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| <p><strong>EclipseCon 2008, SANTA CLARA, CA – March 17, 2008 – </strong> |
| The Eclipse Foundation today announced a new initiative to develop and promote open source runtime technology based on Equinox, a |
| lightweight OSGi compliant runtime. While Eclipse is well known for its widely used development tools, this initiative |
| establishes a community of Eclipse open source projects focused on runtime technology that provides a more flexible approach to |
| building and deploying software on mobile, desktop and server environments.</p> |
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| <p>The move to create a community around Equinox is a logical progression for Eclipse. Equinox, the core runtime platform for |
| Eclipse, has been deployed on millions of software developers’ desktops, has enabled an ecosystem of thousands of Eclipse |
| plug-ins and is the base of hundreds of Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) based applications. Recently, the community has also |
| used Equinox as the server platform for Ajax applications, SOA, enterprise client/server applications and others. Therefore, |
| this new initiative has been started to foster and promote Equinox as a platform for building and deploying general purpose |
| software products and applications.</p> |
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| <p>To support the launch of the Equinox community, the Eclipse Foundation is announcing the following: |
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| <li>The Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors has approved and created a new top-level project called the Eclipse Runtime |
| project (Eclipse RT). The mission of this new top-level project is to foster, promote and house runtime efforts in the |
| Eclipse community. The Project Management Committee (PMC) will be led by Jochen Krause (Innoopract) and Jeff McAffer |
| (Code 9), and will include Douglas Clarke (Oracle), Ricco Deutscher (SOPERA) and Thomas Watson (IBM). Eclipse RT will |
| initially include the following sub-projects: <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/">Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF)</a>, <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/">EclipseLink</a>, |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/">Equinox</a>, <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/rap/">Rich Ajax Platform (RAP)</a>, <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/riena/">Riena</a>, and <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/swordfish/">Swordfish</a>.</li> |
| <li>A new <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/equinox-portal/">Equinox community portal</a> has been launched on the Eclipse web site. The portal is focused on promoting and |
| educating developers on Equinox, OSGi and related Eclipse runtime projects. Developers are able to download tutorials, |
| videocasts and webinars to educate them on the new approach for building software.</li> |
| <li>More than 20 companies have indicated their support and participation in the Equinox community.</li> |
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| <p>Equinox introduces a new way of building and deploying software; a concept called Component Oriented Development and |
| Assembly (CODA). Component oriented development is not new, but Equinox and CODA provide some very important advantages: |
| <ul> |
| <li>Equinox is based on the OSGi standard, a consistent component model that spans platforms and architectural tiers. |
| OSGi is used for mobile and embedded devices, desktop applications and server applications hosted on a wide variety of |
| operating systems (Linux, Windows, Solaris, etc). Other component models tend to be operating system specific or tied to |
| a specific deployment tier.</li> |
| <li>Developers using Equinox have much more flexibility in assembling and customizing their application and runtime |
| platform. Instead of a"one size fits all" approach, developers can now select components from a variety of component |
| producers, customize the components for their specific needs and assemble the required components to create individual |
| solutions.</li> |
| <li>Similar to how Eclipse solved the developer tools integration challenge, Equinox provides a standard integration |
| mechanism that allows organizations to easily integrate applications with their partner and customers solutions.</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <p>"Launching the Equinox community to focus on runtimes is a natural evolution of Eclipse," said Mike Milinkovich, Executive |
| Director of the Eclipse Foundation. "Our community has already developed runtime projects like RCP, RAP, Swordfish, EclipseLink |
| and ECF. This new community will help organize and foster additional projects that focus on making it easier to develop and |
| deploy software."</p> |
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| <p>More details about the Equinox community can be found at <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/equinox-portal" target="blank"> |
| eclipse.org/equinox-portal</a>, including a white paper describing the concepts of CODA.</p> |
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| <p><b>About the Eclipse Foundation</b><br> |
| Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application |
| frameworks for building software. Eclipse provides extensible tools and frameworks that span the software development |
| lifecycle, including support for modeling, language development environments for Java, C/C++ and others, testing and |
| performance, business intelligence, rich client applications and embedded development. A large, vibrant ecosystem of major |
| technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities and research institutions and individuals extend, complement and support |
| the Eclipse Platform.</p> |
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| <p>The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects. Full details of |
| Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation are available at <a href="http://www.eclipse.org" target="blank">www.eclipse.org</a>.</p> |
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| <p><b>Press Contact</b><br> |
| Steve Eisenstadt<br> |
| Page One Public Relations<br> |
| 919-781-8096<br> |
| <a href="mailto:steve@pageonepr.com">steve@pageonepr.com</a><br> |
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| <li><a href="/equinox-portal/quotes.php">Who is using Equinox?</a></li> |
| <li><a href="/equinox-portal/whitepaper/20080310_equinox.php">Whitepaper</a></li> |
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