{"id":85,"date":"2006-04-26T14:50:06","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T13:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.galhano.com\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2008-02-07T18:36:16","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T17:36:16","slug":"eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"ECLIPSE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EclipseWhat is Eclipse?<\/h3>\n

Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing a vendor-neutral \t\t\topen development platform and application frameworks for building software. The Eclipse Foundation \t\t\tis a not-for-profit corporation formed to advance the creation, evolution, \t\t\tpromotion, and support of the Eclipse Platform and to cultivate both an open source community \t\t\tand an ecosystem of complementary products, capabilities, and services.<\/p>\n

As it says in the Purposes section of the Foundation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bylaws<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n \t\t\tThe purpose of Eclipse Foundation Inc.,(the “Eclipse Foundation”), is to advance the creation, \t\t\tevolution, promotion, and support of the Eclipse Platform and to cultivate both an open source \t\t\tcommunity and an ecosystem of complementary products, capabilities, and services. \t\t\t<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Eclipse has formed an independent open eco-system around royalty-free technology and a universal \t\t\tplatform for tools integration. Eclipse based tools give developers freedom of choice in a \t\t\tmulti-language, multi-platform, multi-vendor environment. Eclipse provides a plug-in based \t\t\tframework that makes it easier to create, integrate and utilize software tools, saving time \t\t\tand money. By collaborating and exploiting core integration technology, tool producers can \t\t\tleverage platform reuse and concentrate on core competencies to create new development \t\t\ttechnology. The Eclipse Platform is written in the Java language and comes with extensive \t\t\tplug-in construction toolkits and examples. It has already been deployed on a range of \t\t\tdevelopment workstations including Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, QNX, Mac OS X and Windows based \t\t\tsystems. A full description of the Eclipse community and white papers documenting the design \t\t\tand use of the Eclipse Platform are available at http:\/\/www.eclipse.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can learn more about the structure and mission of the Eclipse Foundation by reading the \t\t\tformal documents<\/a> that establish how the foundation operates, and by reading the \t\t\tpress release<\/a> \t\t\tannouncing the creation of the independent organization.<\/p>\n

For software licensing, website terms of use, and legal FAQs, please see our \t\t\tlegal stuff<\/a> page. \t\t\tEclipse logos and graphics are found on our eclipse \t\t\tlogos page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>History of Eclipse<\/h3>\n

<\/a><\/a>Industry leaders Borland, IBM, MERANT, QNX Software Systems, Rational Software, Red Hat, \t \tSuSE, TogetherSoft and Webgain formed the initial eclipse.org Board of Stewards in November \t \t2001. By the end of 2003, this initial consortium had grown to over 80 members.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/a>On Feb 2, 2004 the Eclipse Board of Stewards announced<\/a> Eclipse\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reorganization into \t \ta not-for-profit corporation. Originally a consortium that formed when IBM released the Eclipse \t \tPlatform into Open Source, Eclipse became an independent body that will drive the platform\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \t \tevolution to benefit the providers of software development offerings and end-users. All technology \t \tand source code provided to and developed by this fast-growing community is made \t \tavailable royalty-free via the Eclipse Public License.<\/p>\n

With the change to an independent not-for-profit corporation, a full-time \t \tEclipse management organization has been established to engage \t \twith commercial developers and consumers, academic and research institutions, standards bodies, \t \ttool interoperability groups and individual developers, plus coordinate the open source projects. To \t \tmaintain a reliable and accessible development roadmap, a set of councils (Requirements, \t \tArchitecture and Planning) will guide the development done by Eclipse Open Source projects. With \t \tthe support of over 115 member companies, Eclipse already hosts 9 major Open Source projects that \t \tinclude a total of over 50 subprojects.<\/p>\n

To oversee and staff this new management organization, Eclipse has established a Board of Directors \t\t\tdrawn from four classes of membership: Strategic Developers, Strategic Consumers, Add-in Providers \t\t\tand Open Source project leaders.<\/p>\n

Developers and Strategic Consumers hold seats on this Board, as do representatives elected by \t\t\tAdd-in Providers and Open Source project leaders. Strategic Developers, Strategic Consumers and \t\t\tAdd-in Providers contribute annual dues. The founding Strategic Developers and Strategic Consumers \t\t\tare Ericsson, HP, IBM, Intel, MontaVista Software, QNX, SAP and Serena Software. In August 2004, \t\t\tActuate joined the Eclipse Board as a Strategic Developer.<\/p>\n

In the Eclipse Platform, code access and use is controlled through the Eclipse Public License, \t\t\twhich allows individuals to create derivative works with worldwide re-distribution rights that \t\t\tare royalty free. Those who use the Eclipse Platform may also want to use one or more of the \t\t\tofficial Eclipse logos found on our artwork page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is Eclipse? Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing a vendor-neutral open development platform and application frameworks for building software. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation formed to advance the creation, evolution, promotion, and support of the Eclipse Platform and to cultivate both an open source community and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"close","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-java","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}