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Seems like we’ve had a
real run on summits lately. Equinox and CDT summits, the Eclipse Summit Europe, OS Summit Asia is coming up and now the Eclipse
Summit on Runtime Technologies and Platforms is being planned. The casual
observer could quite reasonably be confused by all this summiting. Let me
explain a bit about the latest Runtime
Summit.
First, it is becoming
clear that Eclipse has a lot of really significant runtime related technology
in its projects. I recently asked Eclipse committers to list the runtime
related work in their projects on the Runtime
Technology Catalog wiki page. Within hours the page had quite a few
entries and I’m sure there are still more to come. Looking over the list you
see things like Equinox (of
course), ECF, EclipseLink, RAP, SwordFish, Riena, eRCP, … In many cases these are
significant chunks of production quality code specifically for aimed at
runtime scenarios.
Having noticed this
trend, the Foundation and a few project leads thought it would be a good idea
to get together the interested parties and plot a course for what clearly is
an accelerating trend. And so the Runtime Summit was born.
The main goal of the
summit is to understand and coordinate the various Eclipse runtime
technologies. What technologies do we have at Eclipse today? What is coming?
How are they related? What is happening in these technologies? How will they
affect other parts of Eclipse? How can the Eclipse community be mustered to
make the most of these trends? All of these are questions we hope to discuss
at the summit.
This event is not
intended to be a technical discussion (well, lets be real, we’re techies so
that is inevitable but it is not the driving purpose). Rather, a higher level
survey, coordination, strategy discussion between stakeholders. If you think
you are one of these stakeholders and would like to contribute concretely to
this event, check out the registration details on the summit wiki page.
Note that this has been a
bit late coming together. The deadline for discounted hotel bookings is
actually today!
See you there…
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