Flex 2 is a good technology for development of rich Internet applications, and Adobe is already making some serious changes in the pricing policy to bring Flex 2 to masses. But to make it attractive to five million of professional Java developers they should offer Eclipse-based Flex B...

I'm in SF on the ground heading out to NetBeans day. I'll post my general impressions once there. I also have some stuff to do with the JCP. Should be interesting. I was just reviewing the session and there is as usual way too much to see but I'm going to get a change to hang out with ...

Sybase WorkSpace seamlessly combines data development, Web applications, services-oriented development of application (SODA) and mobile development with enterprise modeling. New functionality in Sybase WorkSpace 1.5 includes a Web application development component, increased support ...

Tons of interesting stuff came from today's NetBeans shindig. I am impressed with the progress they have made in just a year. The tool set is a lot better and seems to be making significant progress on the way to being a first class player. Yet another reason to be glad for Eclipse. Th...

JackBe at JavaOne announced support for two key industry initiatives that strengthen its position as a leading provider of enterprise-class AJAX solutions.The company said its AJAX development solution, the JackBe NQ Suite, will support the Eclipse development platform, enabling develo...

Borland released an upgraded version of Borland SilkTest, the enterprise-class functional testing product recently added to Borland's Application Lifecycle Management portfolio through the acquisition of Segue Software. SilkTest 8.0 offers new features designed to help organizations op...

Eclipse Plug-in Central (EPIC) makes it easier than ever for developers, software vendors and enterprises to find high quality open source and commercial plug-ins, tools and add-on services to enhance their Eclipse development.

XAware's new enhances the XAware Business Services XCelerator (BSX) family of pre-packaged solutions for common industry integrations for federating and enriching data in highly re-usable business services, the company reports.

Eclipse 3.2 RC1 is out! Author and software consultant R. J. Lorimer comments: 'Things are certainly slowing down in the realm of 'new features', but now things start to look really shiny and pretty for the upcoming final drop.'

About a year ago, when I wrote an article on Dreamweaver, I used half of Dreamweaver and half of Homesite. Today, as I write this, half my development is done in CFEclipse and the other half in Dreamweaver. Unfortunately I used Dreamweaver as a really advanced text editor, something it...

NextApp has announced the availability of the open-source AJAX-based Echo2 Web Framework and commercially-licensed EchoStudio2 Visual Development Tool. Echo2 unifies AJAX technology with a practical server-side framework to create a next-generation web application platform. For web ap...

With Eclipse Project 3.2 slated for official announcement in June, executive director Mike Milinkovich is optimistic about recent growth of the foundation, its updated ALF project, and the potential of Rich Client Platform technology.

CoWare Virtual Platform product family delivers new tools and technologies that support the creation, distribution, and use of virtual hardware platforms for device software development and validation. Virtual hardware platforms are models of the device hardware and the environment the...

I'm the 'tech chair' of SYS-CON's 10th annual SOA and WebServices conference that will take place on June 5-6 in New York City. Last week I've invited Joel Spolsky to make a keynote speech at this event. Guess what, Joel has accepted my invitation! If you have a chance to attend this t...

Unlike last year's event, there was no keynote speaker from Sun. Nevertheless, Sun's presence was noticed last week at the Santa Clara Convention Center. I'd like to mention a few high and low points here.

Eclipse Forum Europe offers topics such as Eclipse Core and RCP, Development, ALM, Model Driven Development, Eclipse know-how and Project Parade, presented by numerous internationally accredited experts, consultants, authors and groundbreakers of the Eclipse community.

The Eclipse Foundation kicked off its third annual EclipseCon 2006 user conference at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. This year's show is the largest gathering yet of the vibrant and active Eclipse community. The conference has attracted 46 exhibitors and 10 op...

Compuware Corporation and the Eclipse Foundation today announced the creation of the Tools Services Framework (Corona) Project, to be led by Compuware. The creation of Project Corona comes less than six months after Compuware officially joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Mem...

Individual and company award winners were announced at EclipseCon, being held in Santa Clara, CA. Categories this year include Top Ambassador, RCP Applications, and Tools.

SYS-CON Events (www.events.sys-con.com)announced today the first international 'AjaxWorld (TM) Conference & Expo'(www.ajaxworldconference.com) to take place on October 2-3, 2006, in SanFrancisco, California. The announcement came during the opening day of the'Real-World AJAX' seminar (...

A few months ago I stumbled on an IDE named Aptana and I instantly recognized that it was the perfect IDE for developers who have found it difficult to convert to CFEclipse. And why is it such a great replacement? For starters Aptana is actually based on Eclipse. That means it has all ...

JasperSoft Corporation, the market leader in open source business intelligence, today launched iReport Plug-in for Eclipse, a graphical report designer that lets developers using Eclipse quickly add sophisticated reports to their applications. JasperSoft's new Eclipse plug-in, as well...

After a year of development, Mylar 1.0, a task-focused development plugin for Eclipse, has been released. Eclipse 3.3M4 release will be supported by Mylar 1.0.1 on Dec 22nd. The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal software develop...

Today's trend is to integrate existing systems in a standard way to make disparate implementations interoperate. Web Services and XML came along with the ability to provide a standard communication interface between these systems, as well as the standard description language - WSDL - t...

ULC Visual Editor 5.0 for Eclipse 3.1 is now available for download from the Canoo website. This new release is the first version that runs with Eclipse 3.1 and the Eclipse Visual Editor 1.1. Porting to Eclipse 3.1 has greatly improved the overall performance and stability of the tool....

Active Endpoints has announced that the ActiveBPEL Designer (formerly ActiveWebflow Professional) will now be available for free download from the Active Endpoints website as well as for free redistribution by other organizations. ActiveBPEL Designer is a comprehensive Eclipse Ready BP...

Ok, I've been following the hype and speculation about Oracle buying JBoss but the latest bit that I read on Business Week really got my dander up. It's not the article from BW that was irritating at all it was the comment by some one claiming to be 'Siddharth Gulhati'. I don't know Si...

Choreography is the dark continent of Web services: few onlookers have traveled there, and many question whether there are any riches to be brought home from the trip. In the first place, choreographies bear such a striking resemblance to business processes that the novice might think ...

Exadel, Inc. announced AJAX support through its new version of Exadel Studio 3.5. Asynchronous JavaScript And XML, or AJAX, is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications, that is gaining widespread attention from the development community. Because AJAX applic...

CFEclipse is a community project that builds on the open source Eclipse framework to deliver expert, code-centric developers a new option for ColdFusion development. This article explains what CFEclipse is, gives a bit of the project history, shows off some key features, and explains h...

The Apache Woden project is a reference implementation of the W3C WSDL 2.0 specification which is now a Candidate Recommendation. The project is looking for help so here's a great opportunity for Java developers to contribute to the advancement of a major new Web Services standard. Her...

A J2EE application deployed in the WebLogic server may be debugged in the Eclipse IDE with the remote debugger provided by Eclipse. Without a debugger the error message has to be obtained from the application server error log to debug the application.

Lattix, Inc., the provider of innovative software architecture management solutions, today announced the immediate availability of Lattix LDM for Eclipse as part of the new 2.5 version of Lattix LDM. With this new Eclipse plugin, Lattix further extends the developers' capabilities to v...

ILOG JViews 8.0, the latest version is now shipping. The newest release of the ILOG JViews is the most complete suite of products that addresses all aspects of advanced visualization, including: Key visual components: Diagrams, BPM, Dashboards, Maps, Charts, Gantt charts, Automatic Lay...

We'll build a servlet that will demo some new Java 5.0 features and do some basic tasks like creating a session to track user visits to multiple Web pages. This code can easily be extended to store a user ID in the session that will travel with her as the site is navigated. The value o...

Annotation is a new Java language feature introduced in JDK 5.0. It has quickly become one of the most popular, and yet most controversial, language feature in core Java. New Java frameworks, such as EJB 3.0 and Hibernate 3.0, make extensive use of annotations to eliminate the excessiv...

'Our goal at the Eclipse Foundation has been to foster an open-source community that responds to the needs of commercial vendors and serves as a platform for innovation,' said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. 'The endorsement of Eclipse by Lattix will fur...

Nokia and the Eclipse Foundation today announced that Nokia has joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer and Board member. Nokia will support the work of the Eclipse open source community by contributing software and developers to a proposed new Eclipse project.

Compuware Corporation today announced at its OJ.X conference that the company has made a strategic, long-term commitment to the Eclipse Foundation by becoming an Eclipse Strategic Developer. As part of this commitment, Compuware will focus its efforts on application life cycle integr...

Palamida announced alliances with two major open source organizations, Eclipse Foundation, Inc. and SourceForge.net. In addition to extending the reach of its software intellectual property compliance solution, IP Amplifier, the new relationships will also ease open source developers'...