Hotspots: Eclipse 3.0 officially issued
Eclipse's development festival beyond the rhythm of commercial companies to develop similar software. Eclipse's informal version of the milestone is updated almost every three months, each time because of the upgrade of the online official version of the commercial software because the amount of the version replaced by the version is almost equivalent to the official version of the commercial software. After 15 months, Eclipse.org announced the new version of the software development platform Eclipse today. 3.0 will be officially released on July 1 this year. After three and a half years of development, Eclipse's importance has been almost important to other open source software such as Apache, Linux.
The Eclipse project launched in November 2001. The initial supporters include Borland, Red Hat, and SUSE, but the main power of Eclipse comes from IBM, which donates source code worth $ 40 million. Eclipse provides an expandable development environment through its own core and plugins. Because it is developed by Java, this means that Eclipse can cross the platform limit; at the same time, its excellent modular design makes it possible to "broadly" various plugins to extend its own function with minimal expense.
Eclipse is based on Java, but is not limited to Java. One of its goals is to become a "Universal Development Environment". Java Integrated Development Environment (Java IDE) is the prototype of Eclipse, called JDT (Java Development Tools, Java Development Tool). Now, Eclipse has a CDT (C Development Tools that supports C / C , and the integrated environment that supports COBOL development. The IDE of the network and J2EE applications is also designed.
In addition to these extensive goals of Eclipse, another marking Eclipse vitality is its huge community resources and rich plug-ins. These two advantages support open source and commercial projects, the latter by Borland, HP, IBM active participation IBM's WebSphere Studio and Rational products are also very profitable from the Eclipse project. It is also worth noting that those mainstream embedded software companies such as Montavista and QNX have begun to use Eclipse as a framework for its programming tools (Framework). Other Eclipse supporters include: Intel, Oracle, and Novell. Novell announced that it will join Eclipse in all products in the future to provide a unified tool platform.
There are two key names here, one is Sun, and the other is Microsoft. The name of Eclipse is always an argument, the meaning of Eclipse - yaw, representing IBM's intention of weakening Sun in Java community. Despite this dispute, Eclipse's development is old, and SUN has found itself discovered that its similar open source software NetBeans has gradually increased by Eclipse.
Microsoft is exactly one thing. Obviously, most companies that support Eclipse use Eclipse as a chance to combat Microsoft, but this battlefield is in the developer community. Eclipse is a trusted threat to Microsoft Visual Studio. Eclipse's power is not only a number of features of the modern IDE required for developers, but it can do things that Microsoft can't do, including platforms across various hardware and software, provide an open architecture that allows users to freely choose and customize. And encourage software companies to compete with each other on a common platform (rather than moving monopoly).
