Eclipse Ships Largest-Ever Release of Leading Open Source Software Development Platform

    OTTAWA, June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The Eclipse Foundation today announced
the availability of its annual coordinated project release, this year code
named Europa. Europa features 21 Eclipse projects for software developers
and is more than double the size of last year's record-setting release.
    The release consists of more than 17 million lines of code and the
contributions of over 310 open source developers located in 19 different
countries. The 2006 release, code named Callisto, involved 10 project
teams, 7 million lines of code, and 260 open-source developers in 12
countries. This is the fourth year in a row the Eclipse community has
shipped a major release on schedule.
    Innovations in the Europa release include new runtime technology for
creating server applications, developer tools for service-oriented
architecture (SOA), tools for improving team collaboration and support for
users of the popular Ruby programming language.
    "Eclipse is a very successful open development platform for the
software industry', said Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the
Eclipse Foundation. "The Eclipse Europa release is an important milestone
for fulfilling our community's strategy of providing a common development
platform for embedded, rich client, rich internet and server applications.
The tremendous advantage Eclipse provides is that it spans these different
types of applications with a common component model, frameworks and tools."
    Some highlights of the projects being released:

    -- Eclipse Equinox has added new services and capabilities to ease the
       development and deployment of server applications running on the
       Equinox runtime.

    -- Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) has added
       support for dynamic crosstabs, output to Microsoft Word and Excel
       formats and now allows for web services to act as a data source.
       These new features allow for more sophisticated reporting functionality
       to be integrated into Java applications.

    -- The Eclipse SOA Tools Project (STP) has made available their first
       release.   The release provides SOA developers tool support for SCA and
       JAX-WS standards, as well as a BPMN Modeler tool.

    -- The Eclipse Modeling project has updated the Eclipse Modeling Framework
       (EMF) to support Java 5 generics, allowing for creation and management
       of more complex and flexible data models.

    -- Eclipse Mylyn (formerly named Mylar) has added new collaboration
       features to enable task-centric collaboration for development teams.
       For developers working on large applications Mylyn's task Task-Focused
       UI reduces information overload and simplifies multi-tasking.

    -- Eclipse Dynamic Language Toolkit (DLTK) has introduced IDE support for
       Ruby and provides a framework to reduce complexity of developing IDEs
       for other dynamic languages, such as TCL and Python.

    -- Eclipse CDT release has made significant improvements for easier tool
       chain integration, specifically tighter integration with the MinGW gnu
       tool chain thus making it easier to develop C/C++ applications on the
       Windows platform.

    -- The Java development tools (JDT) project has introduced a number of
       features to increase the productivity of Java developers using Eclipse,
       including an enhanced debugger via hyperlinking and a new Quick Access
       feature to provide easier IDE navigation.

    -- Eclipse Web Tools Project (WTP) has introduced a number of features to
       increase the productivity of Web developers including a new visual
       editor for HTML, JSP and JSF, as well as support for new standards,
       such as Axis2 and basic JEE 5 support.
    The Europa release will be available from eclipse.org on June 29, 2007.
New download options have been created to provide complete download
packages for users requiring a Java IDE, JEE IDE, C/C++ IDE and an SDK for
RCP and Plugin developer.
    The complete list of Eclipse projects available in the Europa release
    includes:
    -- AJDT 1.5
    -- BIRT 2.2
    -- Buckminster 0.1.0
    -- CDT 4.0
    -- DLTK 1.0
    -- DSDP DD 0.9
    -- DSDP TM  2.0
    -- DTP 1.5
    -- ECF 1.0
    -- Eclipse Platform 3.3
    -- Dash 1.0
    -- EMF 2.3
    -- EMF-QTV 1.1
    -- M2T (JET) 0.8
    -- GEF 3.3
    -- GMF 2.0
    -- MDT 1.0
    -- Mylyn 2.0
    -- STP 0.6
    -- TPTP 4.4
    -- WTP 2.0
    About Eclipse
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building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks,
tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the
lifecycle. A large, vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors,
innovative start-ups, universities and research institutions and
individuals extend, complement and support the Eclipse Platform.
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