CNET Technology Information Network International reported more than a year ago, many people believe that the Eclipse open source code is only one of the means of IBM used to sell their own software. But now, this plan has become an innovation source of the Java tool industry. This Monday, the total number of Eclipsecon conferences in Cairo, and is different from last year. At the opening meeting, IBM's technical masters will no longer be the protagonist. Instead, this Open Source Foundation will show up the latest directors, including IBM opponents BEA, Sybase and Borland, and describe more and more developments in Eclipse. "Eclipse is definitely the mainstream Java tool platform." Meta Group analyst Thomas Murphy. "Future Eclipse organizations will continue to vigorously advocate this general-purpose platform." IBM was established in 2001 with a Eclipse alliance with a $ 40 million seed fund, and donated a lot of source. Today, 91 members include many of the world's largest software vendors. According to Evans Data, Eclipse is currently the most popular Java development tool. Eclipse is divided from IBM a year ago and is independently non-profit organization. After independence, it grows better, and manufacturers who are not willing to meet will be added, such as BEA. In fact, Eclipse almost integrates most of the Java suppliers, the only more obvious exception is SUN, and the participation of Oracle is not too high. But such achievements are enough to make the previous years of industrial standardization as a big sweat. "Bob BiB BiB BiB BiB BiB BiB BiB BiB Bickel, Java Manufacturer JBoss Strategy, said that the competition in the official Java tool industry he refers to. "Eclipse has just passed the critical mass", and the manufacturers are willing to carry out the cost of developing new tools. "He said. Eclipse Java manufacturers in full enterprises have to fight against Microsoft, and they must have a common development tool between each other, and the two camps often kill their eyes in order to fight for developers. This is because program people can affect how companies can choose. Value of the backed backend business program software. Eclipse software is like Microsoft's own development products in some ways: Visual Studio. On a so-called Eclipse platform, program workers can use several different tools. On the front end, the user can integrate a variety of tools to write a PLUG-IN program or test application. IBM provides a variety of product portfolios, a common user interface, and a mechanism for sharing information as a common basis of Eclipse software as a developing tool. Microsoft is also a similar platform approach, and third-party manufacturers can write Visual Studio's Add-ON (expander), developers can also write programs in a number of different programming languages. The biggest difference between Eclipse and Microsoft is probably that the former belongs to an open source, which represents any one of the three plus four to download and modify the source code. Only the architecture of the Eclipse foundation is more special, reflecting that companies are now increasingly proactive for open source programming. Eclipse is not like a general open source program to allow a donation from volunteers, which is dominated by the manufacturer. Whether it is a member of the board or a program sponsors, almost from the independent software developer (ISVS). Eclipse Executive Director Mike Milinkovich said that this vendor member system is particularly deliberately designed. He said that ECLISPE software has developed fast because of the relationship between the membership system, and adds an open source development model. This is generally different from the practice of standard organizations. "Many innovations come from open source code." MiLinkovich believes that the standard should appear after the new software is invented, "I always think that it is necessary to innovate and take care of the standard. It is very confusing.
