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| <p><i>Community Members Announce New Innovations and Products</i></p> |
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| <p><strong>ECLIPSECON 2009, SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 24, 2009 – </strong> |
| EclipseCon 2009, the sixth annual Eclipse community conference, opens today at the Santa Clara Convention |
| Center in Santa Clara, Calif. The conference features the latest Eclipse developments and provides a |
| forum for attendees to discuss key business and technical issues facing the community. |
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| <p>Clay Shirky, Adjunct Professor for the Interactive Telecom Program at NYU, and Jeff Atwood, blogger |
| and CEO of stackoverflow.com, will deliver the opening keynote presentation. Wednesday's keynote will be |
| given by Peter Vosshall, Vice President and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon.com, and Don MacAskill, |
| Co-founder and CEO of SmugMug, and Thursday's keynote will be given by Tim Wagner, Principal Development |
| Manager for Microsoft Visual Studio Platform and Kevin McGuire, Eclipse UI Architect and Design & |
| Usability Lead at IBM. |
| </p> |
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| <p>EclipseCon 2009 features technical talks and tutorials on a variety of Eclipse projects and |
| technologies, including Equinox, Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), Rich Ajax Platform (RAP), Mylyn, |
| Device Developer Software Platform (DSDP), Eclipse Modeling project and many others. EclipseCon 2009 |
| also features the OSGi DevCon. |
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| <p>There are 36 organizations participating as conference sponsors this year, including Gold sponsors |
| BIRT Exchange, Blu Age, IBM, JBoss, Sopera, Sun Microsystems and Wind River. A number of Eclipse member |
| companies are also announcing a variety of exciting new initiatives at this yearÂ’s conference, including: |
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| <li><b>Actuate Corporation</b> (NASDAQ: ACTU), the leader in delivering Rich Internet Applications |
| Without Limit™ and founder and co-leader of the BIRT project with the Eclipse Foundation, |
| announced the creation of the Actuate BIRT Global Partner Connection. The new program will unite |
| organizations globally using BIRT, the leading open source information application development |
| environment, and will bring together a community of technology providers offering high-valued |
| products, solutions and services around BIRT.<br> |
| <a href="http://www.actuate.com/company/news/press-releases-resources.asp?ArticleId=14338" target="blank">http://www.actuate.com/company/news/press-releases-resources.asp?ArticleId=14338</a> |
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| <li><b>Anyware Technologies</b> announces Eclipse Time, a conference which presents many Eclipse |
| topics (technical, strategic) during sessions delivered by the Eclipse Foundation, Eclipse experts |
| and industry speakers. Attendees are technical developers and managers from many fields of activity: |
| embedded, aeronautics, space, research and communications. Gathering more than one hundred people, |
| the event focuses on how Eclipse can be an answer to industry topics.<br> |
| <a href="http://www.anyware-tech.com/en/news/events.html" target="blank">http://www.anyware-tech.com/en/news/events.html</a> |
| </li> |
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| <li><b>ARS Computer und Consulting GmbH</b>, an IBM Premier Business Partner since 1994, announced |
| it has joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Solutions Member at EclipseCon. The medium-sized software |
| development, integration and training specialist underpins its commitment to Open Source, especially |
| Eclipse-based development environments, Rich Clients and Runtime platforms. By joining the Eclipse |
| Foundation, ARS intends to shift from a consumer role to actively supporting and contributing to the |
| Eclipse community.<br> |
| <a href="http://www.ars.de/web/firma/ars_ist_neues_mitglied_der_eclipse_foundation.do" target="blank">http://www.ars.de/web/firma/ars_ist_neues_mitglied_der_eclipse_foundation.do</a> |
| </li> |
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| <li><b>AvantSoft</b> provides excellent training and development services for Eclipse Plugins, RCP, |
| GEF, EMF, Flex, and J2EE. AvantSoft's Eclipse University offers customized corporate training and |
| public virtual classes. All EclipseCon2009 presentations are published using innovative Flex-based |
| platform gpublication.com. AvantSoft’s MyEventPortal solution enables custom portals with content, |
| networking, and community support.<br> |
| <a href="http://www.eclipseuniversity.org/pressrelease.htm" target="blank">http://www.eclipseuniversity.org/pressrelease.htm</a> |
| </li> |
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| <li><b>Band XI International, LLC</b> is successfully commercializing the results of their US Army |
| Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants to build the Mobile Embedded Component Suite |
| (MECS), an embedded Java™ foundation using Eclipse Equinox as a runtime. Band XI is applying |
| the core component frameworks to address prognostics and diagnostics in condition-based maintenance |
| of vehicle fleets. The same software provides the basis for various military and industrial |
| applications.<br> |
| <a href="http://www.bandxi.com/sbir/ec2009pr.html" target="blank">http://www.bandxi.com/sbir/ec2009pr.html</a> |
| </li> |
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| <li><b>BLU AGE Corp.</b>, leader in agile model transformation, announces the launch of their Legacy |
| Model-Driven modernization solution: “BLU AGE Reverse Modeling” and “BLU AGE Modernization”. This |
| groundbreaking solution enables complete reverse modeling and re-engineering of the most critical |
| Enterprise applications.<br> |
| <a href="http://www.bluage.com/index.php?cID=news" target="blank">http://www.bluage.com/index.php?cID=news</a> |
| </li> |
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| <li><b>Bredex</b> At EclipseCon, Bredex will be represented by Achim Lörke, presenting an |
| approach to using models to ease the start-up of GUI testing, and Alexandra Imrie, talking about |
| usability in Eclipse applications. In the exhibition hall (stand 204), Achim and Alex will |
| demonstrate the upcoming version 3.0 of GUIdancer, which is a finalist in the Eclipse Awards in the |
| “Best Commercial Developer Tool” category.<br> |
| <a href="http://www.bredex.de/en/news/pdf/BredexAtEclipseCon_en.pdf" target="blank">http://www.bredex.de/en/news/pdf/BredexAtEclipseCon_en.pdf</a> |
| </li> |
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| <li><b>EclipseSource</b>, the leading provider of Eclipse runtime products and services, announced |
| Yoxos SecureSource, a subscription-based service that provides secure access to a repository of |
| certified open source plug-ins. The new service provides development teams with secured, reliable |
| access to an uncompromised and consistent code base and is designed to alleviate concerns about |
| source code authenticity and origin.<br> |
| <a href="http://eclipsesource.com/en/about/press-releases/en/eclipsesource-introduces-security-for-open-source-downloads/" target="blank">http://eclipsesource.com/en/about/press-releases/en/eclipsesource-introduces-security-for-open-source-downloads/</a> |
| </li> |
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| <li><b>Eteration, a.s.</b>, an Eclipse expert and long time committer to the Eclipse Foundation |
| announces open education and courseware for web application development. This initiative is a part |
| of the Web Tools platform project. Eteration is a provider of services and education for |
| Enterprise Customers in Europe and Asia.<br> |
| </li> |
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| <li><b>froglogic GmbH</b> is showing a preview of Squish 4.0 at EclipseCon 2009. Squish is a |
| professional, cross-platform GUI and regression testing tool that enables testers to create and |
| execute automated GUI tests for applications based on a variety of different GUI technologies. |
| Squish stands out from other GUI test tools thanks to its close integration with each supported |
| GUI technology.<br> |
| <a href="http://www.froglogic.com/pg?id=NewsEvents&category=108" target="blank">http://www.froglogic.com/pg?id=NewsEvents&category=108</a> |
| </li> |
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| <li><b>Genuitec</b> released MyEclipse 7.1 Blue Edition, software that allows companies to unleash |
| their WebSphere investment with WSAD/RAD project support and WebSphere 7 compatibility. Also, nWire |
| Software gives Genuitec’s Pulse users a boost with innovative code exploration. And, Quest Software |
| has joined Genuitec's Pulse Network with popular Java profiler JProbe®.<br> |
| </li> |
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| <li><b>Instantiations</b>, a leading provider of Eclipse-based software quality, security, GUI building |
| and testing solutions released version 7.0 of WindowBuilder Pro Java GUI builder for Swing, SWT and GWT. |
| WindowBuilder Pro, which was nominated for a 2009 Eclipse Award, adds many features to v7.0 including UI |
| Factories, Eclipse Nebula widgets integration, improved parsing, new customization API for third party |
| extensibility, Swing Data Binding and full support for GWT-Ext widget set.<br> |
| <a href="http://www.instantiations.com/press/release/090324.html" target="blank">http://www.instantiations.com/press/release/090324.html</a> |
| </li> |
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| <li><b>itemis</b>, strategic member of the Eclipse Foundation, presents the new development of |
| TMF-Xtext, which will be released in the next version of Eclipse in June 2009, and the new project |
| EMF-Index. Both of the projects will be presented in sessions at EclipseCon on Tuesday, March 24: |
| “Next generation textual DSLs with Xtext” and “Managing Big Ecore Models with EMF Index”.<br> |
| <a href="http://www.itemis.com/itemis-ag/news/2009/language=en/taps=590/20365/eclipsecon-2009" target="blank">http://www.itemis.com/itemis-ag/news/2009/language=en/taps=590/20365/eclipsecon-2009</a> |
| </li> |
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| <li><b>MicroDoc</b> is planning to release “Java Bindings for openVG” under EPL in Q2 of 2009. |
| OpenVG™ is a cross-platform API that provides a low-level hardware acceleration interface |
| for vector graphics libraries. The Java™ bindings will make hardware accelerated 2D vector |
| graphics available for users of eRCP applications on mobile and embedded devices. MicroDoc is also |
| organizing <a href="http://www.microdoc.com/node/312" target="blank">Eclipse Embedded Day</a> in |
| Stuttgart, Germany on June 25, 2009.<br> |
| <a href="http://www.microdoc.com/openvg" target="blank">http://www.microdoc.com/openvg</a> |
| </li> |
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| <li><b>Oracle</b> announced Oracle® Enterprise Pack for Eclipse Release 11g, a free component of |
| Oracle Fusion Middleware designed to help developers leverage their expertise in Eclipse with the |
| comprehensive capabilities of Oracle Fusion Middleware. Key enhancements in this release include |
| Object-Relational Mapping (ORM), Spring and Web Service tools to help reduce development complexity |
| for Java and database developers targeting Oracle platforms.<br> |
| <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/018059_EN" target="blank">http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/018059_EN</a> |
| </li> |
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| <li><b>Perforce Software</b>, an Eclipse member company, announced the latest release of its |
| Perforce Plug-in for Eclipse which integrates Eclipse with Perforce, The Fast Sofware Configuration |
| Management System. This version introduces the Synchronize view, enhanced Resolve dialog and a new |
| Integrate dialog, along with numerous performance enhancements.<br> |
| <a href="http://www.perforce.com/perforce/press/pr106_8.2EclipsePlugin.pdf" target="blank">http://www.perforce.com/perforce/press/pr106_8.2EclipsePlugin.pdf</a> |
| </li> |
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| <li><b>ProSyst</b>, <a href="http://www.prosyst.com" target="blank">www.prosyst.com</a>, an OSGi |
| pioneer and Active Contributor to Equinox with 2 Equinox committers has joined the Eclipse Training |
| Alliance, as a premium member. ProSyst offers various Embedded and Enterprise OSGi training courses |
| as well as Eclipse eRCP. ProSyst would also be pleased to offer an onsite training - customized for |
| your company.<br> |
| <a href="http://www.prosyst.com/news/news/2009/eta.html" target="blank">http://www.prosyst.com/news/news/2009/eta.html</a> |
| </li> |
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| <li><b>Protecode</b> announced Release 2.0 of its software governance products which make the |
| managing of licensing obligations of Open Source and other 3rd-party software much easier: the |
| Enterprise IP Analyzer TM for bulk analysis of existing code, and the Eclipse plug-in Developer |
| IP Assistant TM, industry’s first real-time preventive IP management solution.<br> |
| <a href="http://www.protecode.com/press-releases/2009/032309-protecode-release2-IP-management-products.php" target="blank">http://www.protecode.com/press-releases/2009/032309-protecode-release2-IP-management-products.php</a> |
| </li> |
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| <li><b>SOPERA</b> is offering a mature open source platform for SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). |
| With the new and immediately available Release 3.2, the functional scope of the suite has again been |
| expanded significantly: It now also includes integration components for Talend Open Studio, the |
| leading Open Source software for data integration, and Hyperic HQ, the multiple prize-winning Open |
| Source solution for system management and monitoring.<br> |
| <a href="http://www.sopera.de/en/press/press-release/19032009/" target="blank">http://www.sopera.de/en/press/press-release/19032009/</a> |
| </li> |
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| <li><b>Soyatec</b> proudly announces a massive source contribution to the e4 project on Declarative |
| UI: XWT and the availability of a Technical Preview Release of eclipse4sl (proposed as eclipse SLDT) |
| on Mac OS X. Soyatec continues to show a strong commitment to lead and develop several Eclipse |
| projects such as XWT, PMF, EGF and SLDT and to promote Eclipse in the China market.<br> |
| <a href="http://www.soyatec.com/company/e4-xwt.php" target="blank">http://www.soyatec.com/company/e4-xwt.php</a> |
| </li> |
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| <li><b>SpringSource</b> has released SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) 2.0, the most comprehensive |
| environment for building Spring-powered Java applications. STS 2.0 is an Eclipse-based platform that |
| adds such features as wizards for creating projects, forms-based configuration editing, and more. |
| Also included in STS 2.0 are tools which help developers deploy modular OSGi applications.<br> |
| <a href="http://www.springsource.com/node/1384" target="blank">http://www.springsource.com/node/1384</a> |
| </li> |
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| <li><b>Weigle Wilczek</b> announces that it is expanding to the United Kingdom with Neil Bartlett, an |
| internationally recognised OSGi expert and author of the upcoming book “OSGi in Practice”, as a founding |
| partner of the upcoming London office. As well, itemis, ProSyst and SOPERA have joined the Eclipse |
| Training Alliance. As an international expert network, the Eclipse Training Alliance pools the extensive |
| Eclipse knowledge of its associate companies.<br> |
| <a href="http://www.weiglewilczek.com/blog/?p=637" target="blank">http://www.weiglewilczek.com/blog/?p=637</a> |
| <a href="http://www.weiglewilczek.com/blog/?p=634" target="blank">http://www.weiglewilczek.com/blog/?p=634</a> |
| </li> |
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| </ul> |
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| <strong>About the Eclipse Foundation</strong><br /> |
| Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development |
| platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing |
| software across the lifecycle. A large, vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative |
| start-ups, universities and research institutions and individuals extend, complement and support the |
| Eclipse Platform. |
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| 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">www.eclipse.org</a>. |
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