Eclipse 3.0 bundled with free plugins

Yoxos Eclipse Distribution offers developers Eclipse 3.0 bundled with dozens 
of popular Open Source plugins and an easy to use installation tool.

Innoopract, a provider of Eclipse-based tools and services announced the 
introduction of Yoxos, the first Eclipse Distribution. Yoxos is a 
distribution of the new Eclipse 3.0 plus a choice of the most popular Open 
Source plugins, and prepackaged bundles of plugins eg, for Web development. 
Yoxos aims to provide a valuable service to the Eclipse community by 
extending the manageability of the Eclipse platform for users who utilize 
Open Source plugins. With Yoxos, developers are spared the significant 
investment in time and effort of, on the one hand finding, downloading and 
installing plugins, and on the other hand managing the versions of plugins to 
function properly with Eclipse and with each other.

As new versions of Eclipse are introduced, managed sets of plugins provided by 
Yoxos enable customers to seamlessly upgrade to new versions. The goal of 
Yoxos is to provide typical distribution services - helping to organize, 
manage and install custom development environments from a broad set of Open 
Source offerings. Yoxos will donate its code for any extensions to Open 
Source plugins back to the community and will help plugin providers and Open 
Source projects to adhere to Eclipse best practices.

Eclipse is a very powerful and extensive platform and through the ecosystem of 
available plugins, developers have a broad set of choices for their 
development projects. The breadth of Eclipse has its costs though, namely the 
investment in time to find and download and evaluate plugins, as well as to 
keep the working set of platform and plugins up to date.

Instead of having to obtain plugins from many sources and testing the 
compatibility by trial and error, customers get their plugins in a 
pre-integrated package from one source. With the Yoxos installer they can 
choose specific plugins, certain bundles or create custom sets. With each new 
release of Yoxos, the latest versions of Eclipse is provided and tested 
against all contained plugins, thus drastically reducing the risk of the 
Eclipse installation not functioning as new versions are added piecemeal.

"Our customers have been asking again and again for a distribution service 
that makes their lives easier. We are happy to provide the first solution in 
this area with the launch of Eclipse 3.0." said Jochen Krause, Founder and 
President of Innoopract. "Yoxos is the ideal solution for developers who want 
to take advantage of Open Source offerings but can't spend weeks evaluating 
dozens of plugins and keeping their environment up to date."
Pricing and Availability

The Yoxos Eclipse Distribution available since July 1st. The distribution can 
be downloaded or purchased as a CD for $19.95 from www.yoxos.com. With future 
releases customers will also have the option of subscribing for an annual 
membership including a total of 6 updates per year.

URL: http://www.yoxos.com/