As we work on projects we’re frequently upgrading our tools. That basic soldering iron gives way to one with temperature control. The introductory 3D printer yields to one faster and more capable. One ...

The nascent Eclipse Kapua project got a big boost this week from its chief sponsors, open source solutions provider Red Hat and M2M/IoT platform provider Eurotech. The two companies announced their ...

Open source projects will be hosted by Google Code, where they can gain exposure without having to become official Eclipse projects The Eclipse Foundation has launched Eclipse Labs, a portal hosted by ...

Oracle has proposed a project to the Eclipse open-source foundation to ease creation of high-end Java applications. The company said it intends to spearhead the Eclipse project and make contributions ...

Although the Eclipse Foundations move to release code from 10 of its top-level open-source projects simultaneously is no small feat, the process itself was rather smooth, said project leaders on many ...

In August, when Google purchased Instantiations along with several of their excellent development tools, I wrote: This may be just wishful thinking but it would be terrific if Google would donate ...

The Eclipse Foundation has given a thumbs up to two new projects under the Eclipse Runtime (RT) project. Eclipse Virgo and Eclipse Gemini are both about modularization, though they come at it from ...

In my experience as a software professional, I often have the need to analyse an existing body of code in order to understand it. Everyone tries his or her best to create adequate documentation but it ...

The Eclipse Foundation has released Eclipse Theia 1.0, which it is promoting as "a true open source alternative" to Microsoft's lightweight Visual Studio Code (VS Code) source code editor. An ...

Eclipse Foundation hopes to give the popular Microsoft-developed Visual Studio Code source code editor some competition with the 1.0 release of its Theia development platform. Eclipse Theia is a ...

Looking to promote usage of Enterprise Java Beans for database access, Oracle proposes open-source tool based on its TopLink software. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...