AccuRev has announced it has joined the Eclipse Foundation as an Add-In-Provider to further its support and influence on open source standards within the software configuration management (SCM) industry.

The bits for WTP 1.0 were baked last Friday and are cooling off now in preparation for their 'official' release on 2005-12-23. However, if you have a pair of oven mitts handy, feel free to download it now and munch this tasty snack over your Holiday break. Unless we discover some late-...

The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to implementation of a universal development platform, will make the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) 1.0 release generally available the week of Dec 19th, 2005. Eclipse WTP 1.0 is an extensible, standards-based tool platfor...

The Eclipse Foundation will make the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) 1.0 release generally available the week of Dec 19th, 2005.

MyEclipse is based upon and significantly extends Eclipse 3.1 to include support for UML, XML, HTML, Struts, JSF, JSPT, JavaScriptT, CSS, EJB, Tapestry, Hibernate, Spring and database/SQL/ERD technologies.

Cape Clear's most recent product release provides a tooling environment for the end-to-end development of service oriented architectures (SOA) that is completely unified within the Eclipse environment. As a plug-in member of the Eclipse Foundation, Cape Clear will continue to build too...

The Koders Early Access Program monitors new code as it's created and visually notifies developers of opportunities to reuse existing code, without the need to leave their preferred IDEs.

Cape Clear 6.5 Extends ESB & SOA Leadership for the Enterprise. Mission-critical deployments are simplified through new unified development tools, standards-based security, and advanced clustering capabilities Despite the promises of vendors, for too long SOA applications have achieved...

The CDT team agreed upon several priorities for the next release of the CDT code base, including improved build management and debugging. A new indexer, called the Persisted Document Object Model, will also be developed to improve system performance. The group will also work on making ...

The book was written by Chris Judd and Hakeem Shittu. Chris is certainly a WTP expert. He gave a virtuoso performance on all aspects of WTP at the recent EclipseWorld conference in New York. Chris has also become a WTP contributor and is working on our online Help. In fact, I'll make a...

Eclipse Foundation executive director Mike Milinkovich recently made remarks critical of Microsoft's effort to bash the open source community. Milinkovich, in an exclusive interview with SYS-CON Media publishing director Jeremy Geelan earlier this year, had already stated his views in ...

I'm not sure how I feel about insurance though. With insurance comes lawyers and with lawyers comes complexity. It will be interesting to see how many takers this type of insurance has.

QNX also offers as part of its standard commercial product its own customized Eclipse plug-ins, such as a code 'dietician' that reduces memory footprint by eliminating redundant or inefficient code, and an application profiler that pinpoints problem algorithms and identifies functions ...

Logidex, the most widely used metadata repository for SDAs, makes it possible for organizations to govern the production process for reusable components, Web services and other SDAs within a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Logidex is the only software asset management product to f...

Bay Breeze Software has released SQL Edge 1.2. SQL Edge is an Eclipse Rich Client application that allows users to execute SQL queries, browse schema information, and visualize data relationships. With SQL Edge users can use only one query to retrieve data in a master table, and then b...

Oracle has announced it is spearheading a project within the Eclipse open-source community to support the Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 3.0 specification. This cornerstone for J2EE 5.0 will, with Oracle's support, 'significantly ease application development and improve developer producti...

This year it looks certain that a new participation record will be set, more than 16,000 votes have already been recorded, as more than 20,000 SYS-CON Media readers are estimated to cast their votes in this year's Readers' Choice Awards.

This conference is without a doubt the most well-organized software gathering I've ever attended. The logistics are ably handled by Wayne and Peggy Kovsky and family. There is virtually zero marketting hype here - no sponsors or demo booths, just solid technical talks.

Mono is the leading non-Microsoft implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) specification. The CLI is the foundation of .NET. Because Mono runs on a number of platforms, it is the main choice today for people who want to run .NET applications on non-Microsoft platforms...

Kevin O'Neill, author of Necessitas, has announced the release of version 0.4, a class-path container manager for Eclipse. Improvements include reduced startup time, an update to Ivy 1.2a, dependency update checking, and more.

Compuware Corporation 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 integration an...

QNX Software Systems announced that Doug Schaefer has joined the company as a senior software architect and has been appointed as the new project lead for the Eclipse C/C++ development tools (CDT) project.

IBM today announced plans to contribute keyintellectual assets to the open source community, in an effort to helpcompanies and software practitioners adopt and share best practices forsoftware development.

The Progress OpenEdge Division, an operating unit of Progress Software, a global supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, introduced its Progress OpenEdge 10.1 offering at its Progress Technology World event in...

RUP is a software process platform that has guided some 500,000 developers around the world in projects ranging from small-scale product development to large industrial-strength systems, according to IBM. It comprises what IBM says is 'a vast collection of methods and best practices fo...

The Apache Maven development team have released the first beta of Continuum 1.0 - their continuous integration server. Continuum is a continous integration server for building Java based projects.

An alpha version of the new Eclipse-based Flex Builder 2 - which will be sold for less than $1000 per developer and will include the ability to develop, compile, and deploy Flex applications that connect to XML and SOAP web services with no additional charges or server licensing requir...

In a move designed to illustrate its determination to stay at the forefront of the developer tools market, BEA Systems, Inc., announced the acquisition of M7, an Eclipse-based tools company based in Cupertino, Calif. The acquisition of M7 accelerates the delivery of BEA developer tools...

A Catalyst spokesperson said the company is 'very pleased to be part of this important Eclipse Project. Our Openmake customers will enjoy the benefits of our involvement as we work closely with the other selected proof-of-concept solutions to define the information-sharing process and ...

M7 Corporation announced NitroX Studio, an Eclipse-based browser-to-database development environment that provides professional level support for Hibernate, JavaServer Faces, Struts, JavaServer Pages and access to all popular databases including DB2, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server and Sybas...

Actuate Corporation has announced Information Object Designer, which enables application developers to significantly reduce the time spent in developing re-useable views of enterprise data. The Eclipse-based Information Object Designer enables organizations to quickly develop and deliv...

True interoperability among lifecycle tools came a step closer today as it was announced today that Catalyst Systems' flagship product Openmake has been selected as a proof-of-concept build solution for the Eclipse Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) Project.

Ideo Technologies, a leading provider of web application development tools based on Java technology, has announced SweetDEV Studio. Focused exclusively on accelerating and simplifying the development of web applications for J2EE platforms, Ideo Technologies has developed SweetDEV Studi...

'We are delighted to have a prominent UML tool developer for embedded real-time applications join the Eclipse Foundation,' said executive director Mike Milinkovich this week as I-Logix joined the Foundation as a full member of the Add-In-Provider and Eclipse membership at large communi...

The Eclipse JSR220 project provides tooling support for JSR220 specification runtimes. The projects Milestone 2 release provides Generic EJB 3 runtime support and a specific extension for Hibernates EJB 3 preview. The release provides runtime meta data configuration with forward engine...

Software AG, Inc. announced enhancements for its ApplinX legacy modernization software, including support for the open source Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE), the Fujitsu-Siemens BS2000/OSD operating system, as well as Arabic, Farsi and Turkish languages.

IONA Technologies, a world leader in high-performance integration solutions for mission-critical IT environments, and the Eclipse Foundation, a community committed to the implementation of a universal platform for tools integration, today announced that IONA has joined the Eclipse Foun...

The Eclipse foundation has unveiled the proposal for a new SOA Tooling Project, which will provide an extensible set of graphical tools for assembling and administering SOA-based infrastructure. Iona Technologies is providing the seed code for the project, submitting the Eclipse-based ...

The business rules engine 'visual rules' is a tool for the graphical modeling of business logic, and is fully integrated into Eclipse. Its new release 3.1 (for Java) is available now. It supports the developer with extensible modelling elements, the possibility to write own functions a...

Easy Website Builder is an Eclipse-based free-trial tool that enables non-technical users to start with J2EE and be able to independently create dynamic Web sites using a set of wizards, a visual editor and various drag & drop components as well as show various texts, images, links and...