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| <h1 ALIGN="CENTER"><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial;"Times New Roman"'>Eclipse | |
| Announces Open Source Visual Tools Project</span></b></h1> | |
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| <LI>Graphical Editor Framework Enables Visual Tools Development</LI> | |
| <LI>Consortium Welcomes Fujitsu, Serena Software and Sybase to the Eclipse Board of Stewards </LI> | |
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| <P>LONDON--May 15, 2002--The Eclipse Tools project management committee | |
| has announced formation of the <u> | |
| <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/gef-home/main.html?cvsroot=Tools_Project"> | |
| Graphical Editor Framework (GEF) Project</a></u><b>,</b> that will develop a framework | |
| for rapidly creating and customizing visual development tools. Visual | |
| tools are a key component of todays integrated development environments, | |
| allowing developers to depict design objects and their interconnected | |
| relationships. These features make it easier to turn concepts into running | |
| systems that are easier to support through the deployment life of projects. | |
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| The Eclipse community also welcomes Fujitsu, Serena Software and Sybase | |
| as they join with Borland, IBM<b>, </b>MERANT, QNX Software Systems, Rational | |
| Software, Red Hat, SuSE, TogetherSoft and WebGain as supporting members. | |
| Representatives of these companies, each of which plans to release Eclipse | |
| Platform compatible product offerings, expand the Eclipse Board of Stewards | |
| to 12 members. </P> | |
| <P>Eclipse is the open source environment for creating, integrating | |
| and deploying application development tools for use across a broad range | |
| of computing technologies . With todays announcement, the leadership | |
| of the Eclipse community expands to include industry leaders that create | |
| tools, middleware, database, web services, and content management technology | |
| for use across all computing deployment environments from wristwatches | |
| through mainframes.</P> | |
| <p>The | |
| committed involvement of this broad range of member companies creates a unique | |
| opportunity for projects like GEF that blends the best of open source community | |
| principles and robust technology, said Skip McGaughey, chairperson of the Eclipse | |
| Board of Stewards. This establishes an opportunity for research into improving | |
| the software development process and ensuring that tools users have a genuine | |
| choice in products and offerings.</p> | |
| <p>With | |
| its widely accepted Common Public License that is certified by the Open Software | |
| Foundation, Eclipse is proving a popular choice for development of new tools | |
| and the integration of best of breed technology. Eclipse establishes a level | |
| playing field for integrating work from the community of open source developers | |
| and a variety of vendors. The CPL allows creation of derivative works from | |
| Eclipse with worldwide re-distribution rights that are royalty free.</p> | |
| <p>Eclipse | |
| manages two open source projects: the Eclipse Project that addresses core platform | |
| development and the Eclipse Tools Project that focuses on tools built to run | |
| on the Eclipse Platform. Earlier this year, the C/C++ IDE sub-project launched | |
| with a set of plug-in tools for C and C++ language based development targeting | |
| Linux®. With todays announcement, the Eclipse Graphical Editor Framework | |
| sub-project has been proposed, supporting the creation of visual graphics based | |
| plug-ins. Interested developers and tools providers can participate by contacting | |
| Eclipse at <a | |
| href="mailto:tools-dev@eclipse.org">tools-dev@eclipse.org</a>. </p> | |
| <p>Work on the Eclipse | |
| Project is now rapidly moving toward release of the version 2.0 Eclipse Platform. | |
| Full details of the Eclipse.org community and the design of the Eclipse Platform | |
| are available at <a | |
| href="http://www.eclipse.org/">http://www.eclipse.org</a>. </p> | |
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| <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#0080C0"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial,Helvetica">About Eclipse.org </font></b></td> | |
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| Eclipse is a consortium of software | |
| tool developers formed to create, evolve and foster adoption of Eclipse Platform | |
| based technology through a collaborative, open source software development model. | |
| Eclipse is dedicated to preserving the developers right to choose technology | |
| while supporting the vision of freely providing a robust, full-featured, commercial-quality | |
| platform for the development of highly integrated tools. </td> | |
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