Doors Open for EclipseCon 2009

Community Members Announce New Innovations and Products
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
EclipseCon 2009, the sixth annual Eclipse community conference, opens today at
the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. The conference features
the latest Eclipse developments and provides a forum for attendees to discuss
key business and technical issues facing the community.

Clay Shirky, Adjunct Professor for the Interactive Telecom Program at NYU, and
Jeff Atwood, blogger and CEO of stackoverflow.com, will deliver the opening
keynote presentation. Wednesday's keynote will be given by Peter Vosshall, Vice
President and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon.com, and Don MacAskill,
Co-founder and CEO of SmugMug, and Thursday's keynote will be given by Tim
Wagner, Principal Development Manager for Microsoft Visual Studio Platform and
Kevin McGuire, Eclipse UI Architect and Design & Usability Lead at IBM.

EclipseCon 2009 features technical talks and tutorials on a variety of Eclipse
projects and technologies, including Equinox, Eclipse Rich Client Platform
(RCP), Rich Ajax Platform (RAP), Mylyn, Device Developer Software Platform
(DSDP), Eclipse Modeling project and many others. EclipseCon 2009 also features
the OSGi DevCon.

There are 36 organizations participating as conference sponsors this year,
including Gold sponsors BIRT Exchange, Blu Age, IBM, JBoss, Sopera, Sun
Microsystems and Wind River. A number of Eclipse member companies are also
announcing a variety of exciting new initiatives at this year`s conference,
including:

* Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:ACTU), the leader in delivering Rich Internet
Applications Without Limits and founder and co-leader of the BIRT project with
the Eclipse Foundation, announced the creation of the Actuate BIRT Global
Partner Connection. The new program will unite organizations globally using
BIRT, the leading open source information application development environment,
and will bring together a community of technology providers offering high-valued
products, solutions and services around BIRT.
http://www.actuate.com/company/news/press-releases-resources.asp?ArticleId=14338
* Anyware Technologies announces Eclipse Time, a conference which presents many
Eclipse topics (technical, strategic) during sessions delivered by the Eclipse
Foundation, Eclipse experts and industry speakers. Attendees are technical
developers and managers from many fields of activity: embedded, aeronautics,
space, research and communications. Gathering more than one hundred people, the
event focuses on how Eclipse can be an answer to industry topics.
http://www.anyware-tech.com/en/news/events.html
* ARS Computer und Consulting GmbH, an IBM Premier Business Partner since 1994,
announced it has joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Solutions Member at
EclipseCon. The medium-sized software development, integration and training
specialist underpins its commitment to Open Source, especially Eclipse-based
development environments, Rich Clients and Runtime platforms. By joining the
Eclipse Foundation, ARS intends to shift from a consumer role to actively
supporting and contributing to the Eclipse community.
http://www.ars.de/web/firma/ars_ist_neues_mitglied_der_eclipse_foundation.do
* AvantSoft provides excellent training and development services for Eclipse
Plugins, RCP, GEF, EMF, Flex, and J2EE. AvantSoft's Eclipse University offers
customized corporate training and public virtual classes. All EclipseCon 2009
presentations are published using innovative Flex-based platform
gpublication.com. AvantSoft`s MyEventPortal solution enables custom portals with
content, networking, and community support.
* Band XI International, LLC is successfully commercializing the results of
their US Army Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants to build the
Mobile Embedded Component Suite (MECS), an embedded Java foundation using
Eclipse Equinox as a runtime. Band XI is applying the core component frameworks
to address prognostics and diagnostics in condition-based maintenance of vehicle
fleets. The same software provides the basis for various military and industrial
applications.
http://www.bandxi.com/sbir/ec2009pr.html
* BLU AGE Corp., leader in agile model transformation, announces the launch of
their Legacy Model-Driven modernization solution: "BLU AGE Reverse Modeling" and
"BLU AGE Modernization." This groundbreaking solution enables complete reverse
modeling and re-engineering of the most critical Enterprise applications.
http://www.bluage.com/index.php?cID=news
* Bredex will be represented at EclipseCon by Achim Lörke, presenting an
approach to using models to ease the start-up of GUI testing, and Alexandra
Imrie, talking about usability in Eclipse applications. In the exhibition hall
(stand 204), Achim and Alex will demonstrate the upcoming version 3.0 of
GUIdancer, which is a finalist in the Eclipse Awards in the "Best Commercial
Developer Tool" category.
http://www.bredex.de/en/news/pdf/BredexAtEclipseCon_en.pdf
* EclipseSource, the leading provider of Eclipse runtime products and services,
announced Yoxos SecureSource, a subscription-based service that provides secure
access to a repository of certified open source plug-ins. The new service
provides development teams with secured, reliable access to an uncompromised and
consistent code base and is designed to alleviate concerns about source code
authenticity and origin.
* Eteration, a.s., an Eclipse expert and long time committer to the Eclipse
Foundation, announces open education and courseware for web application
development. This initiative is a part of the Web Tools platform project.
Eteration is a provider of services and education for Enterprise Customers in
Europe and Asia.
* froglogic GmbH previewing Squish 4.0, a professional, cross-platform GUI and
regression testing tool that enables testers to create and execute automated GUI
tests for applications based on a variety of different GUI technologies. Squish
stands out from other GUI test tools thanks to its close integration with each
supported GUI technology.
http://www.froglogic.com/pg?id=NewsEvents&category=108
* Genuitec released MyEclipse 7.1 Blue Edition, software that allows companies
to unleash their WebSphere investment with WSAD/RAD project support and
WebSphere 7 compatibility. Also, nWire Software gives Genuitec`s Pulse users a
boost with innovative code exploration. And, Quest Software has joined
Genuitec's Pulse Network with popular Java profiler JProbe.
* Instantiations, a leading provider of Eclipse-based software quality,
security, GUI building and testing solutions, released version 7.0 of
WindowBuilder Pro Java GUI builder for Swing, SWT and GWT. WindowBuilder Pro,
which was nominated for a 2009 Eclipse Award, adds many features to v7.0
including UI Factories, Eclipse Nebula widgets integration, improved parsing,
new customization API for third party extensibility, Swing Data Binding and full
support for GWT-Ext widget set.
http://www.instantiations.com/press/release/090324.html
* itemis, strategic member of the Eclipse Foundation, presents the new
development of TMF-Xtext, which will be released in the next version of Eclipse
in June 2009, and the new project EMF-Index. Both of the projects will be
presented in sessions at EclipseCon on Tuesday, March 24: "Next generation
textual DSLs with Xtext" and "Managing Big Ecore Models with EMF Index."
http://www.itemis.com/itemis-ag/news/2009/language=en/taps=590/20365/eclipsecon-2009
* MicroDoc is planning to release "Java Bindings for openVG" under EPL in Q2 of
2009. OpenVG is a cross-platform API that provides a low-level hardware
acceleration interface for vector graphics libraries. The Java(TM) bindings will
make hardware accelerated 2D vector graphics available for users of eRCP
applications on mobile and embedded devices. MicroDoc is also organizing Eclipse
Embedded Day in Stuttgart, Germany on June 25, 2009.
http://www.microdoc.com/openvg
* Oracle announced Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse Release 11g, a free
component of Oracle Fusion Middleware designed to help developers leverage their
expertise in Eclipse with the comprehensive capabilities of Oracle Fusion
Middleware. Key enhancements in this release include Object-Relational Mapping
(ORM), Spring and Web Service tools to help reduce development complexity for
Java and database developers targeting Oracle platforms.
* Perforce Software, an Eclipse member company, announced the latest release of
its Perforce Plug-in for Eclipse which integrates Eclipse with Perforce, The
Fast Software Configuration Management System. This version introduces the
Synchronize view, enhanced Resolve dialog and a new Integrate dialog, along with
numerous performance enhancements.
* ProSyst, www.prosyst.com, an OSGi pioneer and Active Contributor to Equinox
with 2 Equinox committers, has joined the Eclipse Training Alliance as a premium
member. ProSyst offers various Embedded and Enterprise OSGi training courses as
well as Eclipse eRCP. ProSyst can also provide customized onsite training.
http://www.prosyst.com/news/news/2009/eta.html
* Protecode announced Release 2.0 of its software governance products which make
the managing of licensing obligations of Open Source and other 3rd-party
software much easier: the Enterprise IP Analyzer TM for bulk analysis of
existing code, and the Eclipse plug-in Developer IP Assistant TM, industry`s
first real-time preventive IP management solution.
http://www.protecode.com/press-releases/2009/032309-protecode-release2-IP-management-products.php
* SOPERA is offering a mature open source platform for SOA (Service Oriented
Architecture). With the new and immediately available Release 3.2, the
functional scope of the suite has again been expanded significantly: It now also
includes integration components for Talend Open Studio, the leading Open Source
software for data integration, and Hyperic HQ, the multiple prize-winning Open
Source solution for system management and monitoring.
http://www.sopera.de/en/press/press-release/19032009/
* Soyatec proudly announces a massive source contribution to the e4 project on
Declarative UI: XWT and the availability of a Technical Preview Release of
eclipse4sl (proposed as Eclipse SLDT) on Mac OS X. Soyatec continues to show a
strong commitment to lead and develop several Eclipse projects such as XWT, PMF,
EGF and SLDT and to promote Eclipse in the China market.
http://www.soyatec.com/company/e4-xwt.php
* SpringSource has released SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) 2.0, the most
comprehensive environment for building Spring-powered Java applications. STS 2.0
is an Eclipse-based platform that adds such features as wizards for creating
projects, forms-based configuration editing, and more. Also included in STS 2.0
are tools that help developers deploy modular OSGi applications.
http://www.springsource.com/node/1384
* Weigle Wilczek announced that it is expanding to the United Kingdom with Neil
Bartlett, an internationally recognized OSGi expert and author of the upcoming
book "OSGi in Practice", as a founding partner of the upcoming London office. As
well, itemis, ProSyst and SOPERA have joined the Eclipse Training Alliance. As
an international expert network, the Eclipse Training Alliance pools the
extensive Eclipse knowledge of its associate companies.

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