News Release: Expanded Broad-Based Eclipse Initiative Delivers Open Test and Performance Tools Platform

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Expanded Broad-Based Eclipse Initiative Delivers Open Test and
Performance Tools Platform



·        Major Open-Source Collaboration in Testing, Tracing,

Profiling and Monitoring

·        Cross-Vendor, Cross-Platform, Cross-Lifecycle

·        Open Platform and Extensible Exemplary Tooling

*       Hyades Project Builds on and Extends the Existing



SAN FRANCISCO-August 2, 2004-Today the Eclipse Foundation announced the
creation of a Test and Performance Tools Platform Top Level Project to
provide an open-development platform supplying frameworks and services
for test and performance tools that are used throughout the software
lifecycle (testing, tracing/profiling, tuning, logging, monitoring,
analysis, autonomics, administration, etc.). Also included in this
platform are data collection services and user interfaces for tracing,
test case execution, logging and statistical behavior in local or remote
execution environments. In committing to lead the project, Intel
Corporation makes a major resource contribution to the Eclipse
Foundation and to the development of software within the project.



"We are excited to contribute to the advancement that this Eclipse
open-source initiative brings to the industry in the area of test and
performance tooling," said Tyler Thessin, engineering manager for Intel
Software Development Products and lead of the Eclipse Test and
Performance Tools Project Management Committee. "This
infrastructure--and the tools built upon it--provide significant
capabilities and benefits to the software industry and will contribute
to the continued success of Eclipse and the growth of the Eclipse
ecosystem."



This expanded initiative extends the Eclipse Hyades project which, over
the last year and a half, has developed extensive Eclipse-based
infrastructure and tooling for test and performance. "Hyades is one of
the great achievements of the Eclipse Community," said Mike Milinkovich,
recently appointed executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. "In my
new role, I will seek to ensure Hyades gets the level of exposure and
adoption that it deserves."



The core interoperability layer continues to be developed in a project
known as the Hyades Core Platform led by Intel. Three additional streams
of activity have also been identified as projects within the Test and
Performance Top Level Project: Hyades Testing, Hyades Tracing and
Profiling, and Hyades Monitoring.



"The involvement of Intel and other significant companies will ensure
wider adoption of the open Hyades Core Platform as consensus
architecture for innovative value-added products," said Dr Mike Norman,
CEO of Scapa Technologies, who led the original Hyades project and now
leads the Hyades Testing project. "For example, Intel will drive the
adoption of the infrastructure to enable developers to harness the full
power of Intel processors for applications."



Serge Lucio, senior product manager at IBM Rational who currently leads
both the Hyades Monitoring and the Hyades Tracing and Profiling Projects
said, "IBM is committed both to developing the Hyades Core Platform and
other elements of Eclipse Test and Performance software and to
leveraging them across a broad spectrum of its products."



SAP, Compuware and FOKUS continue to actively contribute to the Test and
Performance project to provide a breadth of experience and a wide
perspective to the team.



About Eclipse

The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member-supported corporation
that hosts community based open-source projects. Eclipse creates
royalty-free technology and a universal platform for development tools
integration, modeling, testing and functionally-rich application
construction. Eclipse based offerings give developers freedom of choice
in a multi-language, multi-platform, multi-vendor supported environment.
Eclipse delivers a dynamic plug-in based framework that makes it easier
to create and integrate technology, saving time and money. By
collaborating and sharing core integration technology, technology
providers can concentrate and focus on areas of expertise and
differentiation. The Eclipse Platform is written in the Java language
and comes with extensive plug-in construction toolkits and examples. It
has already been deployed on a range of development workstations
including Linux, QNX, Mac OS X and Windows-based systems. Full details
of the Eclipse Foundation and white papers documenting the design of the
Eclipse Platform are available at www.eclipse.org
<http://www.eclipse.org/>> .



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