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.

An alpha version of the new Eclipse-based Flex Builder 2 - which will be sold for less than $1000 per developer and will include the ability to develop, compile, and deploy Flex applications that connect to XML and SOAP web services with no additional charges or server licensing requir

In a move designed to illustrate its determination to stay at the forefront of the developer tools market, BEA Systems, Inc., announced the acquisition of M7, an Eclipse-based tools company based in Cupertino, Calif. The acquisition of M7 accelerates the delivery of BEA developer tools

A Catalyst spokesperson said the company is 'very pleased to be part of this important Eclipse Project. Our Openmake customers will enjoy the benefits of our involvement as we work closely with the other selected proof-of-concept solutions to define the information-sharing process and

M7 Corporation announced NitroX Studio, an Eclipse-based browser-to-database development environment that provides professional level support for Hibernate, JavaServer Faces, Struts, JavaServer Pages and access to all popular databases including DB2, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server and Sybas

Actuate Corporation has announced Information Object Designer, which enables application developers to significantly reduce the time spent in developing re-useable views of enterprise data. The Eclipse-based Information Object Designer enables organizations to quickly develop and deliv

True interoperability among lifecycle tools came a step closer today as it was announced today that Catalyst Systems' flagship product Openmake has been selected as a proof-of-concept build solution for the Eclipse Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) Project.

Ideo Technologies, a leading provider of web application development tools based on Java technology, has announced SweetDEV Studio. Focused exclusively on accelerating and simplifying the development of web applications for J2EE platforms, Ideo Technologies has developed SweetDEV Studi

'We are delighted to have a prominent UML tool developer for embedded real-time applications join the Eclipse Foundation,' said executive director Mike Milinkovich this week as I-Logix joined the Foundation as a full member of the Add-In-Provider and Eclipse membership at large communi

The Eclipse JSR220 project provides tooling support for JSR220 specification runtimes. The projects Milestone 2 release provides Generic EJB 3 runtime support and a specific extension for Hibernates EJB 3 preview. The release provides runtime meta data configuration with forward engine

Software AG, Inc. announced enhancements for its ApplinX legacy modernization software, including support for the open source Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE), the Fujitsu-Siemens BS2000/OSD operating system, as well as Arabic, Farsi and Turkish languages.

IONA Technologies, a world leader in high-performance integration solutions for mission-critical IT environments, and the Eclipse Foundation, a community committed to the implementation of a universal platform for tools integration, today announced that IONA has joined the Eclipse Foun

The Eclipse foundation has unveiled the proposal for a new SOA Tooling Project, which will provide an extensible set of graphical tools for assembling and administering SOA-based infrastructure. Iona Technologies is providing the seed code for the project, submitting the Eclipse-based

The business rules engine 'visual rules' is a tool for the graphical modeling of business logic, and is fully integrated into Eclipse. Its new release 3.1 (for Java) is available now. It supports the developer with extensible modelling elements, the possibility to write own functions a

Easy Website Builder is an Eclipse-based free-trial tool that enables non-technical users to start with J2EE and be able to independently create dynamic Web sites using a set of wizards, a visual editor and various drag & drop components as well as show various texts, images, links and

EclipseCon.org has announced that EclipseCon, the premier technical and user conference focusing on the power of the Eclipse platform will be held March 20-23, 2006 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA. The conference is targeted at a various cross section of people who use, build

Visual Paradigm DB Visual Architect for Eclipse (DBVA-EC) is a full-featured Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) plug-in for Eclipse which acts as a bridge between object model, data model and relational database.

Oracle, Sybase and IBM were the top sponsors of EclipseWorld 2005, the first independent conference for enterprise IT professionals who use Eclipse-based tools and technologies. The conference took place August 29-31, 2005 in New York City. Ted Bahr, president of BZ Media, said, 'Durin

'The goal of Eclipse is to create a universal development platform to enable global enterprises to develop software more efficiently,' said Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, Inc. 'Projects such as ALF enable vendors and users alike to provide the vision, i

The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the development of a universal development platform, and Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today announced approval of the new Data Tools Platform (DTP) project pro

'We are excited about the Data Tools Platform Project and how it will allow developers to stay ahead of the curve by enabling real-world development across a host of mixed software and hardware environments,' said David Tong, vice president of engineering, Sybase, as approval was annou

IBM Workplace Designer is designed to help script developers leverage existing skills, using forms, views, and scripts in a visual integrated development environment. Built on industry standards such as XML and JavaScript, IBM Workplace Designer allows developers to build a simple, re-

The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to implementation of a universal development platform, today announced the next generation of the widely adopted Eclipse CDT platform, a platform for building C/C++ development tools. Developed under the leadership of QNX Softw

The BIRT Eclipse-based open source reporting system for web applications, especially those based on Java and J2EE, is available for download in an updated version. BIRT has two main components: a report designer based on Eclipse, and a runtime component.

Borland's traditional focus on IDEs, run-times and ALM may be changing, with recent executive remarks stating the standalone IDEs are no longer a growing business for the company. Moving to Eclipse might be.

'In joining the Eclipse Foundation, Progress Software continues to deliver on its long tradition of providing superior software products and services that empower our developer community to dramatically improve their productivity, simplifying the process of building, deploying and inte

Ryman's blog can be read at ryman.eclipsedeveloper sjournal.com. He is the latest i-technology celebrity whose blog is syndicated on SYS-CON's branded blog-n-play community pages next to James Gosling, Marc Fleury, Ben Forta, John C. Dvorak, Alan Williamson and others.

The MyEclipse team has been hard a work on getting the next major upgrade to their flagship out into our hands. We recently had a chance to catch up with Maher Marsi the president of Genuitec to find our more about this latest release.

Patrick Kerpan, Borland's CTO, is among a group of three prestigious keynote presenters at the inaugural EclipseWorld 2005, to be held August 29-31 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York.

SourceLabs announced the SourceLabs SASH Stack for Java, a new open source stack undergoing certification. The new SASH stack integrates widely used open source application frameworks, including Apache Struts, Apache Axis, Spring Framework and Hibernate into coherent, tested, supported

Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, will be a featured keynote speaker at the first annual EclipseWorld Conference, scheduled for August 29-31, 2005, in New York City. He will be joined by Kent Beck, an expert on agile methodologies and author of 'eXtreme Pr

IBM has made announcements across a broad spectrum of its speech offerings, demonstrating progress with open-source based initiatives that can advance the speech self-service ecosystem

The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the development of a universal development platform, and Versant Corporation , an industry leader in specialized data management and data persistence software, today announced that the JSR220-ORM Project proposed by Versant

'The Eclipse ecosystem is huge and growing,' writes Eclipse Developer's Journal editor-in-chief Bill Dudney. 'The ecosystem will benefit from having an independent magazine devoted to the various aspects of Eclipse and I'm looking forward to Eclipse Developer's Journal becoming that so

The JSR220-ORM Project proposed by Versant in March of this year - to provide a common framework for delivering productivity and consistency in the important area of object-relational mapping - has been approved by the Eclipse Foundation.

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

First, the importance of adding companies such as BEA, Borland, and Computer Associates to our board cannot be overstated. Each of these companies competes fiercely with IBM in the marketplace. Each is making million dollar plus investments in Eclipse ($250,000 per year in dues, plus a

In coordination with the general release today of Eclipse 3.1, Innoopract announced the release of Yoxos 2.0 adistribution of Eclipse 3.1 and the choice of 168 installable features andplugins.

iWay Software, an Information Builders company and the leading adaptive software provider, today announced that it has joined the Eclipse Foundation, an open source community dedicated to the implementation of a universal development platform.