http://eclipse.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from Ed Burnette en Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media SYS-CON Media Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:18:04 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss 10 http://eclipse.sys-con.com/node/99729 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 on average every day. A vibrant eco-system of developers, plug-in providers, authors, and bloggers has grown up around it. Eclipse has also gained the backing of the key Java vendors including BEA, Borland, IBM, SAP, and Sybase. Developers like Eclipse because it provides a great platform for building Java applications, and companies like it because it unifies their software tools under one open source umbrella.<p><a href="http://eclipse.sys-con.com/node/99729" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:45:00 EDT http://eclipse.sys-con.com/node/99729