Ingres unveils developer bundle for Eclipse users
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(InfoWorld) - Ingres began offering a software bundle on WednesdayÂ to make it easier for developers to build Eclipse-based applications on top of the Ingres 2006 open-source database. The Ingres Eclipse Bundle brings together all the components developers need to create and run Java applications built using the Eclipse Foundation's open-source development framework. Available for download from the Ingres Web site as a single zipped file, the bundle includes a version of the Eclipse framework and the Ingres Eclipse DTP (Data Tools Project) plug-in, said Emma McGrattan, senior vice president of engineering at Ingres. The bundle also contains source code of a demonstration for developers on how to use Eclipse and Ingres and instructions on getting started with Ingres DTP. The Ingres DTP plug-in features enhancements Ingres made to the Eclipse Data Tools Project so that the development environment is more aware of syntax specific to the open-source database, making it easier to run SQLÂ statements and to debug code. Previously, users had to download the Eclipse framework themselves, find the particular plug-ins they needed, and use the Java Database Connectivity specification to link their Eclipse-based applications to Ingres, McGrattan said. Application developers within Ingres found that process time-consuming, and the company realized its users must also be struggling with the complexity. Ingres already offers bundles for the Python, PHP, and Perl scripting languages with support for Ruby coming next, McGrattan said. Ingres definitely plans bundles of its database with third-party software, notably around BI and application servers, McGrattan said. She sees plenty of opportunities for the vendor to "preplumb" or do the necessary integration legwork for customers between Ingres 2006 and other applications. "There are already projects underway at Ingres to build on top of Project Icebreaker as an appliance solution," she added. Expected to ship shortly, Icebreaker is a tight integration of the Ingres database with a version of rPath's Linux distribution. Ingres would also look to offer bundles based on the other operating systems it supports -- Windows and Unix. McGrattan also commented on recent executive departures. Last month, Dave Dargo, the vendor's chief technology officer, revealed in his blog that he'd left his full-time role at Ingres, while Dev Mukherjee, chief marketing officer is set to leave Friday to join Sears. "The timing was unfortunate," McGrattan said. "But it's no secret we hired Dave off the golf course." Dargo retired from Oracle a few years ago after 15 years with the company, where he headed up the vendor's Linux strategy. "We ran him ragged last year with traveling," McGrattan said, leading to Dargo deciding to step back from his day-to-day duties. He remains a key Ingres evangelist and technical advisor, recently representing the company at an open-source conference at Germany and in several customer interactions. "Dev is a loss for Ingres," McGrattan said, but sheÂ notes Mukherjee is leaving a strong marketing team in place, including former Red Hat and VMware executives. The vendor is also hopeful that Mukherjee's new employer, Sears, might become a future Ingres customer. Ingres is looking for a new CMO but has no plans to hire a new CTO, she added. McGrattan doesn't expect any further upset among the company's executive ranks. "I've been with Ingres since 1989, and I'm not going anywhere," she said. McGrattan's tenure predates both the spin-off of Ingres from CA in 2005 and CA's 1994 acquisition of The ASK Group, which had previously purchased Ingres. Â
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Krugle shipped on Tuesday an upgrade of its enterprise code search appliance for software development teams that is designed to offer improved scalability and search accuracy.Krugle is also now offering prospective customers the ability to evaluate the product on VMware before purchasing it.Krugle Enterprise 2.0 is sold as an appliance and can be configured to work with a variety of software change management systems, including ClearCase, Perforce, Microsoft&#39;s Team Foundation Server, Subversion, and others, according to Krugle. It also can crawl flat-file systems and code archives, according to the company, based in Menlo Park, California.Results can be viewed through a Web browser, but Krugle also offers support for searching directly from the Eclipse IDE (integrated development environment). There is an application programming interface for creating other integrations as well. &quot;We have a first-class integration with Eclipse, and the next cab off the ramp will be [Microsoft&#39;s] Visual Studio,&quot; said Matt Graney, senior director of product management.Michael Cot&#233;, an analyst with Redmonk, said Tuesday that it is important for software like Krugle to be tightly linked with a developer&#39;s core environment.&quot;If it can&#39;t be crammed into the IDE, the experience that&#39;s in front of the software developer every hour of the day, I think it won&#39;t get the face time it needs to be worth it,&quot; Cot&#233; said. &quot;As an example, project management software that doesn&#39;t have a touch-point in IDEs tends to only be looked at by managers, and then developers have no idea about the overall project status.&quot;However, it may in fact be easier to scan code results in a browser window, according to Graney. &quot;From a real-estate point of view, Eclipse is a busy sort of environment,&quot; he said.Users can use Krugle to search code repositories in a variety of ways, such as for a specific project, or solely for the comments that developers place with code upon check-in. The engine can also recognize various code features, such as function calls and class definitions.It supports more than 40 languages, according to the company. There is also some reporting capability built into the product, such as a &quot;heat map&quot; function that provides a snapshot of activity levels among various projects.&quot;We&#39;ve been really impressed with it,&quot; said Patrick Hendry, CEO of Thuridion, a software consulting company and early beta user of the 2.0 release. &quot;It definitely saves us time. We haven&#39;t sat down and quantified how much we&#39;re saving into dollars, but clearly that&#39;s happened.&quot;Hendry&#39;s company is aligned with Visual Studio, not Eclipse. It hasn&#39;t yet built an integration with Krugle, but may down the road if it becomes a paying customer, Hendry said. &quot;We&#39;ll probably take a look at that. It&#39;s not a must-have, but it would probably be nice to have.&quot;The Scotts Valley, California, company mostly creates software for publishers who then sell it, Hendry said. Thuridion has &quot;a large body of code&quot; at any given time -- some three million to four million lines of code, excluding comment documents, he said.Thuridion &quot;very briefly&quot; considered other vendors but felt Krugle returned better results, he said.Subscription pricing typically begins at about $25,000 per year and scales up depending on the size of the code base, the number of users and how often the code base is crawled.Krugle was formed in October 2005. Its competitors include Koders and Google. The company also runs a free site, www.krugle.org, which can be used to search more than two billion lines of open-source code. The krugle.org index can also be accessed through the enterprise product.
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AVR-Eclipse is a pair of plugins for the Eclipse IDE which adds toolchain support, through CDT, for the gcc compiler for the Atmel AVR series of microcontrollers, and adds a toolbar button to allow quick download of produced code to a target device.   This is an intermediate release with both bug fixes and new features.  Release Notes / Changelog are here: https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=189165&release_id=575495   This release is not compatible with the 2.0 versions. To update projects created with a 2.0.x version, a project converter is available. To execute the converter right click on your project and select the "Convert To..." item.  Download: Via Updatesite: http://avr-eclipse.sourceforge.net/updatesite/  Or via direct download in the download section.
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InfoWorld - Seeking to assist software developers coping with many languages, IBM plans to offer its Safari technology to the Eclipse open source community, an IBM official said at the EclipseCon 2007 conference on Thursday.
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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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BEA Systems Inc. on Monday unveiled an all-in-one package of products that make it easier for independent software vendors to build and install web applications on BEA&#39;s Java-based platform.
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Is that a download package, or... Eclipse gets its biggest update on Friday. The Europa update to the Eclipse Framework will wrap in 17 million lines of code spanning 21 projects, more than doubling last summer's first synchronized release, Callisto, with a mere seven million lines and 10 projects.â¦
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InfoWorld - Casting the open-source Eclipse platform as a linchpin of product uniformity efforts, BEA Systems plans to reconfigure several middleware clients so they can be plugged into the Eclipse IDE, a company official said on Monday.
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InfoWorld - Sun is sprucing up Solaris Express Developer Edition, which features the Solaris OS bundled with tools, by supporting enhanced application development for multicore processors.
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Open-source database vendor Ingres Corp. is hoping that its newly released Icebreaker database and Linux combination will help it win new customers and enter fresh markets.
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Service Pack 1 for the developers' toolkit for the second edition of Microsoft's just-in-time high-level language interpreter for embedded equipment was released yesterday.
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(InfoWorld) - CodeGear on Monday is releasing CodeGear 3rdRail, an IDE for building applications with the popular Ruby on Rails open source Web framework. The product gives Rails developers, who have been mostly relying on text editors, their own IDE, Borland said. Developers have flocked to Ruby on Rails for its speed and ease of use in building rich Web 2.0 applications, CodeGear said. "We've been watching the Rails framework grow in popularity for the last year, and we worked with it ourselves, and we're really excited about the capabilities of the Rails framework. We recognize that there's an opportunity for somebody to provide a really solid tool for Rails and one that is built just for doing that," said Joe McGlynn, director of product management at CodeGear. "Everything in the tool is focused on just building Rails applications," McGlynn said. 3rdRail includes a feature called Commanders, which provides a variety of capabilities intended to ease the development process, including the ability to run scripts. Command completion and option completion functions are offered that are similar to code completion capabilities for writing code. "It's a keystroke that gives you a pop-up list of what you can do," said McGlynn. A hyperlinking-of-output function offered as part of Commanders can link to files and directories in different areas of a project, making it easier to navigate files. Intelligent code completion and refactoring also are featured. Code completion is particularly useful for building Rails applications because a lot of the methods developers will want to call do not exist until runtime. Developers can write code against methods that are generated dynamically, McGlynn said. Developers with 3rdRail can more efficiently traverse application structures, CodeGear said. A dependency view uses a combination of syntactic and semantic analysis to view project interdependencies. A turnkey Ruby on Rails runtime environment is packaged with 3rdRail. It includes databases; Gems, a component packaging and distribution mechanism for Ruby; the Gem manager; and tools. 3rdRail is plug-in-compatible with the Eclipse platform. Web development tools bundled with the product include the Mozilla browser, JavaScript debugging, and DOM inspection. The creator of Ruby on Rails, David Heinemeier Hansson, could not be reached for comment on 3rdRail late last week. But CodeGear supplied this prepared statement from him: "CodeGear's new 3rdRail IDE represents an important step in tooling for Ruby on Rails,â Hansson said. âThey've gone beyond macros and generators and dealt with Rails code on a logical rather than merely textual level. This opens up a whole new world for things like advanced re-factorings and, in general, provides an environment that's familiar to anyone coming from IDE-heavy environments like .Net or J2EE." 3rdRail is available at an introductory price of $299, including a one-year subscription featuring quarterly product updates. The planned fourth-quarter update adds code validation, for scanning of code and looking for potential bugs. The first update for 2008 focuses on test management, for automatic building and running of unit tests and functional tests for an application. CodeGear had pre-announced the product this past spring. The announcement of Monday's release of 3rdRail is being made at the RailsConf Europe conference in Berlin.
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Actuate Corp. announced that it has joined the Eclipse Foundation, the organization focused on delivering an open source development environment, and has launched a new Eclipse project to focus on open-source business intelligence and reporting tools.
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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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(InfoWorld) - Sun is sprucing up Solaris Express Developer Edition, which features the Solaris OS bundled with tools, by supporting enhanced application development for multicore processors. The company is unveiling on Tuesday the 5/07 edition of the package, which features also includes Sun Studio 12, for parallelizing C, C++, and Fortran applications. Sun Studio 12, Sun said, features a distribution of Solaris based on OpenSolaris, the open-source variant of Solaris. Also included in the package is support for building multicore SPARC and x86-based processors. Solaris Express also supports Java development, which features its own multi-threaded development model. "The main intent [of Solaris Express Developer Edition] is to make it very easy for developers to get started building applications for Solaris," through provision of a single install, drivers, and tools, said Dan Roberts, director of Solaris and OpenSolaris marketing. Also in this version, Sun is offering a Gnome-based desktop, including Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and an update to the StarOffice 8 office application suite. The NetBeans 5.5 IDE is featured for developing desktop, Web, and Java applications. The version of Solaris featured in the package is based on the Nevada 64a build, which purports to look like the next major release of Solaris, referred to as Solaris 11. Included are desktop enhancements, bug fixes, upgrades, and updates. Gnome is the desktop manager in the build. Also included is automatic network configuration, in which the OS makes default choices. Wireless drivers in the new version of Solaris Express Developer Edition support wireless networking when installing this version of Solaris on laptops, Sun said. Solaris Express Developer Edition is available free for download here. Sun sells support services with per-incident costs starting at $49.
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Eclipse beater? NetBeans and Ruby, part 1 Let's be honest, the rise of the Eclipse development platform is the best thing to ever happen to Sun Microsystems' NetBeans integrated development environment (IDE).â¦
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(InfoWorld) - BEA Systems' planned next-generation application platform, called Project Genesis, will feature an open source component and accommodate scripting languages such as Ruby and Perl, BEA officials said at the BEAWorld San Francisco conference on Tuesday. Open source has been great for proliferating knowledge in the marketplace, said Alfred Chuang, BEA chairman, CEO, and president. In addition, he mentioned that development technologies will be open-sourced as part of Genesis and that BEA already offers open source technologies to the Eclipse Foundation. "We also believe that we likely have to be grooming and starting up a new community," he said. Genesis is intended to enable quick development of applications without requiring new infrastructure. It will feature tools that take collaboration, social tagging, and business process management and integrate them with existing enterprise applications. New sets of applications can be built, including mashups and composite applications as well as business processes. Wikis, blogs, and RSS feeds also are to be part of Genesis, said Rob Levy, CTO at BEA. The company announced Project Genesis earlier on Tuesday. Chuang, however, cautioned against going open source for the sake of going open source. "I think open source for open source's sake has been useless," Chuang said. "Some companies have taken multimillion lines of operating system code and open-sourced it," he said, critically. Although sometime-BEA rival Sun Microsystems did this with its Solaris OS, Chuang said his comment was not specifically targeted at Sun. Others have done this as well, he said. Genesis will support Java code as well as scripting languages, Chuang said. He cited scripting languages as an area where BEA historically has not had much involvement. A specific product plan for Genesis is set to be unveiled at the BEAWorld Shanghai conference in December. BEA officials stressed some components of Genesis, such as BEA's enterprise service bus technology, already exist. New products are to include a rules engine technology, as well as offerings for data manipulation and structured mapping. "Genesis is sort of where ultimately we want to take AquaLogic for this new generation of applications," Chuang said. AquaLogic is a BEA middleware platform. Genesis will support SaaS (software as a service) methodologies in that ISVs could use Genesis to build applications, which they could then offer via a SaaS format, Levy said.