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<name>Christian Dupuis</name> | |
<title>Director, R&D, VMware</title> | |
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<email>cdupuis@vmware.com</email> | |
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<p>Over the past several years I've been an active user of Eclipse technologies and | |
used the Eclipse platform to build open source and commercial solutions like Spring IDE or the Spring | |
Tool Suite. During my work on open source technologies, I have come to recognize the unique | |
value that the Eclipse Foundation brings to the intersection of open source and corporate software development. | |
In conjunction with a large, active and vocal community, the Eclipse Foundation had helped to define the primacy | |
of the developer as an agent of change in the world of enterprise software. | |
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<p>Within recent times we've seen the rise of the Cloud, an ever increasing number of mobile devices accessing | |
the internet and an insane amount of data being captured each day. Without question these developments affect | |
the ways developers are building the next generation of applications; a completely new set of application | |
styles, frameworks and tools is emerging to support these new demands. | |
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<p>This poses a challenge for Eclipse and its ecosystem; there are certain areas in which the Eclipse | |
ecosystem could put additional focus to maintain its momentum and market leading position. In case | |
the Eclipse community elects me to the Board of Directors, I would like to help making this a reality. | |
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<p>My vision for Eclipse in 2013: | |
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<li>Web + Mobile: we are seeing the growing importance of HTML5 and JavaScript | |
in modern web and mobile application development. There is a tremendous opportunity | |
in this space with a wide and growing addressable market, both in terms of developers | |
and commercial vendors that will potentially build on top of Eclipse technologies. Vert.x | |
and its potential move to the Eclipse Foundation is a good example of what role the Eclipse | |
Foundation could play in this space; even beyond the traditional tooling. As a board member, | |
I will help ensure that Eclipse gets the necessary resources to extend the Eclipse stack | |
and become a viable option for web and mobile application development. | |
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<li>Cloud: many people may see Cloud as a buzzword. But while working at VMware I have | |
come to see that the Cloud is a reality through the community interest in the open source | |
Cloud Foundry platform. While I was working on the Eclipse integration for Cloud Foundry it | |
became clear that there is a lot that Eclipse could offer as part of the platform to support | |
Cloud platforms and vendors. | |
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<li>Eclipse, through the WTP project, managed to build a platform for traditional | |
application server vendors to extend for their server runtimes. This has led to a | |
flourishing ecosystem of providers for nearly every application server in the market. | |
I think a similar effort is required to provide extension mechanisms for cloud providers | |
to plug in their PaaS and IaaS offerings. This goes beyond simple deploy-start-stop scenarios | |
and will include, for example, provisioning and configuring platform services in a Cloud environment. | |
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<li>More and more components of the development lifecycle are moving into the Cloud. I think | |
it is only natural for cloud providers to host editing or IDE solutions in close proximity | |
to the application code. There is a unique opportunity to work with the various cloud providers to | |
position Orion as the editing solution of choice in those environments. | |
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<p>Christian Dupuis is Director, R&D for the SpringSource division of VMware with | |
responsibilities for the Spring project offerings, including the Spring Framework. | |
From the very early days of Spring, Christian worked with the Spring team around Rod Johnson | |
and others in the open source space. In 2004 Christian co-founded the well known Spring IDE | |
open source project that brings development tools for the Spring projects to the Eclipse platform. | |
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<p>More recently Christian was responsible for the implementation of the Cloud Foundry Integration for | |
Eclipse which gives developers easy access to VMware's multi-language, multi-framework PaaS. He is | |
also actively involved in moving the SpringSource dm Server Tools into Eclipse Virgo project. | |
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<p>Christian has been developing Java enterprise applications since 1997. During this time, Christian | |
designed complex software architectures with a focus on multi-tiered, web-based, client-server | |
applications using enterprise Java technologies and the Spring Framework. Prior to joining SpringSource, | |
Christian worked as consultant and project manager for one of the leading global technology consulting | |
firms in the financial sector in central Europe. | |
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<p>Christian served on the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors starting February 2013. | |
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SpringSource, a division of VMware, Inc. | |
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