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Eclipse Consortium Turns Two

Posted by timothy on from the penumbra dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Eclipse consortium celebrates its second anniversary this month, and is releasing milestone builds of the third version of its universal platform for tools integration. The Eclipse platform has been downloaded over 18,000 times, and in two short years has spawned an entire "ecosystem" of users and vendors. Eclipse has been recognized with more than eight top industry awards and honors, and open technology and commercial offerings associated with Eclipse have also grown at an unprecedented rate for tools technology."

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  1. the eclipse team rocks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I used to use JBuilder and VI, but ever since I switched to eclipse, there's no going back. The eclipse team should be praised for the high quality and cleaniness of the code. I had to write some custom widgets a half year back and going through the code I was amazed at the level of useful/insightful comments in the code. Eclipse is rapidly becoming the defacto enterprise middleware IDE, if it isn't already. Plus, there are more plugins for eclipse every day. Some of them are alpha, but few of them are getting quite good. Like now there's a SWT GUI builder that immitates VS.NET style gui development. There are also tons of server plugins for deployment/debugging and other good stuff.