eteration and the Eclipse Foundation are pleased to announce EclipsIST, the third annual Eclipse Technical and User Summit taking place in Istanbul, Turkey, April 28-29, 2009.

    EclipsIST 2009 is a two-day event of fully loaded parallel speaker tracks followed by a day of parallel power tutorials. With parallel sessions at any given time, attendees can choose to attend the sessions that interest them. All free of charge! It is a great opportunity to participate in high quality technical talks and tutorials delivered by Eclipse experts from around the World.

    Registration is now open. Attendance fees are waived but you must register in advance to attend. Registration provides access to all presentations, public receptions, lunches and the exhibit hall.

    EclipsIST 2009 would like to thank our sponsors Eclipse Foundation, eclipse Magazin, eteration, Eclipse Source, Gitti Gidiyor/eBay and Oracle who have made it possible to offer a no-cost event.
  • Announcing the Open Source Executive Strategy Summit posted Feb 06, 2009
    The Eclipse Foundation is organizing an Open Source Executive Strategy Summit on March 26 in Santa Clara, CA (same location at EclipseCon). The Summit is for executives who are responsible for their organizations open source strategy and participation. The purpose of event is to answer two questions: 1) 'What Open Source Strategies Are Working Today?' and 2) 'What Will Work in the Future?'. It will feature industry speakers, case studies and group discussions that analyze the different aspects of an open source strategy, including product strategy, licensing, development models and community building. Participants will have the opportunity to learn the success factor and challenges of existing open source strategies.
  • Eclipse Weather Forecast for February 5th, 2009 posted Feb 05, 2009
    The Eclipse Weather Forecast is a resource for technical and business decision makers in the Eclipse Ecosystem. The weather forecast has been updated as of February 5th, 2009.
  • Eclipse Announces Latest PHP Development Tools (PDT) posted Jan 21, 2009
    The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce a major upgrade to the popular Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) project. PDT is an open source development tool that provides all the basic code editing capabilities developers need to get started developing PHP applications. The focus of the PDT 2.0 release is to add support for the object-oriented programming features of PHP and to improve the overall user experience of the PDT environment.
  • Eclipse Announces Gold Sponsors for EclipseCon 2009 posted Jan 20, 2009
    The Eclipse Foundation today announced the Gold Sponsors for EclipseCon 2009, which will take place March 23-26 in Santa Clara, Calif. Actuate, Blu Age, IBM, Red Hat, Sopera and Wind River have all agreed to act as the premier Gold Sponsors for the annual Eclipse community conference.

    “The support and leadership of these companies make EclipseCon a world-class conference,” said Mike Milinkovich. “These companies also demonstrate the diversity of the Eclipse community by offering solutions in a wide variety of markets, including business intelligence, modeling, enterprise Java development, SOA runtimes and embedded development."
  • Register for Eclipse Banking Day in London posted Dec 22, 2008
    The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the Eclipse Banking Day in London, on February 12, 2009 in London.
  • EclipseCon 2009 Program Announced posted Dec 16, 2008
    The technical program for EclipseCon 2009 has been selected and is now available on the conference web site. The number and quality of submissions received continues to increase each year, so the job of the program committee is always very difficult. Thanks to all who sent in proposals.

    Talks at EclipseCon 2009 include 80 long talk sessions and over 90 short talk sessions, organized within 18 tracks. The different tracks reflect the diversity of the Eclipse community and include:
    EclipseCon 2009 will be held March 23-26 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. People that register before December 31, 2008 will qualify for the early registration price. Sign up today to be a part of the best EclipseCon yet!
  • EclipseCon 2009 Open for Registration posted Nov 13, 2008
    Registration for EclipseCon 2009 is now open. EclipseCon will be held March 23-26 in Santa Clara, CA. The "Very Early" registration price is availabe until December 31 and gives a 40% discount off the onsite price. A single fee provides access to the entire conference.

    Three great keynotes have been selected for EclipseCon this year. They are:
    • The Social Mind as a Runtime Environment: Designing Like Groups Matter - Clay Shirky and Jeff Atwood
    • Building Applications for the Cloud with Amazon Web Services - Peter Vosshall and Don MacAskill
    • Darwin Among the IDEs - Dr. Tim Wagner and Kevin McGuire

    Don't miss out on this excellent opportunity - register for EclipseCon today!
  • Updated Web Site Terms of Use posted Nov 12, 2008
    The Eclipse Foundation has updated the eclipse.org web site terms of use. The new terms of use are available at www.eclipse.org/legal/termsofuse.php. A more detailed explanation of the updates is available at www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20081112_termsofuse.php.
  • Reminder: Register for Eclipse Banking Day in NYC posted Nov 10, 2008
    Remember to register for Eclipse Banking Day in NYC on December 9, 2008. This is a day-long event for senior technical developers, architects and managers in the finance industry to learn how to better leverage Eclipse technology and the Eclipse community as part of their development strategy. Attendees will have the chance to hear speakers from Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, RBC Capital and UBS plus experts from the Eclipse community. Attendees must be employees or contractors of a financial institution. There is no cost to attend but pre-registration is required.
  • Eclipse Summit Europe Starts Soon - Register Now! posted Nov 03, 2008
    Eclipse Summit Europe starts on November 18 in Ludwigsburg Germany. If you plan on attending, don't forget to register today.
  • EclipseCon 2009 Call for Participation posted Oct 24, 2008
    The Eclipse Foundation is inviting all members of the community to submit ideas for tutorials, long talks, short talks, posters and birds of a feather sessions for EclipseCon 2009. The categories for submission this year include Runtime, C/C++, Tools, Mobile and Embedded, Modeling, Reporting, SOA, Test & Performance, Emerging Technology, and Business and Industry Verticals.

    If you have expertise building and working with Eclipse, share your knowledge with the Eclipse community by making a submission today. Details can be found on the EclipseCon web site. The deadline for tutorial and talk proposals is November 24, 2008.

    EclipseCon 2009 will be held March 23-26 in Santa Clara, CA.
  • Announcing Eclipse Banking Day in NYC posted Oct 22, 2008
    The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce a new event, called Eclipse Banking Day in NYC, on December 9, 2008 in New York City.
  • Attend an Eclipse DemoCamp and Connect with the Community posted Oct 15, 2008
    During November 2008, the Eclipse Foundation is inviting individuals to attend DemoCamps around the world. The Eclipse DemoCamps are an opportunity to showcase all of the cool, interesting technology being built by the community. They are also an opportunity for you to meet Eclipse enthusiasts in your city.
  • New Eclipse MTJ Release Eases Cross Platform Development for Mobile Java Applications posted Oct 15, 2008
    The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the new release of the Eclipse Mobile Tools for Java Project (MTJ).
  • Eclipse Ganymede SR1 Packages Available for Download posted Sep 26, 2008
  • Eclipse Summit Europe Keynotes Announced posted Sep 16, 2008
    The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the keynote speakers for the Eclipse Summit Europe conference, to be held November 19-20 in Ludwigsburg, Germany. The two keynote speakers will be:
    • David Wood, Executive VP Research at Symbian. Mr. Wood’s talk ‘Why Should the Mobile World Go Open Source?’ will be his reflections on the possible upsides and downsides when open source software systems are applied in the fast-moving helter-skelter world of mobile phones.
    • Dave Thomas, Founder and Chairman of Bedarra Research Labs. Mr. Thomas’s talk ‘Next Generation Embedded Software – The Imperative Is Agility!’ will speak to new ideas in embedded product development.
  • New Global Eclipse Training Series Launch in 31 Cities posted Sep 09, 2008
    The Eclipse Foundation, in partnership with 14 Eclipse Foundation members, is pleased to announce a new Eclipse Training Series to be held in 31 cities around the world. The instructor-led training courses will be held from November 3 to December 13, 2008 and feature classes on Eclipse RCP (Basic and Advanced), Eclipse Equinox and Eclipse Modeling technologies.
  • Submit an Eclipse Summit Europe Talk by September 1 posted Aug 25, 2008
    The deadline for the Eclipse Summit Europe Call for Papers is Monday, September 1, 2008. Eclipse Summit Europe is the Eclipse Foundation’s annual community event for the European Eclipse ecosystem and is scheduled for November 19-20 in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
  • Winners of the Ganymede Around the World Contest Announced posted Aug 12, 2008
    In June and July, Eclipse held a Ganymede Around the World Contest for individuals to submit their reviews of the Ganymede release. Over 600 reviews and messages were received from more than 70 different countries. All submissions can be seen on the Ganymede Around the World map. The reviews have been judged and the results are in.
  • Eclipse Delivers Its Annual Release Train posted Jun 25, 2008
    The Eclipse Foundation and the entire Eclipse community are pleased to announce the availability of the Ganymede Release, the annual release train developed by the Eclipse community. The Ganymede Release is a coordinated release of 23 different Eclipse project teams that represents over 18 million lines of code.
  • Make yourself known in our Ganymede Around the World Contest posted Jun 06, 2008
    We want to hear how you're using the Eclipse projects in the Ganymede release. Write a blog post, create a screencast/video, or record a podcast telling the world what's great or what you dislike about Ganymede. For your efforts, we'll send you an Eclipse shirt.
  • Eclipse Summit Europe Call for Papers Now Open posted May 26, 2008
    The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the 3rd annual Eclipse Summit Europe on November 19-20, 2008, in Ludwigsburg, Germany. The Eclipse Summit is the Foundation’s premier event designed to create opportunities for the European Eclipse community to explore, share, and collaborate on the latest ideas and information about Eclipse and its members.
  • Eclipse Summit Europe Vorschläge für Konferenzbeiträge können jetzt eingereicht werden posted May 26, 2008
    ie Eclipse Foundation veranstaltet vom 19. – 20. November 2008 ihren dritten Europa-Jahresgipfel, den „Eclipse Summit“, in Ludwigburg. Die Konferenz stellt den bedeutendsten Event für die europäische Eclipse Community dar. Hier erhalten die Teilnehmer die aktuellsten Informationen über die Eclipse Technologie, die Eclipse Foundation und deren Mitglieder, können sich austauschen sowie Kontakte für Kooperationen knüpfen.
  • EclipseDay At Googleplex - Register Today posted May 15, 2008
    Eclipse Day at the Googleplex is a half day event for developers to learn about different Eclipse projects and related technologies. You are invited to attend and listen as experts from the Eclipse projects, Google and eBay share their experiences of using Eclipse. It's also a great opportunity for you to meet and network with other Eclipse enthusiasts. There is no cost to attend, but pre-registration is required.
  • Eclipse DemoCamps - Ganymede Edition posted Apr 21, 2008
    To celebrate the Ganymede release in June, the Eclipse Foundation is inviting individuals to organize and attend Eclipse DemoCamps around the world.
  • Eclipse Party at JavaOne 2008 posted Apr 15, 2008
    The Eclipse Foundation is hosting a party for the Eclipse community at JavaOne. If you will be attending the conference, this is your opportunity to connect with other Eclipse fans and to have some fun. The party will happen Wednesday, May 7 from 7:00 pm-10:00 pm at the ThirstyBear Restaurant & Brewery.
  • Eclipse Expands Open Source Technologies for Embedded and Mobile Developers posted Apr 15, 2008
    The Eclipse Foundation today announced new initiatives to develop open source technologies for embedded and mobile developers. The new initiatives, part of the Eclipse Device Software Development Platform (DSDP) Project, make it easier for developers to debug, manage and deploy software on embedded and mobile devices. These new projects build on the continued success the Eclipse community has had in creating open source technology for the embedded and mobile industry.
  • Early Bird Price on RCP Training Ends Mar. 31 posted Mar 31, 2008
    The Eclipse Foundation, in partnership with member companies, is holding RCP training classes May 19-June 13 around the world. Register by Monday, March 31 for a 10% early bird discount.
  • Eclipse Kicks Off Annual EclipseCon Conference posted Mar 18, 2008
    The Eclipse Foundation today welcomed participants to EclipseCon 2008, the fifth annual Eclipse community conference, being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. EclipseCon 2008 will feature the latest Eclipse developments and will provide a forum for attendees to discuss key business and technical issues facing the community.
  • Eclipse Foundation Community Award Winners Announced posted Mar 18, 2008
    The Eclipse Foundation today announced the winners of its annual Eclipse Community Awards, which recognize the top individuals and products in the Eclipse community. Recipients were honored at an awards ceremony yesterday on the opening day of EclipseCon 2008.
  • Eclipse Announces EclipseLink Project to Deliver JPA 2.0 Reference Implementation posted Mar 17, 2008
    The Eclipse Foundation today announced that Sun, the lead for the Java(TM) Persistence API (JPA) 2.0, JSR 317 standard has selected the EclipseLink project as the reference implementation. The Eclipse Persistence Services Project (EclipseLink), led by Oracle, delivers an open source runtime framework supporting key persistence standards. The EclipseLink project provides a rich set of services that address complex mapping, performance and scalability and advanced functionality required for enterprise Java applications.
  • Eclipse Announces New Runtime Initiative around Equinox posted Mar 17, 2008
    The Eclipse Foundation today announced a new initiative to develop and promote open source runtime technology based on Equinox, a lightweight OSGi compliant runtime. While Eclipse is well known for its widely used development tools, this initiative establishes a community of Eclipse open source projects focused on runtime technology that provides a more flexible approach to building and deploying software on mobile, desktop and server environments.
  • Eclipse Foundation Announces 2008 Board Member Election Results posted Mar 14, 2008
  • EclipseCon 2008 starts on March 17; Last week to register posted Mar 10, 2008
  • Finalists Announced for Eclipse Community Awards 2008 posted Mar 04, 2008
    The Eclipse Foundation congratulates the finalists for the 2008 Eclipse Community Awards.
  • Eclipse Europa Winter Maintenance Packages Are Now Available for Download posted Feb 29, 2008
  • Ganymede M5 Packages Are Now Available for Download posted Feb 27, 2008
  • EclipseCon starts in less than 3 weeks, so don't forget to register today! posted Feb 27, 2008
  • Eclipse Releases Its First User-Centric Identity Framework posted Feb 21, 2008
    The Eclipse Foundation today announced the availability of Eclipse Higgins 1.0, a freely downloadable identity framework designed to integrate identity, profile and social relationship information across multiple sites, applications and devices using an extensible set of components.
  • Eclipse RCP Training Series Announced posted Feb 20, 2008
    The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce a new series of RCP training classes, to be held between May 19 and June 13. In partnership with Eclipse member companies, the RCP training series is to provide in-depth education for developers building Eclipse RCP-based applications.
  • Eclipse Riena project enhances building enterprise applications using Eclipse RCP posted Feb 13, 2008
    The Eclipse Foundation and compeople AG today announced that Riena has been successfully established as an open-source project within the Eclipse community. The Riena project will provide a homogeneous platform for business enterprise applications from the user interface to the back-end integration, based entirely on the Eclipse Equinox platform. By doing so, Riena will make it easier and much more comfortable to build multi-tier enterprise client/server applications, using Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform).
  • EclipseCon Early Registration Deadline is February 14; Register Today! posted Feb 11, 2008
    Time is running out for Early Registrations to EclipseCon. Register Now!
  • Voting for the Individual Eclipse Awards is Open posted Jan 30, 2008
    Nominations for the Eclipse Community Awards in the individual category are complete and voting has opened for the nominees. Congratulations to all the worthy candidates! Show your appreciation to the people that have made Eclipse a stronger community by casting your vote.
  • Ganymede M4 packages now available for testing posted Jan 24, 2008
    For those that like to be using the latest and greatest, the Ganymede M4 packages are now available from the Eclipse Packaging Project (EPP) download site.
  • EclipseCon 2008 Attracts Eleven Industry-Leading Companies as Gold Sponsors posted Jan 22, 2008
    The Eclipse Foundation today announced the support of eleven industry-leading companies as Gold Sponsors for EclipseCon 2008, the annual conference of the Eclipse community.
  • Send in your nominations for the Eclipse Community Awards; Deadline is January 25 posted Jan 21, 2008
    The deadline for nominations for the Annual Eclipse Community Awards is fast approaching. Visit http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/eclipseawards/awards_nominations.php for more information.
  • Eclipse & OMG Symposium - Call for Contributions posted Dec 19, 2007
    Eclipse and OMG are jointly organising two one-day symposia to promote and build on the partnership between Eclipse's open source software and OMG's open standards - one as part of EclipseCon 2008 in Santa Clara, the other during the OMG Technical Meeting in Ottawa. Each symposium will be organised as a series of discussion sessions on corresponding OMG standards and Eclipse projects. In each case the purpose will be to discuss the alignment between current standard and implemented software, and identify areas where the cooperation could be further improved in future.
  • Nominations for the Eclipse Community Awards 2008 are Open posted Dec 17, 2007
    The Eclipse Community Awards are an annual event designed to show appreciation to individuals and technologies that make Eclipse a stronger community. There are two categories of awards - individual and technology. The Eclipse Foundation is now accepting nominations for the awards, so show your love and nominate a person or product that has made a difference.
  • The EclipseCon 2008 Technical Program Rocks! posted Dec 13, 2007
    The EclipseCon 2008 technical program has been selected and is now available on the conference web site. Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal to the program committee. The number and quality of submissions received was tremendous so the program committee had a difficult time selecting the sessions, but it has made the final program exceptionally strong.
  • Now you can make a donation to Eclipse posted Dec 03, 2007
    The Eclipse Foundation has launched a new system to allow individuals to make a financial donation to the Eclipse Foundation. The donations will be used to help fund the operations of the Eclipse community, such as extra hardware for open source projects, increase bandwidth and sponsorship of Eclipse community events.
  • Remember to submit a proposal for EclipseCon 2008; Deadline is November 19. posted Nov 13, 2007
  • Results of the Eclipse Community Survey posted Nov 06, 2007
    The Eclipse Foundation and IDC have released the results of a comprehensive survey of the Eclipse Community conducted during the summer of 2007.
  • Eclipse Hibachi Project Unites Ada Suppliers in Common Environment posted Nov 05, 2007
    The Eclipse Foundation today announced the creation of a new open-source project called Hibachi. The Hibachi project provides an industrial-strength, vendor-neutral Ada integrated development environment (IDE) that also serves as a platform for other contributors to provide value-added functionality for Ada developers. Hibachi is a sub-project of the Eclipse Tools Project, and it parallels and complements CDT, the C/C++ Development Tooling project, providing a multi-language native embedded software development environment. The name Hibachi is an anagram honoring the late Jean Ichbiah, lead designer of the Ada language.
  • Fifth Annual Eclipse Community Conference Announces Keynotes posted Nov 01, 2007
    The keynote speakers for EclipseCon 2008 will feature well known industry speakers including Cory Doctorow, science fiction author and open source advocate; Dan Lyons, also known as the Fake Steve Jobs; and Sam Ramji, Director at Microsoft Open Source Labs.
  • See Cool Stuff, Meet Interesting People - Attend an Eclipse DemoCamp posted Oct 22, 2007
    During the months of November and December, we are inviting individuals to organize and attend Eclipse DemoCamps around the world. Eclipse DemoCamp is an opportunity to showcase all of the interesting technology being built by the Eclipse community. It is also an opportunity for you to meet Eclipse enthusiasts in your city.
  • Submit a Talk or Tutorial for EclipseCon 2008 posted Oct 16, 2007
    It is now time to submit your talk or tutorial for EclipseCon 2008. The entire Eclipse community is invited to submit ideas for tutorials, long talks, short talks, posters and birds-of-a-feather sessions.
  • Eclipse Releases First Ajax Platform Based on OSGi posted Oct 15, 2007
    The Eclipse Foundation today announced the availability of Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) 1.0, a freely downloadable Ajax platform for creating and deploying Rich Internet Applications.
  • Plan to attend the Eclipse Foundation party at Eclipse World posted Oct 09, 2007
    The Eclipse Foundaiton invites you to attend a party at the upcoming Eclipse World conference. A number of the Eclipse project leaders and committers will be on hand to demo their projects and answer your questions. Come early to chat and network with some of the leaders of the Eclipse projects.
  • Eclipse Europa Fall Maintenance Release out now! posted Oct 04, 2007
    Visit our Downloads page to grab the Europa Fall Maintenace Release.
  • Participate in the Eclipse Aperi survey posted Oct 02, 2007
    The Aperi Project is looking for participants for their survey. Visit the Aperi Homepage for more information
  • Last chance to register for Eclipse Summit Europe! Sign up by October 7. posted Oct 01, 2007
    Eclipse Summit Europe features over 60 technical talks and keynotes from Erich Gamma of IBM and Joerg Sievert of SAP.
  • Less than 2 weeks to go until Eclipse Summit Europe. Register Now! posted Sep 25, 2007
    The Eclipse Summit Europe program has over 60 in-depth sessions including consumer stories, demonstrations, Europa project updates, and New & Noteworthy projects.
  • Eclipse Announces New Tools for PHP Developers posted Sep 18, 2007
    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.
  • ESE Early Registration Deadline is Thursday, September 6 posted Aug 30, 2007
    Register soon! Early bird registration pricing for ESE ends Thursday, September 6, 2007.
  • Early Discount for RCP Training Ends Friday, August 31 posted Aug 27, 2007
    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.
  • Eclipse Community Survey posted Aug 16, 2007
    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!
  • Eclipse Process Framework 1.2.0 Released! posted Aug 07, 2007
    The Eclipse Process Framework team is proud to announce the release of EPF 1.2.0. Visit the New and Noteworthy page to find out more.
  • Announcing a New Eclipse RCP Training Series posted Jul 31, 2007
    The Eclipse Foundation, in partnership with Eclipse training companies Anyware Technologies, AvantSoft, BREDEX, Industrial TSI, Innoopract and WeigleWilczek, are pleased to announce a series of RCP training classes. Classes will occur between September 17 and October 5 and will take place in Amsterdam, Berlin, Boston, Braunschweig, Brussels, Chicago, Denver, Luxembourg, Paris, San Francisco, San Jose, Stuttgart and Portland.
  • Eclipse Summit Europe Registration Opens posted Jul 19, 2007
    The Eclipse Foundation is hosting its Eclipse Summit Europe conference for the European community again this year. The second annual Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE) takes place on October 9-11, 2007 at Forum am Schlosspark in Ludwigsburg, which is in the Stuttgart region of Germany. The goal of the conference is to give the European Eclipse community a platform to collaborate, to promote cooperation among Eclipse projects, and to provide information to attendees about the Eclipse Foundation and its members. The Eclipse Foundation expects ESE to have a mixture of lectures covering Eclipse projects, consumer stories, and product demonstrations. The symposia is also an exciting event for the Eclipse ecosystem.
  • Web Tools Platform 2.0 Released posted Jun 29, 2007
    Eclipse Web Tools Platform 2.0 is available for immediate download and can also be installed as part of Europa. This major update delivers its key goals of improved quality, adopter readiness, harmony with other Eclipse projects, and many new features for end users. Eclipse developers will be particularly pleased with the debut of major features and specification updates to EJB3 JPA, JSP 2.0, JSF 1.2, Axis2 Web Services, server support, and source editing. This release also introduces Java EE 5 project support.
  • Eclipse Ships Largest-Ever Release of Leading Open Source Software Development Platform posted Jun 27, 2007
    The Eclipse Foundation today announced the availability of its annual coordinated project release, this year code named Europa. Europa features 21 Eclipse projects for software developers and is more than double the size of last year's record-setting release.
  • Eclipse liefert den bisher groessten Release der fuehrenden Open Source Software-Entwicklungsplattform aus posted Jun 27, 2007
    Die Eclipse Foundation kuendigte heute die Verfuegbarkeit ihres jaehrlichen koordinierten Projekt-Release an, der in diesem Jahr den Codenamen Europa traegt. Europa beinhaltet 21 Eclipse-Projekte fuer Software-Entwickler und ist mehr als doppelt so grob wie der letztjaehrige Rekord-Release.
  • Community Bulletin: OS Summit Asia posted Jun 19, 2007
    We are pleased to announce a new conference for the Eclipse community, called OS Summit Asia. This new conference is being organized in collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation and the Apache Software Foundation. The inaugural event will be held Nov. 26-30, 2007 in Hong Kong and is expected to attract open source developers from across Asia.
  • Write a Review, Win an Eclipse Shirt posted Jun 13, 2007
    We want to hear what you think of the Eclipse projects that are being released as part of Europa. In fact, we will give you an Eclipse shirt for writing a Europa review. One lucky winner will also win a pass to EclipseCon 2008 or Eclipse Summit Europe 2007.