Recently I had a chance to chat with Maher Masri, the CEO of Genuitec, the company that offers the Eclipse-based Java IDE called MyEclipse. My goal was to find out why would I want to purchase this IDE if free Eclipse fits the bill for most of the developers.

Building objects in the Eclipse IDE is simple - it's a point-and-click solution. However, as applications built on the Eclipse platform mature the need for building outside of the IDE increases. This need can be driven by the development team that is striving to perform agile developme...

The WebLogic-Eclipse plug-in is designed to run the WebLogic Server from the Eclipse IDE. With the WebLogic-Eclipse plug-in, the WebLogic Server gets started and stopped from Eclipse. An application deployed in the WebLogic Server can be debugged from Eclipse with the plug-in. By insta...

While NetBeans ain't perfect, far from it, SWT and Eclipse aren't right for Java, says Joseph Ottinger; a position with which Henry Roswell disagrees. Read the first of a new series of 'Point/Counterpoint' discussions...and join the 80+ readers who have already weighed in on one side o...

Since Eclipse's first release in 2001, it has become a popular environment for Java development. In the period between March 10 and May 11, 2005, users downloaded over 17,000 copies of one of the production SDK releases and over 3,500 copies of one of the stable (milestone) SDK builds ...

Yahoo is joining rivals Microsoft and Google with its own blogging products.

In July IBM announced that the Rational tool set would be fully integrated within the Eclipse tool set and would provide an integrated set of tools to support the full life cycle of software development. Recently I was able to interview Lee Nackman, the CTO of the Rational division of ...

IBM is rewarding academics who develop innovative applications with Eclipse. The company announced today four recipients from the Australia & New Zealand region. Each is due to receive between $50,000 and $65,000 in IBM grants to further academic open source software creation.

'I've downloaded it, and it works fantastically. I've got the settings at 200Mb minimum and 350Mb maximum and Eclipse is very, very snappy.' With these words, Jon Eaves enthuses about a new plugin for Eclipse.

On June 1, 2004, the Eclipse Board of Directors named Mike Milinkovich the executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. The hunt had been on since Eclipse became an independent entity earlier this year. Here JDJ's Eclipse editor, Bill Dudney, talks exclusively with Milinkovich about t...

At JavaOne this week, the Eclipse Foundation, along with Instantiations, Inc., and BEA Systems announced the creation of 'Pollinate', a new open-source incubator project focused on creating an Eclipse-based development environment and toolset to be named Eclipse Pollinate.

Might Eclipse one day soon make OSes irrelevant? Thought of until now as being a Java-centric initiative, the Eclipse Foundation under its new executive director releases Eclipse 3.0 today, with its ambitious sights firmly set on making it not just an IDE but a language-neutral, univer...

ILOG has just introduced its new Business Rule Studio Developer Edition (BR Studio). Built entirely on the Eclipse IDE and based on ILOG JRules, BR Studio will, for the first time, provide Java software developers with the opportunity to develop business rule technology using the Eclip...

M9 has been out now for a couple of weeks, and wow, has the Eclipse team made some major progress! The tool has lots of new features (which we will look at shortly) but also has some great performance fixes and fleshing out of existing features. In particular the Ant editor works like ...

Aonix, an independent global company delivering complete solutions for safety- and mission-critical applications, has joined Eclipse. In addition to porting its Ada95, PERC and Ameos tool suites to the Eclipse platform, Aonix plans to deliver an Eclipse-based IDE.

Instantiations has begun shipping WindowBuilder, a new line of GUI construction tools for Java. This Java-based development suite is the first enterprise development product to support both the Eclipse-based standard widget toolkit (SWT) and Sun's Swing component technology in a single...

New research from Evans Data Corp. has found that Eclipse, the open source Java IDE, is experiencing very strong growth in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia Pacific (APAC) as well in North America. In APAC, the survey findings show a more than 70% increase in developers us...

This column contains an excerpt from one of the refactoring chapters in my book Eclipse 3 Live. The book will eventually contain similar sections for all the refactorings available in Eclipse.

JDJ's new online Eclipse columnist, Bill Dudney, has been using M8 for two weeks now and has accumulated a lot of notes of what he likes and doesn't like in this latest of the drops - the new Eclipse M8 drop - before we finally get to the feature-complete Eclipse 3.0.

Perforce Software has announced the availability of its Fast Software Configuration Management (SCM) system for IBM's WebSphere Studio Application Developer and Eclipse.

Already the contributor of a significant amount of technology to Eclipse.org, IBM now intends over time to align its entire line of Rational development tools with the Eclipse framework.

Since joining the Eclipse Consortium (now Foundation) in December 2003, Wind River has sponsored EclipseCon 2004 and is now further refining Workbench, its Eclipse-based development suite for embedded Linux.

Here's what's being said and written about Eclipse right now, culled by our editors from a variety of different sources for your reading convenience...

'The first Eclipse drop of spring contains a veritable shower of new features,' gushes the official download site for the latest Eclipse build, version 3.0 M8, released March 26.

This week, LynuxWorks introduced the new LynuxWorks Eclipse-based IDE. A Linux and Solaris-based development environment, it's powered by the Eclipse platform and provides developers of LynuxWorks' BlueCat Linux with complete control over creating, editing, compiling, managing, and de...

Well, you may have seen the Java Industry Newsletter's hot story, 'Eclipse versus NetBeans.' As an editor of this fine publication, it's my privilege to see all of our feedback arriving at my inbox. My first reaction was, oh please, not another IDE war. But I dutifully suppressed the u...

Sun is content to drive 'co-opetition' among Java IDEs, it seems. Still keeping itself outside Eclipse, Sun is going to be building all its future tools - in an initiative spearheaded by Java co-creator James Gosling - on NetBeans.

Parasoft has announced that its Jtest 5.0, the first development product of its type to automate all aspects of Java unit testing and coding standards compliance, is built on the Eclipse platform and fully integrated into the Eclipse workbench.

The following open letter is the the new Eclipse Foundation's response to Sun's recent Open Letter to Eclipse members. It bears the signature of the chair of the Eclipse marketing committee of the new Foundation, Mike Taylor.

Debugging, profiling, packaging - whatever you want, WSDD can do it all. IBM's WebSphere Device Developer (WSDD) is a sophisticated development platform for IBM's WebSphere Micro Environment (WME, also known as J9). Based on Eclipse, it's just right for those who like to work with Ecli...

(November 18, 2002) - Oracle Corporation has been elected a member of Eclipse, an open-source consortium that creates an open platform for development tools integration. As a voting member of the Eclipse Board of Stewards, Oracle will help create and define policies, standards, and the...