Sonatype Joins Eclipse Foundation as Strategic Developer With Seat on Board of Directors

Sonatype Joins Eclipse Foundation as Strategic Developer With Seat on Board of
Directors
Creators of Maven, the popular build and release framework and repository,
demonstrate commitment to Eclipse IDE

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Sonatype, the leader in Java
development infrastructure, today announced that they have joined the Eclipse
Foundation as a Strategic Developer. Sonatype will now have a seat on the
Board of Directors and on the Eclipse Planning and Architecture council.
Additionally, Sonatype has pledged to commit at least eight of their
developers full-time to developing Eclipse technology.
"We're very pleased to welcome Sonatype onto the board of the Eclipse
Foundation as a strategic member," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director
of the Eclipse Foundation. "Sonatype has demonstrated their commitment to the
open source community, and we look forward to working closely with them to
integrate the Maven and Eclipse open source communities and provide a strong
environment for Java development."
Sonatype was founded by the team behind Maven, the most popular open
source Java build and release framework and repository, with over 2 million
downloads and deep penetration of the Fortune 2,000. The company is dedicated
to easing the pain of Java software development by offering support and tools
around Maven that increase compatibility, ease dependency tracking and reduce
barriers between development environments.
"Sonatype shares the Eclipse Foundation's goal of providing and promoting
top notch open source solutions to developers, and we look forward to working
with the Eclipse Foundation closely," said Jason van Zyl, founder and CTO of
Sonatype. "In our role as a Strategic Developer, we are committed to bringing
together the technology and communities of Eclipse and Maven, which are very
complementary. We're very enthusiastic about the prospects for combining the
power and scale of Maven with the usability and speed of Eclipse."
Sonatype will be joining the group of current strategic members of the
Eclipse Foundation, which include companies such as Oracle, CA and Borland. As
an Eclipse Strategic Developer, Sonatype will lead the eclipse.org m2eclipse
technology project, an Eclipse plugin that enables Maven support in Eclipse
and Eclipse support in Maven. The project eases the pain of Java software
developers using Maven projects, Eclipse plug-in developers using Maven tool
support, and build engineers using Maven build support, as part of Sonatype's
efforts to bridge the communities of Maven and Eclipse.
"As an organization dedicated to helping meet developer needs, we welcome
companies like Sonatype that encourage integration and collaboration," said
James Ward, Technical Evangelist for Adobe Flex and long-time Maven user. "The
open source software development community can only benefit as Sonatype begins
working more tightly with the Eclipse Foundation."
About Sonatype
The leader in Java development infrastructure, Sonatype delivers
enterprise-class software, support and services that reduce development time
and complexity, encourage developer collaboration, and significantly cut
operating costs for organizations of any size. Sonatype incorporates Java
standards to set community-wide best-practices and enable cross-vendor
integration. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., Sonatype was founded in 2007
and is privately held. For more information, please visit
http://www.sonatype.com.
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