<p>RT is designed to foster, promote and house runtime efforts in Eclipse .  
It is part of a larger <a href="http:/equinox-portal">Equinox Community</a> move to 
drive Equinox-base technology across a broad range of computing environments and problem domains. 
These efforts strive
 towards the common goal of providing a uniform component model across a wide variety of computing environments.  The 
 Equinox framework and OSGi form the basis of this infrastructure.  </p>
 
 <p>Eclipse RT projects target "clients" and "servers" across embedded devices, desktops, and enterprise systems, 
 and provide those intermediate software services which enable applications to be more easily and concisely 
 constructed across these environments.  This supports and extends the Equinox vision of a consistent 
 programming and component model where developers create application domain code that runs on a variety of platforms. </p>
 
 <p>By providing a consistent symmetric architecture, Eclipse RT technology enables developers to focus on the 
 business problem at hand and still have many system architecture options available at deployment time.
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