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| <h1>Eclipse Weather Forecast <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/eclipse/fnews"> <img src="/images/rss2.gif"></a></h1> |
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| Inspired by the <a href="http://linuxfoundation.org/en/Linux_Weather_Forecast">Linux Weather Forecast</a></p> |
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| Last Update: February 1, 2011.</p> |
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| <p>The Eclipse Weather Forecast is a resource for technical and business decision makers in the |
| Eclipse Ecosystem. Eclipse has an incredibly diverse ecosystem with hundreds of projects spanning |
| dozens of technologies, and this page will help |
| people quickly understand the latest releases of Eclipse packages and interesting technical trends.</p> |
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| <p> Please send feedback or suggestions on the weather report to |
| <a href="mailto:weather@eclipse.org">weather@eclipse.org</a>. |
| </p> |
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| <br><h1>Forecast summaries</h1> |
| <h2>Current Conditions</h2> |
| <p>The current release of the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/">Eclipse Developer |
| Packages</a> is "Helios" (released September, 2010), |
| and is built on the 3.6.1 Eclipse platform. The current release of |
| <a href="http://download.eclipse.org/equinox/">equinox</a> is 3.6.1 which is |
| based on OSGi Service Platform Release 4.2.</p> |
| <p> |
| For up-to-the-minute Project Review and New Project Proposal information, please see the |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/whatsnew.php">What's New with Eclipse Projects</a> page. |
| </p> |
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| <br><h2>Long term forecast</h2> |
| <p> |
| The next planned release of the Eclipse Packages is |
| <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/Helios_Plan">"Helios SR1" (3.6.2)</a> |
| (expected late February, 2011), and will be built on the 3.6.2 platform. |
| </p> |
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| <br><h2>Weather Advisories</h2> |
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| <p><b>Orion Project is underway</b> The |
| <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Orion">Orion</a> |
| is a proposed new open source project under the Eclipse top-level project. The project |
| is currently in the Pre-Proposal phase. To facilitate gathering of a community for this new |
| project, an initial code contribution has been made within the E4 incubator. |
| Orion's objective is to create a browser-based open tool integration platform which is |
| entirely focused on developing for the web, in the web. Tools are written in JavaScript and run |
| in the browser. Unlike other attempts at creating browser-based development tools, this is not an |
| IDE running in a single tab. Links work and can be shared. You can open a file in a new tab. Great |
| care has been taken to provide a web experience for development. |
| </p> |
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| <p><b>VM argument in eclipse.ini ignored in java 1.6u21</b> The |
| <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=319514">Bug 319519</a> raises |
| and important issue that the ecosystem may be facing whereby the 1.6u21 version |
| of the Java VM is ignoring arguments from eclipse.ini. |
| <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=319514#c5">Although</a> subsequent |
| builds of Java 1.6 have fixed this issue, it is still possible users may be accidentally |
| encounter and use this version.</p> |
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| <p><b>Increasing OSGi Runtime releated projects at eclipse.</b> The |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/virgo/">Virgo</a> and |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/gemini/">Gemini</a> are recent projects at Eclipse that focus on implementing |
| OSGi Expert group specificaitons, and complementary technologies. These projects are indicators of an |
| increasing activity and interest in runtime tehcnologies at Eclipse, specifically with OSGi at the core. </p> |
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| <p><b>Continued Interest in Modeling At Eclpse</b> The |
| The demand for new and interesting projects in the Modeling space continues. SAP has recently proposed |
| a project for Domain Modeling called <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/graphiti/">Graphiti</a>. |
| Interest in Eclipse modeling technologies, particularly in Europe, continues to be strong.</p> |
| |
| <p><b>Progress on common build infrastructure.</b> Recent hardware donations from Google, IBM and Intel |
| have given the Eclipse webmaster some much need resources to revamp the common build infrastructure over the |
| coming weeks and months. |
| </p> |
| |
| <p><b>Progress on git/egit/jgit</b> Webmaster has made progress for supporting early adopters from |
| certain eclipse projects wishing to use GIT as a source code repository. The Foundation is taking |
| a cautious and incremental approach, but it could be that GIT becomes a standard option for projects before the |
| end of 2010. |
| </p> |
| |
| <p><b>Jetty Project has moved to Eclipse.</b> <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/jetty/">Jetty</a>, a Java-based |
| web server and implementation of the Servlet Specification has moved to Eclipse as an Eclipse Project. We expect |
| increased activity around the use of Jetty in the Eclipse Ecosystem as a result. |
| </p> |
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| <p><b>Problems with Sun JVM 1.6.0.4 through 1.6.0.9.</b> If you are experiencing |
| <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/IRC_FAQ#Crashers.2C_Freezing.2C_and_other_Major_Issues">frequent crashes and freezes |
| with Eclipse</a> the most likely culprit is that you are using one of these versions of the Sun JVM. Users |
| are recommended to install a version 1.6.0.10 or later, 1.6.0.3 or before. Or use JVM 1.4.2 or 1.5 JVM. This issue |
| is specific to the Sun JVM and other vendors JVMs within these versions should be OK. |
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| <br><h2>Archives</h2> |
| <p> |
| Please see the <a href="./Archives.php">archived information</a> from previous weather forecasts. |
| </p> |
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