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

The Apache Woden project is a reference implementation of the W3C WSDL 2.0 specification which is now a Candidate Recommendation. The project is looking for help so here's a great opportunity for Java developers to contribute to the advancement of a major new Web Services standard. Her

Programmers usually work in a so-called Integrated Development Environment (IDE). You can write, compile and run programs there. An IDE also has a Help thingy that describes all elements of the language, and makes it easier to find and fix errors in your programs. While some IDE progra

A J2EE application deployed in the WebLogic server may be debugged in the Eclipse IDE with the remote debugger provided by Eclipse. Without a debugger the error message has to be obtained from the application server error log to debug the application.

Lattix, Inc., the provider of innovative software architecture management solutions, today announced the immediate availability of Lattix LDM for Eclipse as part of the new 2.5 version of Lattix LDM. With this new Eclipse plugin, Lattix further extends the developers' capabilities to v

ILOG JViews 8.0, the latest version is now shipping. The newest release of the ILOG JViews is the most complete suite of products that addresses all aspects of advanced visualization, including: Key visual components: Diagrams, BPM, Dashboards, Maps, Charts, Gantt charts, Automatic Lay

We'll build a servlet that will demo some new Java 5.0 features and do some basic tasks like creating a session to track user visits to multiple Web pages. This code can easily be extended to store a user ID in the session that will travel with her as the site is navigated. The value o

Annotation is a new Java language feature introduced in JDK 5.0. It has quickly become one of the most popular, and yet most controversial, language feature in core Java. New Java frameworks, such as EJB 3.0 and Hibernate 3.0, make extensive use of annotations to eliminate the excessiv

'Our goal at the Eclipse Foundation has been to foster an open-source community that responds to the needs of commercial vendors and serves as a platform for innovation,' said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. 'The endorsement of Eclipse by Lattix will fur

Nokia and the Eclipse Foundation today announced that Nokia has joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer and Board member. Nokia will support the work of the Eclipse open source community by contributing software and developers to a proposed new Eclipse project.

Compuware Corporation today 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 integr

Palamida announced alliances with two major open source organizations, Eclipse Foundation, Inc. and SourceForge.net. In addition to extending the reach of its software intellectual property compliance solution, IP Amplifier, the new relationships will also ease open source developers'

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

The Eclipse Open Source Integrated Development Environment (IDE) (see http://eclipse.org) is rapidly gaining popularity among Java developers primarily because of its excellent Java Development Tools (JDT) and its highly extensible plug-in architecture. Extensibility is, in fact, one o

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

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

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.