Eclipse IDE – Introduction
Pritesh2014-04-12T21:35:54+05:30
What is Eclipse & Eclipse Foundation?
- Eclipse is a community for individuals and organizations who wish to collaborate on commercially-friendly open source software.
- Its projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and run-times for building, deploying and managing software across the life cycle.
- The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects and helps cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services.
History of Eclipse :
- Industry leaders Borland, IBM, MERANT, QNX Software Systems, Rational Software, Red Hat, SuSE, TogetherSoft and Webgain formed the initial eclipse.org Board of Stewards in November 2001.
- By the end of 2003, this initial consortium had grown to over 80 members.
- On Feb 2, 2004 the Eclipse Board of Stewards announced Eclipse’s reorganization into a not-for-profit corporation. Originally a consortium that formed when IBM released the Eclipse Platform into Open Source
- All technology and source code provided to and developed by this fast-growing community is made available royalty-free via the Eclipse Public License.
Eclipse Releases :
Codename |
Date |
Platform version |
Projects |
N/A |
21 June 2004 |
3.0 |
- |
N/A |
28 June 2005 |
3.1 |
- |
Callisto |
30 June 2006 |
3.2 |
Callisto projects |
Europa |
29 June 2007 |
3.3 |
Europa projects |
Ganymede |
25 June 2008 |
3.4 |
Ganymede projects |
Galileo |
24 June 2009 |
3.5 |
Galileo projects |
Helios |
23 June 2010 |
3.6 |
Helios projects |
Indigo |
22 June 2011 |
3.7 |
Indigo projects |
Juno |
27 June 2012 |
3.8 |
Juno projects |
Kepler |
26 June 2013 |
4.3 |
Kepler projects |
Luna |
25 June 2014 (planned) |
4.4 |
Luna projects |
Mars |
24 June 2015 (planned) |
4.5 |
Mars projects |