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| <h1 ALIGN="CENTER"><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial;"Times New Roman"'><b><span | |
| style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Eclipse Launches Open-Source Technology | |
| Project Supporting Research, Education and Engineering Initiatives</span></b></span></b></h1> | |
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| <LI>International Research Projects Gain Direct Support from IBM</LI> | |
| <LI>Focus on Numerous Web Technologies, Collaboration and Deployment Environments | |
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| <P><b>Ottawa, Ontario, August 20, 2002</b>--The Eclipse community has established | |
| the Eclipse Technology Project, an open-source project that supports research, | |
| education and engineering initiatives designed to integrate a wide variety | |
| of leading edge computing technologies with the Eclipse Platform. IBMs | |
| Eclipse Fellowship Program, which funds university based research in the | |
| areas of programming languages, tools, and environments, complements this | |
| effort. All Eclipse Fellowship projects use the Eclipse Platform as a | |
| foundation to conduct their research. | |
| <p>The Eclipse communitys royalty-free technology establishes a universal | |
| platform for tools integration. Eclipse based tools give developers freedom | |
| of choice in a multi-language, multi-platform, multi-vendor supported | |
| environment. Eclipse delivers a plug-in based framework that makes it | |
| easier to create, integrate and use software tools, saving time and money. | |
| This solid base helps projects explore new technologies more efficiently | |
| since it is no longer necessary to implement tools from scratch. </p> | |
| <p>The open-source Eclipse platform provides an advanced object-oriented | |
| framework allowing plug-in functions and extending facilities. This | |
| frees researchers to concentrate on areas of study and specialization. | |
| The open-source community will benefit from these efforts as new approaches | |
| to software engineering and project development are proven in the Eclipse | |
| tools environment.</p> | |
| <p>Funding provided by IBM will be used by research projects to purchase | |
| equipment and staff projects. Open-source assets donated by IBM and other | |
| Eclipse community members allow research to take place on a broad range | |
| of embedded, personal computer, workstation and server platforms. The | |
| Eclipse Platform and any assets donated by research projects back to Eclipse | |
| are provided under terms of the Common Public License, certified as | |
| open-source by the Open Software Foundation (<a href="http://www.osf.org/">http://www.osf.org</a>). | |
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| <p><b>Active Technology Project activities include:</b></p> | |
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| <li>Aspect Oriented Software Development a new technology permitting | |
| separation of concerns in software development. The techniques of AOSD | |
| make it possible to modularize cross-cutting aspects of a system. </li> | |
| <li>Stellation - a software configuration management system for building | |
| systems based on the integration of fine-grained software artifacts | |
| through advanced or experimental source code management techniques with | |
| the Eclipse development environment. </li> | |
| <li>XML Schema Infoset Model - work establishing a common API and Java | |
| library to be used in tools and development processes that model information, | |
| messages or interfaces using the W3C XML Schema Language. </li></ul> | |
| <b>Eclipse Fellowships have been awarded to research projects at:</b> | |
| <ul><li>Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, Oregon, USA </li> | |
| <li>University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark </li> | |
| <li>Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia </li> | |
| <li>Monash University, Australia </li> | |
| <li>Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada </li> | |
| <li>University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada</li> | |
| <li>University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA </li> | |
| <li>Ecoles des Mines de Nantes, Nantes, France </li> | |
| <li>Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA </li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p>Eclipse is expanding its focus to include forward looking research into | |
| areas important to software developers, said Skip McGaughey, chairperson | |
| of the Eclipse Board of Stewards. As a universal tools platform, Eclipse | |
| technology provides researchers with a rich and sophisticated open source | |
| infrastructure for conducting their investigations, allowing them to focus | |
| more of their time and effort on developing new technology. </p> | |
| <p>From Professor Dwight Deugo, associate professor, Carleton University, | |
| School of Computer Science, Ottawa, Canada, It is common for developers | |
| to think of a software development tool as an environment that enables | |
| them to write code, such as Java class files, and share it through a shared | |
| repository. While this is possible with the open-source Eclipse platform, | |
| the plug-in based framework will enable developers to expand on the notion | |
| of development tools. Eclipse is the platform for any and every software | |
| tool.</p> | |
| <p>For details of the activities of the Eclipse | |
| Technology Project, including active sub-projects, see <a | |
| href="http://www.eclipse.org/org/index.html">http://www.eclipse.org/org/index.html</a>. | |
| University departments, researchers and universities interested in Eclipse Fellowships | |
| should contact the Eclipse Technology Project Management Committee through the | |
| guidelines posted on the Eclipse website at: <a | |
| href="http://www.eclipse.org/technology/index.html">http://www.eclipse.org/technology/index.html</a> </p> | |
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| Eclipse is an open-source community that creates technology | |
| and a universal platform for tools integration. The open-source Eclipse | |
| community creates royalty-free technology as a platform for tools integration. | |
| Eclipse based tools give developers freedom of choice in a multi-language, multi-platform, | |
| multi-vendor supported environment. Eclipse delivers a plug-in based framework | |
| that makes it easier to create, integrate and use software tools, saving time | |
| and money. By collaborating and sharing core integration technology, tool producers | |
| can concentrate on their areas of expertise and the creation of new development | |
| technology. 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® and Windows® | |
| based systems. Full details of the Eclipse community and white papers documenting | |
| the design of the Eclipse Platform are available at <a | |
| href="http://www.eclipse.org/">http://www.eclipse.org</a>. </td> | |
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