| <p>The Eclipse Technology Project is a top-level project at The |
| Eclipse Foundation. As a top-level project, the Technology Project does |
| not itself contain code, but rather plays host to a large assortment of |
| projects covering a wide diversity of subject areas.</p> |
| |
| <p>Projects under the Eclipse Technology Project tend to have |
| limited lifecycles. Unlike the other top-level Projects, the Technology |
| Projects are meant to be technology explorations or incubators. When |
| these projects have explored, proved, or disproved their associated |
| technologies, the project comes to its <a |
| href="http://www.eclipse.org/technology/archived.php">natural end</a>. |
| For some projects, this end is a paper publishing the research results; |
| for others, this end is to be incorporated into the base technology of |
| another top-level project.</p> |