Eclipse - an open development platform
December 5th, 2006 by cplus
…Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an extensible development platform, runtimes and application frameworks for building, deploying and managing software across the entire software lifecycle. Not just a Java IDE but Eclipse is much more than a Java IDE. The Eclipse open source community has over 60 open source projects. These projects can be conceptually organized into seven different categories:
- Enterprise Development.
- Embedded and Device Development.
- Rich Client Platform.
- Rich Internet Applications.
- Application Frameworks.
- Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
The Eclipse community is also supported by a large and vibrant ecosystem of major IT solution providers, innovative start-ups, universities and research institutions and individuals that extend support and complement the Eclipse Platform.
