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<h1 ALIGN="CENTER"><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial;"Times New Roman"'><b> | |
Eclipse 3.0 Delivers Universal Platform for <br> | |
Application Construction </b></span></b></h1> | |
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<li>Expands Support for Award Winning Java Tools Integration</li> | |
<li>New User Interface Integration Helps Tool Providers Migrate Swing-Based | |
Offerings to Eclipse</li> | |
<li>CDT and Hyades Projects Enhance Capabilities </li> | |
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<P>OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA - June 21, 2004 - Today the Eclipse Foundation | |
announced general availability of the royalty-free 3.0 release of the | |
Eclipse Platform, adding enhancements that improve flexibility, scalability, | |
interoperability and responsiveness. Eclipse is an award-winning universal | |
platform for tools integration, software modeling and testing that has | |
been broadly adopted by commercial vendors, academic institutions and | |
open technology developers. With release 3.0, Eclipse now extends its | |
sophisticated object-oriented development technologies to support a rich-client | |
platform (RCP) that enables construction of desktop applications.</p> | |
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"Eclipse has come a long way in its short history. It has done well | |
to attract a steady, but rapidly growing following from many organizations | |
who want a quality backed development platform that has broad and unifying | |
support within the software industry," said Bola Rotibi, senior analyst | |
of Software Development at Ovum. "These timely new enhancements demonstrate | |
the commitment the organization has to providing an effective, scalable | |
and open-sourced development environment-not only for Java J2EE, but also | |
encompassing other language environments, notably C/C++. Clearly, any | |
enhancements to the power and flexibility of the environment will be a | |
bonus to those committed, to or looking to commit, to Eclipse." </p> | |
<P>Eclipse 3.0 is the cumulative result of 15 months of project investment | |
by supporting members and the Eclipse community, continuing the commitment | |
to implement open technology built upon established industry standards. | |
Enhancements such as the following have been made to core facilities to | |
help make Eclipse use more convenient, consistent and responsive: <br> | |
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<li>Enhanced the end user's 'out-of-the-box' experience </li> | |
<li>Streamlined installation for functionally powerful features with reduced | |
complexity </li> | |
<li>Improved customization of menus and toolbars </li> | |
<li>Added new role and experience-based approaches for managing workbench | |
features and facilities </li> | |
<li>Restructured the workbench to allow running underlying program facilities | |
in the background in a multi-threaded environment. </li> | |
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<P>"Eclipse 3.0 brings new features which will delight plug-in and application | |
developers that rely on this advanced platform," said Mike Milinkovich, | |
executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. "Thanks to community support | |
only possible in an open environment, Eclipse 3.0 quality benefits from | |
the skill and continuous evaluation of a large number of industry professionals | |
worldwide." <br> | |
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<P>Concurrent with this new release, the C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) project | |
and the Hyades application verification and optimization project are shipping | |
new versions. <br> | |
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<P>Eclipse was originally conceived as a universal platform for tools integration. | |
Experience and feedback from users made it clear that Eclipse was also | |
ideally suited for the construction of functionally-rich desktop applications. | |
Features and facets that have been used as the core of Eclipse's sophisticated | |
object-oriented development technologies have been restructured and repackaged | |
in 3.0, making Eclipse an open, extensible platform for application construction | |
and integration. This includes Eclipse's window-based workbench GUI, the | |
dynamic plug-in functional extension mechanism, help subsystem and update | |
manager. </p> | |
<P>When Java applications are constructed with Eclipse's Standard Widget | |
Toolkit (SWT) and deployed to different operating platforms, they adopt | |
native window manager look and feel. On Linux Motif or the GTK, Microsoft | |
Windows, Mac OS X, Photon, AIX, HP/UX platforms, and other supported platforms, | |
Eclipse users can develop applications in Java with the true look-and-feel | |
of the platform. </p> | |
<P>When used on the Linux and Windows platforms, Eclipse 3.0 adds the ability | |
to embed Swing widgets in SWT-based user interfaces. This allows integration | |
of Swing-based applications and tools within the Eclipse workbench and | |
other functionally-rich applications. New features allow Eclipse plug-in | |
providers to customize user interfaces and establish a branded appearance | |
for products and applications. </p> | |
<P>The Java Development Tools (JDT) project has improved the user experiences | |
of reading, writing and navigating source code, adding improved refactoring, | |
code formatting and editor features such as code folding. JDT has been | |
generalized to enable tools that support Java-related languages like SQLj | |
and JSPs. This includes implementation of the Java Community Process JSR45 | |
standard for debugging. JDT also now embraces non-language files like | |
manifests and J2EE deployment descriptors that reference Java language | |
elements. </p> | |
<P>Eclipse was adapted to add support for the OSGi (<a href="http://www.osgi.org" target="_blank">www.osgi.org</a>) | |
framework specification when constructing functionally extensible applications. | |
This open standard for plug-in extensions supports installation and dynamic | |
activation under program control, permitting fine-grain conservation of | |
resources like memory in complex integrated tools and client environments. | |
In addition, the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment now supports | |
component integration for platforms that incorporate very large numbers | |
of plug-ins. <br> | |
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<p><b>CDT and Hyades Project Updates </b></p> | |
<p>Other Eclipse-hosted open projects have coordinated their distributions | |
with the 3.0 launch. These include extensions to the C/C++ Development | |
Tools and the Hyades Project's implementation of the recently approved | |
OMG U2TP Test Profile standard. </p> | |
<p>The C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) offer numerous enhancements to provide | |
a faster, more productive user experience. To simplify code editing and | |
navigation, the tools now include improved string searches, configurable | |
code completion, a C/C++ class browser and a refactoring facility for | |
automating code changes across an entire project. To speed application | |
debugging, the debugger now presents both source code and assembly in | |
the same view. To free developers from writing and maintaining makefiles, | |
the CDT environment now includes a "managed build" feature. </p> | |
<p>In addition, the CDT leverages the new multi-threading support in Eclipse | |
3.0. As a result, operations such as indexing and building can now run | |
in the background, allowing the developer to continue working on other | |
tasks. </p> | |
<p>Other new features include improved interfacing with modeling tools, | |
support for national languages through I18N-style internationalization | |
and new API documentation that makes it easier for tool providers to incorporate | |
CDT technology into their offerings. </p> | |
<p>Hyades 3.0 provides an integration framework and extensible core tools | |
for application verification and optimization. Technology in the framework | |
includes testing, tracing, profiling, logging and monitoring application | |
systems. This project extends Eclipse to span the entire project lifecycle | |
from development and deployment through production and monitoring. Hyades | |
includes an Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF)-based implementation of data | |
models for trace, log, statistical data, test execution history and tests | |
as well as sample test execution engines for JUnit, HTTP URL and manual | |
testing environments; statistical performance data collection agents for | |
Microsoft environments; Apache log collection agents; Java trace agents | |
and Java probe insertion kits. An integrated extensible framework of generic | |
interoperable data model editors and viewers is also provided.</p> | |
<p> <b>Availability </b></p> | |
<p>Distributions of Eclipse 3.0 will be available by June 30 for download | |
from <a href="http://www.eclipse.org" target="_blank">http://www.eclipse.org</a>. | |
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<P> The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit member-supported corporation | |
that hosts community based open projects. Eclipse creates royalty-free | |
technology and a universal platform for development tools integration, | |
modeling, testing and functionally-rich application construction. | |
Eclipse based offerings give developers freedom of choice in a multi-language, | |
multi-platform, multi-vendor supported environment. Eclipse delivers | |
a dynamic plug-in based framework that makes it easier to create | |
and integrate technology, saving time and money. By collaborating | |
and sharing core integration technology, technology providers can | |
concentrate and focus on areas of expertise and differentiation. | |
The Eclipse Platform is written in the Java language and comes with | |
extensive plug-in construction toolkits and examples. It has already | |
been deployed on a range of development workstations including Linux, | |
QNX, Mac OS X and Windows-based systems. Full details of the Eclipse | |
Foundation and white papers documenting the design of the Eclipse | |
Platform are available at www.eclipse.org.<a href="http://www.eclipse.org" target="_blank">http://www.eclipse.org</a>.<br> | |
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<p>IBM - Lee Nackman, vice president, Desktop Development Tools and CTO | |
Rational Software, IBM Software Group <br> | |
"We are very excited about the many benefits that Eclipse 3.0 will bring | |
to our customers and are proud of the leading role IBM developers have | |
had in bringing it to the industry. IBM is now working towards a release | |
of Eclipse 3.0-based products of our market-leading Rational tools and | |
Lotus collaboration solutions." </p> | |
<p>Intel - Jonathan Khazam, General Manager of Intel Software Development | |
Products <br> | |
"Eclipse 3.0 brings significant new features and functionality to the | |
Eclipse ecosystem. Intel is actively developing versions of Intel Compilers | |
and VTune Performance Analyzers with Eclipse integration for Linux. Intel | |
is also taking an active role in Eclipse projects such as Hyades and looks | |
forward to continued involvement with the Eclipse community." </p> | |
<p>Exadel - Fima Katz, president and CEO <br> | |
"Exadel is excited about the new 3.0 Eclipse Platform for delivering its | |
own Professional Tools for Open Source. The improved built-in Java IDE | |
and user interface deliver enhanced value to our customers while the greatly | |
improved Eclipse plug-in development environment makes it much easier | |
for us to serve our customers better by expediting the process of improving | |
our existing tools and creating new ones." </p> | |
<p>Genuitec - Maher Masri, president <br> | |
"Eclipse provides a phenomenal platform for building world-class development | |
tools and lowers the barriers for companies and individuals to enter new | |
markets and offer competitive products. Eclipse 3.0 extends the platform | |
for developing rich-client applications and reclaims Java as an effective | |
solution for the desktop." </p> | |
<p>Instantiations Inc. - Michael Taylor, CEO <br> | |
"The new Eclipse 3.0 release is a major step forward for the industry. | |
As an enterprise software tools provider and Eclipse foundation member, | |
Instantiations is fully supporting Eclipse 3.0. Our strategic products, | |
CodePro Studio and WindowBuilder Pro, are ready to run on Eclipse 3.0 | |
today. Our customers will be assured that they will have the most robust | |
and productive tool-sets to use in creating enterprise-scale Java applications | |
and rich-client user interfaces." </p> | |
<p>INNOOPRACT - Jochen Krause, president <br> | |
"Eclipse 3.0 has been eagerly awaited by INNOOPRACT and our customers. | |
The additional improvements such as the new welcome, the help system, | |
the refactoring API as well as dozens more improvements serve to cement | |
Eclipse as the leading development platform. Our W4T Eclipse plug-in will | |
leverage these benefits to enhance the web development capabilities for | |
Eclipse users." </p> | |
<p>Kinzan - Garland Wong, president <br> | |
"We believe that this new release further solidifies Eclipse's reputation | |
as the most powerful and extensible IDE for Java development and we will | |
be updating Kinzan Studio, our plug-in for rapidly assembling flexible | |
web applications, to take full advantage of its new capabilities." </p> | |
<p>Novell - Chris Cooper, Director of Developer Services <br> | |
"Eclipse is central to Novell's Developer Tools strategy. With version | |
3.0 developers enjoy the same robust features for native C/C++ on Linux | |
that they've enjoyed for Java development. Novell will ship Eclipse 3.0 | |
with SUSE LINUX server and desktop offerings. Eclipse continues to be | |
a key component to Novell's strategy to grow the Linux developer community | |
and bring mainstream developers to the platform. Novell is also leveraging | |
the Eclipse Platform to deliver next-generation developer tools for our | |
identity management, portal and web application development offerings." | |
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<p>Scapa Technologies - Michael Norman, CEO <br> | |
"Scapa Technologies has made a substantial contribution to the Eclipse | |
3.0 code base, in particular in the test, performance analysis and monitoring | |
tools area, through its development of the Hyades StatCon (statistical | |
console) module and Perfmon agent. We see these as major features in Eclipse | |
3.0 and also as integration points that we will leverage to add significant | |
value to future releases of our performance analysis solutions."</p> | |
<p> Serena Software - Boris Kapitanski, Vice President of Strategic Technology | |
<br> | |
"As a founding member of Eclipse, Serena Software is enthusiastic | |
about the latest release of Eclipse 3.0. With Serena's integrated Enterprise | |
Change Management suite and the flexibility, scalability and responsiveness | |
improvements in Eclipse 3.0, we will be able to offer a solution to manage | |
and control application development that is more reliable and efficient | |
in delivering quality applications." </p> | |
<p>SlickEdit - Bob Bradley, vice president of Sales and Business Development | |
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"SlickEdit remains dedicated to supporting Eclipse and is very excited | |
about the advancements Eclipse 3.0 will provide to the developer community. | |
The Visual SlickEdit plug-in for Eclipse 3.0 will be generally available | |
for sale in late July and will continue to be a best-in-class editor plug-in | |
by incorporating many new advanced editing features, enabling Eclipse | |
developers to write more code faster and more accurately." </p> | |
<p>Tensilica - Chris Songer, director of platform engineering<br> | |
"CDT quality and features have been on a tremendous growth curve. The | |
3.0 release is going to be outstanding and we are already committed to | |
basing a future version of Xtensa Xplorer on it." <br> | |
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