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.

SYS-CON Radio interviews Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation

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

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

'I don't view this informal querying of a job aggregator to be the end-all absolute truth, nor do I really view it as a scientifically sound study,' writes Brandon Harper as he makes public the results of an job-market survey using data from indeed.com (an aggregator for job sites). 'M

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

Over the last several weeks I've received a few questions about remote debugging with Eclipse. I posted about this on my other article back in February but with not enough info for others to follow.

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.

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

'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.

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...

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.

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 letter was sent by Sun to the Eclipse board and membership on January 29, 2004 and then posted on January 30 as an open letter. We bring it here in full.

Novell says it's going to join the Java-based open source Eclipse IDE-for-tools initiative, which is about to be spun off from IBM, and standardize on the development environment in the name of uniformity and efficiency. Basically it's mimicking IBM.

Apparently the open source Eclipse consortium will be reconsidering the royalty-free access to API memorialized in its Common Public License (CPL). Smaller companies want to be paid for their IP.

Wind River Systems, the embedded operating system house that bought Berkeley Software Design Inc (BSDi), the 10-year attempt to commercialize Berkeley Unix, an adventure that doesn't seem to have netted the company much, has joined the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL).

The Eclipse Consortium welcomes thirteen new member companies, and announces four new open-source projects for tools and technology: COBOL, Project Hyades for Automated Software Quality, the Eclipse Modeling Framework, and the Koi Project.