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Windows alternative An open source, cross-platform desktop architecture from Eclipse is enjoying a surge of interest among developers according to an Evans Data Corp poll.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - The Eclipse Foundation, with an open source technology release on Monday, hopes to alleviate developers of clutter. Eclipse Mylar 1.0 is a task-focused user interface that reduces information overload and makes it easier to multitask, according to Eclipse. Mylar addresses a fundamental problem: that IDEs have made it easy to browse large systems with thousands or millions of lines of source code but they present too much data, said Mik Kersten, the project lead for Mylar. "They overload developers with so much information," Kersten said. "[Developers] can often spend more time looking for the information they need by browsing and searching than they actually spend programming," Kersten said. Accessible here, Mylar enables developers to focus on specific jobs at hand by bringing a task list view into the Eclipse IDE. Developers indicate which tasks they are working on and Mylar monitors all programming activities to create a task context featuring all information relevant to that task. Contexts can be shared with other developers. Mylarâs name was derived from the plastic film used to prevent blindness when viewing an eclipse. In the case of Eclipse's Mylar, "it prevents information blindness when staring at the Eclipse IDE," Kersten said. "This integrates across the entire Eclipse IDE," Kersten said. The task management facility is called a task-focused user interface. Also incorporated into Mylar is access to issue trackers such as Bugzilla. By integrating issue-tracking into the IDE, developers no longer have to toggle back and forth between browser and e-mail client to use an issue tracker. Developers also can work with Bugzilla reports offline and then reconnect afterward. Additionally, developers can be summoned to immediately work on a task that can show up in their task list. Mylar's context filtering and task management drew praises from analyst Michael Cote of RedMonk. Task-filtering is automated, as opposed to it being manually done before, he said. "When I've used Eclipse in the past, you can manually create a focus that filters out everything. But with Mylar, it can automatically create that focus for you, so it's less work on your part to create the focus," Cote said. "Because it's done programmatically, it can get a better sense of things that are related that you may not think of." But Mylar's freely available innovation could encroach on commercial products, Cote said. "I think this is the start of something that could do that, certainly," he said. "There's always encroachment with Eclipse," Cote said. Rational with its Jazz project offers technology similar to Mylar but on a much larger scale, Cote said, but Mylar could be expanded with capabilities now offered commercially. Mylar in its first version is developer-focused while other technologies in the space have capabilities such as application lifecycle management, Cote said. Mylar can be embedded into existing commercial products, Kersten said. It solves the problem of developers having to cope with multiple task managers that offer an inconsistent experience, he added. Third parties also can innovate on top of Mylar. Vendors including CollabNet and Borland are committed to using Mylar, he said.
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PC Magazine - At EclipseWorld, Eclipse Foundation Executive Director Mike Milinkovich shares the secret sauce of open-source ingredients that draws developers to the platform.
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Take my services, please EclipseCon Oracle has issued a fresh chapter in its quixotic open source strategy by fully opening a key piece of its Java application server and database technology.â¦
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Ingres is making it simpler for Eclipse developers to build Java applications to run on its open-source database.
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InfoWorld - An Eclipse IDE plug-in that would provide search capabilities specifically for developers is being readied by a University of California, Berkeley computer science professor.
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(InfoWorld) - Santa Clara, Calif. -- Eclipse Foundation Executive Director Mike Milinkovich criticized Microsoft on Tuesday for not approaching Eclipse about interoperability between .Net and open source Eclipse technologies. Speaking at the EclipseCon conference, Milinkovich also shined a spotlight on OSGi (Open Services Gateway initiative), which provides the basis of Eclipse's core plug-in model for software development. Commenting on Microsoft, Milinkovich said Microsoft sends representatives to EclipseCon every year. Eclipse and Microsoft officials in attendance then agree that a meeting ought to be set up between the two sides. But afterward, "they never call," Milinkovich said. "Ask your friends at Microsoft what they're doing to interoperate with Eclipse," Milinkovich said during a press conference. Milinkovich said he expects Microsoft to someday join Eclipse and that there are enough points of interaction between these two development "universes" that interoperability is the right thing to do. Currently, there are a few point solutions for interoperability, such as Teamprise providing an Eclipse plug-in enabling Eclipse-based developers to access Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server product for application lifecycle management, Milinkovich said. (Teamprise announced on Tuesday that it has joined the Eclipse Foundation.) But users would benefit from cooperation between the two camps to provide interoperability, Milinkovich said. A company with, for example, developers building in .Net and on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform might want to see resulting applications be easily interoperable, he said. Microsoft, contacted for its response to Milinkovich's plea, declined to comment. But an industry analyst questioned whether Microsoft really needs to do anything about interoperating with Eclipse. "I think there's a lot of people that make a very good living bridging the two [platforms] and SOA makes that less of an issue," said Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. With SOA, the use of mashups and services boosts interoperability, according to Gardner. Eclipse technologies based on OSGi could become the open source alternative to .Net for software development, Milinkovich said. Eclipse began basing its technology on the OSGi component standard with the Eclipse 3.0 platform in 2004. "OSGi I believe is going to be one of those overnight successes that endures eight years or nine years in the making," Milinkovich said. "Itâs a component model for Java and this is something that Java actually has been lacking since its inception," Milinkovich said. The OSGi community is participating in Java Specification Request 291, which would have OSGi become part of the Java component model, Milinkovich said. "One of the great things about [OSGi] is it's supported by a number of vendors and open source communities. Eclipse is not the only implementation of OSGi," Milinkovich said. The universal component model provided by OSGi is being used in embedded devices, rich client applications, and server applications, with support from organizations such as NASA, technology vendors such as IBM and Oracle, and open source communities such as Apache and Spring, Eclipse said. The OSGi Developer Conference is happening concurrently with EclipseCon this week. Also at Eclipse on Tuesday, Milinkovich noted a new project proposal called Maya, which is being led by Cisco and is intended to make it easier to deploy Eclipse and Eclipse Rich Client Platform solutions within large enterprises. Another goal of Maya is making the deployment and update process transparent to end users. Milinkovich also said Eclipse plans its simultaneous release of multiple projects, called Europa, in June. Europa will feature the Eclipse 3.3 platform and 22 projects, including the latest versions of technologies such as the Data Tools Platform, Web Tools Platform and Business Intelligence, and Reporting Tools projects. Last June, Eclipse did its Callisto release as the predecessor to Europa, but that only had 10 projects.
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TechWeb - Sun's recent decision to open-source some elements of Java is pretty exciting -- but a few years overdue, says &lt;i&gt;InformationWeek&lt;/i&gt; columnist Eric A. Hall
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The results of the latest poll from the International PHP Magazine are in. The question this time asked which, of the options given, were your favorites in the Smyfony project's feature set. There was a clear winner above all of the others - the scaffolding that it makes so simple.   Some of the other options that were included but didn't get nearly as many votes were:  Simple templating and helpers Multilingualism and I18N support Object model and MVC separation Ajax support  Following at a distant second was the "Object model and MVC separation" choice (and to others, "Enterprise ready" and "Ajax support" nipping close at its heels).   Be sure to cast your vote in this week's poll that asks your opinion on some of the rules that the PHP Throwdown has set in place. Vote for the one that you think fits best with the spirit of the competition.
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In a new blog post, Ligaya Turmelle reminds us about the Call for Papers that's still open for this year's OSCON - but not for much longer.   Anyway, here is the link for submitting a proposal and the currently listed tracks include Linux, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, Databases, Desktop Applications, Web Applications (client-side and server-side), Windows, Administration, Security, and Emerging Topics.   The deadline for entry is this coming Monday, February 5th (2007) and all entrants much submit the form for their entries to be considered.
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Suits petrified of covert open-source developers EclipseCon Fear is stalking the corridors of corporate power, as executives sweat over the legal exposure caused by developers using open source software.â¦
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No one is forcing anyone to put their work into the public commons. But, once you do, you need to accept that you no longer can wholly control how it is used. The open-source software world understands this to its benefit.
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The Zend Developer Zone (and Zend) are running a new contest where you could win yourself a free copy of their popular Zend Studio IDE.   It's a very poorly kept secret that Zend is working on the next generation of Zend Studio. They must be getting down to the 'fit and finish' pieces of the project because my buddy Yossi wrote me and asked me to enlist the help of the PHP community at large. So here's his request. The Zend Studio team needs your help. They are looking for a code snippet to showcase the syntax highlighting and debugging capabilities of Zend Studio.    They're looking for certain types of code snippets and a list of the criteria are included in the ZDZ post. The deadline's at at midnight (Pacific) on July the 26th, so get those snippets together and get them sent off for your chance to win!
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(InfoWorld) - Oracle is making the whole of its TopLink Java persistence framework freely available as part of the vendor's increased involvement in the open-source development tools Eclipse Foundation community, the company announced Tuesday. The database, middleware, and applications vendor also proposed a new Eclipse project dubbed EclipseLink aimed at providing a set of persistence services to be used in Java and OSGi (Open Services Gateway initiative) development environments. The starting point for the EclipseLink persistence platform project will be the existing code base of TopLink. Oracle made the announcements Tuesday at the EclipseCon conference in Santa Clara, California. The vendor has also boosted the level of its membership in the open-source organization, becoming an Eclipse Foundation board member and a strategic developer, according to Rick Schultz, vice president of Oracle's Fusion middleware. "This is a continued evolution of our Eclipse strategy," he said. "EclipseLink will be the first Oracle-led Eclipse run-time project." A member of the Eclipse Foundation since 2002, Oracle already leads three Eclipse tooling projects around JavaServer Faces, JPA (Dali Java Persistence API), and BPEL (business process execution language). TopLink first appeared as a commercial product in 1994 from The Object People, which was later acquired by WebGain. In 2002, Oracle acquired the TopLink technology from WebGain. TopLink's persistence architecture includes object-to-relational, object-to-XML, and enterprise information system data access through such standardsÂ as JPA, Java API for XML Binding, Service Data Objects, and the Java Connector Architecture. Oracle had already open sourced part of TopLink, the object-to-relational mapping component, as TopLink Essentials. After that move received "a really positive response" from the developer community, the vendor decided to take the next step and make all of the software's source code freely available, Schultz said. In terms of competition for TopLink and the proposed EclipseLink project, he pointed to two Apache Software Foundation open-source projects -- Hibernate and OpenJPA. Schultz said TopLink has a wider breadth than the Apache projects, which he positioned as more specific to object-to-relational mapping. Oracle will continue to offer TopLink as a commercial product with the Eclipse project providing the basis for that in the future, according to Steve Harris, vice president of Oracle's Java Platform Group. As well as working with the Eclipse Foundation, Oracle also positions its JDeveloper development tool as an alternative to the organization's Eclipse rival offering. "We let developers choose JDeveloper or the Eclipse environment," Schultz said.
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Wants your huddling masses IBM is introducing paid support for users of development tools using Eclipse, while expanding its own products running on the open source framework.â¦
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Ziff Davis - Open-source leader Eric Raymond spells out his objections to Sun President Jonathan Schwartz's contention that the Java Community Process is truer to open-source ideas than is Linux.
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Could become corporate developers' best friend Red Hat has announced the beta release of Red Hat Developer Studio, the new Eclipse-based IDE for the Red Hat family of solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.â¦