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   <p>As the Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation I get to review
     the project proposals for each and every new project joining
     Eclipse. As part of that I get to interact with the new developers
     joining our community. It’s one of the favorite parts of my job.</p>

   <p>2013 has seen a lot of new projects join Eclipse. In this article I
     am going to highlight a few of them that I think are particularly
     interesting. Then I will close off by talking about a few of the
     trends that I see emerging within the Eclipse community.</p>

   <p>Obviously I cannot cover every new project at Eclipse, and I am
     sure that I will be accidentally omitting many very cool projects.
     Use this article as a place to start learning more about what’s
     going on at Eclipse, not as a definitive list.</p>


   <h2>Some Cool Projects</h2>

   <p>
     <a href="http://eclipse.org/sirius/">Sirius</a>. The Eclipse
     community has been very active in modeling for a long time. In the
     past couple of years, the emergence of modeling tools for creating
     domain-specific language has been a hot topic. The <a
       href="http://www.eclipse.org/Xtext/">Xtext</a> project has been at
     the forefront of textual DSL interest and adoption. The new <a
       href="http://eclipse.org/proposals/modeling.sirius/">Sirius</a>
     project is a graphical analog to Xtext in that it allows you to
     create visual DSLs, and tools for them.
   </p>

   <p>
     <a href="http://vertx.io/">Vert.x</a>. Eclipse has had an active
     runtime community for years, but with the exception of <a
       href="http://eclipse.org/jetty/">Jetty</a> is has been almost
     entirely focused on Java and OSGi. Vert.x is a concurrent, polyglot
     application server based on the Java vitrual machine. It is one of
     the most watched Java projects on GitHub. In addition to being a
     very cool project in its own right, Vert.x was also the first
     project hosted by the Eclipse Foundation <a
       href="https://github.com/eclipse/vert.x">on GitHub</a>.
   </p>

   <p>
     <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/efxclipse/index.html">e(fx)clipse</a>.
     The e(fx)clipse project provides the tooling and runtime needed to
     use JavaFX from within Eclipse. Fundamentally, it provides a way to
     modernize the UI of Eclipse RCP desktop applications. It provides
     all of the JDT, PDE, CSS, e4, etc. support required to get JavaFX
     working with Eclipse for both development and deployment.
   </p>

   <h2>The Internet of Things</h2>

   <p>So I will admit it, I have a Raspberry Pi addiction. It all started
     with Benjamin Cabé’s greenhouse demo for the Eclipse M2M project
     that I first saw at FOSDEM 2012. After giving the demo numerous
     times at that conference, I decided that I really wanted to be able
     to run the demo myself. So I bought a Raspberry Pi, an Arduino Uno,
     and the full set of Seeedstudio sensors needed for the demo. And
     then with lots of help from Benjamin I was able to re-create his
     demo, to the point where I think I can do it justice. Of course,
     that got me hooked on playing with these wonderful little devices -
     to the point where I now own six Raspberry Pi’s, three Arduinos, and
     a BeagleBone Black. So the first group of cool projects is based on
     my personal interests in playing with these devices.</p>

   <p>
     <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/technology.kura/">Kura</a>.
     Based on Java and OSGi, Kura provides a container for M2M
     applications running in service gateways, as well as integrated
     development tools supporting the ability to run M2M applications in
     an emulated environment within the Eclipse IDE, deploy them on a
     target gateway, and finally remotely provision the applications to
     Kura-enabled devices on the field.I like Kura because it has the
     feel of a very mature codebase, with a lot of features for
     management, monitoring and provisioning real systems.
   </p>

   <p>
     <a href="http://eclipse.org/proposals/technology.smarthome/">Smart
       Home</a>. Also based on Java and OSGi, this project provides a
     platform to allow the integration of different systems, protocols or
     standards and that provide a uniform way of user interaction and
     higher level services for home automation. Smart Home has a cool
     visual builder for being able to integrate products from different
     vendors and using different home automation protocols into a single
     system. It basically provides you with all the tools you need to
     build your own residential gateway to manage your personal intranet
     of things.
   </p>

   <p>
     <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/technology.mosquitto/">Mosquitto</a>.
     The Mosquitto project provides a small server implementation of the
     MQTT and MQTT-SN protocols. It is the server side of <a
       href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/technology.paho/">Paho</a>’s
     client-side implementations of MQTT. I think Mosquitto is cool
     mostly because I think it’s great to see Eclipse projects
     implementing the protocols which are going to provide the basic
     plumbing for the Internet of Things. Besides, it runs on my
     Raspberry Pi, and turns it into a hub for my devices to talk to one
     another.
   </p>

   <h2>Trends</h2>

   <p>There are a couple of trends that emerge from 2013.</p>

   <p>First, the message that Eclipse is open to all programming
     languages and platforms is getting out there. We had numerous
     projects come to Eclipse in 2013 that were well outside our
     traditional Java, OSGi and tooling comfort zones.</p>

   <p>Second, Eclipse is becoming the open source center of gravity for
     the Internet of Things. We had ten (10 !) new IoT / M2M projects
     join the Eclipse community in 2013. Many of them were core
     technologies like protocols (CoAP, LWM2M joining our MQTT
     implementations), servers and frameworks (Mosquitto, Ponte, Krikkit)
     and device gateway platforms (Kura, OM2M). There is a wealth of
     technology joining our open community, and given how important this
     emerging domain is, it is great to see.</p>

   <p>And finally, the Eclipse community is reinventing itself as a
     leaner, faster open source community. We have been working hard to
     lower the barriers to contribution to all Eclipse projects, and to
     enable Eclipse projects to leverage popular tools like GitHub.
     Implementing Contributor License Agreements, the Common Build
     Infrastructure, Git, Gerritt, Hudson Instance Per Project (HIPP) are
     part of this. It has never been a better time to bring an open
     source project to the Eclipse community.</p>

 <div class="bottomitem">
   <h3>About the Authors</h3>

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         alt="mike milinkovich" />
         </div>
         <div class="col-sm-16">
           <p class="author-name">
         Mike Milinkovich<br />
         <a target="_blank" href="http://eclipse.org/">Eclipse Foundation</a>
       </p>
       <ul class="author-link">
         <li><a target="_blank" href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/">Blog</a></li>
         <li><a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/mmilinkov">Twitter</a></li>
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	<h1 class="article-title"><?php echo $pageTitle; ?></h1>

	<p>As the Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation I get to review
	the project proposals for each and every new project joining
	Eclipse. As part of that I get to interact with the new developers
	joining our community. It’s one of the favorite parts of my job.</p>

	<p>2013 has seen a lot of new projects join Eclipse. In this article I
	am going to highlight a few of them that I think are particularly
	interesting. Then I will close off by talking about a few of the
	trends that I see emerging within the Eclipse community.</p>

	<p>Obviously I cannot cover every new project at Eclipse, and I am
	sure that I will be accidentally omitting many very cool projects.
	Use this article as a place to start learning more about what’s
	going on at Eclipse, not as a definitive list.</p>


	<h2>Some Cool Projects</h2>

	<p>
	<a href="http://eclipse.org/sirius/">Sirius</a>. The Eclipse
	community has been very active in modeling for a long time. In the
	past couple of years, the emergence of modeling tools for creating
	domain-specific language has been a hot topic. The <a
	href="http://www.eclipse.org/Xtext/">Xtext</a> project has been at
	the forefront of textual DSL interest and adoption. The new <a
	href="http://eclipse.org/proposals/modeling.sirius/">Sirius</a>
	project is a graphical analog to Xtext in that it allows you to
	create visual DSLs, and tools for them.
	</p>

	<p>
	<a href="http://vertx.io/">Vert.x</a>. Eclipse has had an active
	runtime community for years, but with the exception of <a
	href="http://eclipse.org/jetty/">Jetty</a> is has been almost
	entirely focused on Java and OSGi. Vert.x is a concurrent, polyglot
	application server based on the Java vitrual machine. It is one of
	the most watched Java projects on GitHub. In addition to being a
	very cool project in its own right, Vert.x was also the first
	project hosted by the Eclipse Foundation <a
	href="https://github.com/eclipse/vert.x">on GitHub</a>.
	</p>

	<p>
	<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/efxclipse/index.html">e(fx)clipse</a>.
	The e(fx)clipse project provides the tooling and runtime needed to
	use JavaFX from within Eclipse. Fundamentally, it provides a way to
	modernize the UI of Eclipse RCP desktop applications. It provides
	all of the JDT, PDE, CSS, e4, etc. support required to get JavaFX
	working with Eclipse for both development and deployment.
	</p>

	<h2>The Internet of Things</h2>

	<p>So I will admit it, I have a Raspberry Pi addiction. It all started
	with Benjamin Cabé’s greenhouse demo for the Eclipse M2M project
	that I first saw at FOSDEM 2012. After giving the demo numerous
	times at that conference, I decided that I really wanted to be able
	to run the demo myself. So I bought a Raspberry Pi, an Arduino Uno,
	and the full set of Seeedstudio sensors needed for the demo. And
	then with lots of help from Benjamin I was able to re-create his
	demo, to the point where I think I can do it justice. Of course,
	that got me hooked on playing with these wonderful little devices -
	to the point where I now own six Raspberry Pi’s, three Arduinos, and
	a BeagleBone Black. So the first group of cool projects is based on
	my personal interests in playing with these devices.</p>

	<p>
	<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/technology.kura/">Kura</a>.
	Based on Java and OSGi, Kura provides a container for M2M
	applications running in service gateways, as well as integrated
	development tools supporting the ability to run M2M applications in
	an emulated environment within the Eclipse IDE, deploy them on a
	target gateway, and finally remotely provision the applications to
	Kura-enabled devices on the field.I like Kura because it has the
	feel of a very mature codebase, with a lot of features for
	management, monitoring and provisioning real systems.
	</p>

	<p>
	<a href="http://eclipse.org/proposals/technology.smarthome/">Smart
	Home</a>. Also based on Java and OSGi, this project provides a
	platform to allow the integration of different systems, protocols or
	standards and that provide a uniform way of user interaction and
	higher level services for home automation. Smart Home has a cool
	visual builder for being able to integrate products from different
	vendors and using different home automation protocols into a single
	system. It basically provides you with all the tools you need to
	build your own residential gateway to manage your personal intranet
	of things.
	</p>

	<p>
	<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/technology.mosquitto/">Mosquitto</a>.
	The Mosquitto project provides a small server implementation of the
	MQTT and MQTT-SN protocols. It is the server side of <a
	href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/technology.paho/">Paho</a>’s
	client-side implementations of MQTT. I think Mosquitto is cool
	mostly because I think it’s great to see Eclipse projects
	implementing the protocols which are going to provide the basic
	plumbing for the Internet of Things. Besides, it runs on my
	Raspberry Pi, and turns it into a hub for my devices to talk to one
	another.
	</p>

	<h2>Trends</h2>

	<p>There are a couple of trends that emerge from 2013.</p>

	<p>First, the message that Eclipse is open to all programming
	languages and platforms is getting out there. We had numerous
	projects come to Eclipse in 2013 that were well outside our
	traditional Java, OSGi and tooling comfort zones.</p>

	<p>Second, Eclipse is becoming the open source center of gravity for
	the Internet of Things. We had ten (10 !) new IoT / M2M projects
	join the Eclipse community in 2013. Many of them were core
	technologies like protocols (CoAP, LWM2M joining our MQTT
	implementations), servers and frameworks (Mosquitto, Ponte, Krikkit)
	and device gateway platforms (Kura, OM2M). There is a wealth of
	technology joining our open community, and given how important this
	emerging domain is, it is great to see.</p>

	<p>And finally, the Eclipse community is reinventing itself as a
	leaner, faster open source community. We have been working hard to
	lower the barriers to contribution to all Eclipse projects, and to
	enable Eclipse projects to leverage popular tools like GitHub.
	Implementing Contributor License Agreements, the Common Build
	Infrastructure, Git, Gerritt, Hudson Instance Per Project (HIPP) are
	part of this. It has never been a better time to bring an open
	source project to the Eclipse community.</p>

	<div class="bottomitem">
	<h3>About the Authors</h3>

	<div class="row">
	<div class="col-sm-12">
	<div class="row">
	<div class="col-sm-8">
	<img class="author-picture"
	src="/community/eclipse_newsletter/2013/december/images/mikem75.jpg"
	alt="mike milinkovich" />
	</div>
	<div class="col-sm-16">
	<p class="author-name">
	Mike Milinkovich<br />
	<a target="_blank" href="http://eclipse.org/">Eclipse Foundation</a>
	</p>
	<ul class="author-link">
	<li><a target="_blank" href="http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/">Blog</a></li>
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