The Eclipse runtime underwent a paradigm change in the transition from version 2.1 to 3.0. The OSGi framework specification R3.0 was implemented. Parts of the Public API have changed in version 3.0. Version 3.0 contains a compatibility layer to give plug-ins written for the 2.1 API the

Fortify Software, Inc., a leading provider of security products that help companies identify, manage and remediate software vulnerabilities to mitigate enterprise security risk, today announced that Fortify has joined the Eclipse Foundation as an Add-In Provider.

While there I had the great pleasure of spending some time with Mike Milinkovich of Eclipse and Mike Taylor from Instations doing a webcast. They just released a new product RCP Developer and we spent some time talking about that and the advantages of the RCP.

'Java-driven code quality' was the topic of discussion during a recent SYS-CON.TV Power Panel discussion held at the Reuters studio overlooking Times Square in New York. Moderated by SYS-CON Publishing Director Jeremy Geelan, the panel featured industry analyst Judith Hurwitz of Hurwit

A project to enable developers to build AJAX-enabled Web applications using Eclipse technology has been proposed by Innoopract. The Proposal for Rich AJAX Platform (RAP), currently is in the review stage at Eclipse.org.

Eclipse thought-leaders Mike Taylor and Mike Milinkovich will discuss a new approach to building desktop and rich client applications in Java, offer rationale for using Eclipse RCP to create high performance cross-platform clients and describe how a combination of Eclipse RCP and emerg

The AJAX Tooling Framework (ATF) project passed its creation review and is now being incubated inside the BEA-lead Web Tools Platform (WTP) project at Eclipse. ATP is a new collection of Eclipse-based technologies designed to make it easier to develop rich Internet applications based o

Centric CRM has been named a Platinum sponsor of the first-ever Enterprise Open Source Conference. To be held in New York city June 5-6, the conference focuses on the incredible interest in open source solutions to critical business challenges now being shown by large corporations.

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.

As we enter 2006, there's nothing stopping the spread of Eclipse, the open source development environment. The steadily growing number of free and commercial plug-ins available attests to its success. It's now time to report on our experiences in developing the visual rules plug-in for

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.

Sybase will have a key presence at EclipseCon 2006, March 20-23 in Santa Clara, Calif. Sybase will demonstrate Sybase WorkSpace, a unified Eclipse-based application development environment. Along with other industry leaders Sybase will offer six developer oriented tutorials, focusing o

SYS-CON Events (www.event s.sys-con.com)announced today the first international 'AjaxWorld (TM) Conference & Expo'(w ww.ajaxworldconference.co m) 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

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

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

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

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

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.

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