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Take Your Eclipse Development One Step Further With Instantiations Tools

Instantiations just recently received the IBM Rational Software Validation for WindowBuilder Pro and have also been listed in the SD Times Top 100 Most...

1 replies - 1180 views - 07/16/08 by James Sugrue in Articles

TopLink Makes Transition to Open Source

The Eclipse Persistence Services project (EclipseLink) has completed its incubation phase and the 1.0 release is available for download. This release completes...

5 replies - 2857 views - 07/10/08 by djclarke in Articles

Eclipse Ganymede - 18 Million Lines of Code Delivered on Schedule

As many of you may know the annual Eclipse release train, called Ganymede, is now available. This is the third year in a row that the Eclipse community has...

8 replies - 8909 views - 06/25/08 by Ian Skerrett in Articles

MyEclipse 6.5 Released, 5 Licenses for DZone Members!

Genuitec has announced two major product releases: MyEclipse 6.5 and MyEclipse 6.5 Blue Edition. DZone has 5 FREE licenses to give away! Both are available...

22 replies - 4165 views - 06/24/08 by Schalk Neethling in Articles

Eclipse 3.4 Hidden Treasures

Eclipse 3.4 "Ganymede" will be released in the upcoming days. I've been working with the RC builds for some time now and I like it. Eclipse 3.4 is a...

7 replies - 14888 views - 06/24/08 by Zviki Cohen in Articles

A Certification Creates Visibility of Your Eclipse Proficiency

Previously‚ monolithic IT spheres have broken up into countless special domains and each area comes along with a range of specific tools and methods. This...

2 replies - 770 views - 06/09/08 by James Sugrue in Articles

Collecting Usage Data in Eclipse

One of our challenges at the Eclipse Foundation is understanding how and what people are using Eclipse. Millions of people come to our web site to download the...

2 replies - 2192 views - 06/06/08 by Mike Milinkovich in Articles

The GMF Project: An Interview with Richard Gronback

In the first of a series of interviews and articles in the run up to the Eclipse Ganymede release on June 25th, I discussed the GMF project with Richard...

0 replies - 2468 views - 05/23/08 by James Sugrue in Articles

Strategic Objectives and Advantages of Model Driven Development

Markus Voelter  has defined model driven development as “a software development approach that aims at developing software from domain-specific models....

1 replies - 2996 views - 05/21/08 by Jeffrey Ricker in Articles

First Class Commercial Support for Spring Development

Recently I met up with Neelan Choksi, Chief Operating Officer at SpringSource, to discuss their first commercial product offering targeted at large enterprises...

1 replies - 3114 views - 04/16/08 by James Sugrue in Articles

Web-Based IDEs? Less Far Fetched Than You Think

Do you remember the Eclipse 4.0 "prototype" shown at the EclipseCon? Yes, the web-based Eclipse workbench?

0 replies - 2636 views - 04/15/08 by Elias Volanakis in Articles

Jetty: Rising Star of Server-Side Java?

Light and fast seems to be a recipe for success for Jetty these days, giving new life to server side applications in Java. As more and more developers realize...

6 replies - 5500 views - 04/14/08 by James Sugrue in Articles

Open Innovation in Healthcare

Open Health Tools is a new organization that is being started to create an common and open platform for healthcare products and services.  Here are some...

0 replies - 1211 views - 04/11/08 by Ian Skerrett in Articles

RIA Development Made Simple with Appcelerator and Eclipse

Appcelerator, a Rich Internet Application (RIA) vendor for SOA-based applications, recently released RIA Developer, an Eclipse plug-in that makes it easy for...

0 replies - 3530 views - 04/08/08 by James Sugrue in Articles

Why The Eclipse IDE Is Not At A Crossroads

After reading Paul Krill's article on InfoWorld about Eclipse IDE At A Crossroads, I have to disagree with some of the main points made. Paring down the...

0 replies - 1664 views - 04/04/08 by James Sugrue in Articles