This year's Eclipse congenization meeting
February 28th
March 3 was held in the Hyatt Regent of Burlingame, California.
On the morning of March 3, Lee Nackman from IBM Rational has made a speech entitled "Eclipse". The following is a summary of a related report on Eclipsepowered.org.
Original text:
http://www.eclipsepowered.org/archives/
2005/03/03 / DAY-4-The-Eclipse-Phenomenon /
NACKMAN The introduction of Eclipse originated from 1995-1998, the Ide market at the time was Microsoft Visual Studio's world, Java's IDE and similar WebLogic server products have just started, and IBM's product line is relatively confusing, though Hames the brand of Visual Age, but actually not integrated products together
Around 1998, they realized how the application server (middleware) market competition is how to attract developers write applications for these servers. So they wanted to build a framework that allows partners to complete the vacancy function, and in fact IBM at the time of the laboratory tend to do the same thing in different technologies.
Several partnership submit a team of prospects to IBM, in November 1998, reached a consensus: Building a new tool platform and a new Java IDE. At that time, a branch named OTI was developing a IDE that supported Plugin, and the final decision was a topic development tool platform, and another IBM team was responsible for building the first IBM product based on the platform. That's why we now see Eclipse has two different versions of heavyweight projects: Eclipse Platform and Eclipse JDT.
The core decision includes:
u gives task to small, close teams - conceptual and understanding of understanding;
u Build an extensible platform and an excellent Java IDE - used to increase the popularity of the platform;
The U platform and IDE team closely cooperate - there is a clean platform interface and a good feedback mechanism has contributed to a better, correct product;
U Products and Platform Team Separation - Guaranteed the Complete and Maintenance of the Product Desk Products Multiple Versions;
u Do do full with Visual Studio competition in Windows environment - this is the motive behind SWT.
By 2000, all progress is very smooth, so they intend to start using this project as a product, replacing Visual Age.
Regarding the name of Eclipse, Nackman explained this: At that time, all the words starting with "E" were very fashionable. Although many companies / institutions / products have already used this name, the end IBM decided to adopt "Eclipse" Named, on the one hand, Eclipse words are very good; on the other hand, they want Eclipse (Japanese food / beyond / cover) Visual Studio. The author believes that there is still a more reasonable explanation behind behind: blocking Sun's light.
The next question is how to promote Eclipse so is it widely accepted? Time has been in 2001, at that time, Visual Studio and Microsoft's product line continued to grow, manufacturers still kept introducing developers into middleware development, similar to Borland companies were also launching different Java related products. These Java camp companies / agencies are doing their own set of features in fact, rather than pushing a mature product line to compete with Microsoft. The key is how to convince you believe that Eclipse is such a platform. This is why Eclipse finally went to open source.
The IBM in this period has a lot of open source experience, such as they see the momentum of Apache's HTTP server, so they use Apache technology in WebSphere, and they also actively help similar Apache and Linux technology. The group, so that open source Eclipse became the most reasonable choice at the time. In the end, Eclipse project works from IBM from IBM, IBM is working with HP / SAP / Intel and other companies to set up Eclipse Foundation, from the name, like a non-profit organization such as the famous apache Foundation.
Author's words
Eclipse is currently the latest Release version number 3.0, in Eclipse SDK
In 3.1 M4, the function of J2SE 5.0 is also achieved. As a developer, I am very pleased that I can use such an excellent product today, and Eclipse continues to steadily in an amazing speed, enough to see its strong vitality. If you have used Eclipse, you will be attracted to its simple style and powerful features. If you haven't started your Eclipse trip, what are you still hesitating? Try the next one!
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