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Microsoft partners up for Eclipse interoperability


By David Worthington
October 28, 2009 — 
At Eclipse Summit Europe, Microsoft announced several initiatives that broaden the interoperability of its technologies on the Eclipse framework.

Microsoft is working with partners to modernize the Eclipse IDE for Windows 7, and it is developing Eclipse-based Windows Azure Tools for PHP and a Windows Azure Software Developer Kit (SDK) for Java developers, as well as tools for Silverlight.

Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop Technologies and creator of the open-source Eclipse Mylyn project, said that his company was working to optimize the IDE for Windows 7. Eclipse developers will be able to view application progress through the Windows taskbar, and use jump lists to access application functionality, he said.

That work will happen on top of the Standard Widget Toolkit, which Eclipse developers use to customize the IDE for native operating systems, Kersten said.

As previously announced, Microsoft is creating Eclipse plug-ins for PHP developers. Those will be made available in the first quarter of 2010 under the Open Source Initiative-approved Microsoft Public License.

The tooling targets Windows Azure, but it can also be used to port Azure applications back to an organization's data centers, said Vijay Rajagopalan, principal architect for Microsoft's Interoperability team.

Portability could be limited by dependencies on Windows Azure, such as SQL Azure for storage, he acknowledged. The degree to which applications have dependencies is up to the developer.

"If you have standard HTML and PHP content, it will translate to any platform," said Rajagopalan. Microsoft also participates in the Zend Simple API project to create common libraries for PHP.

Microsoft has also extracted out a set of common APIs from creating its Azure PHP tools for Eclipse, and has released them as a set of classes for Java developers, said Rajagopalan. The SDK allows Java developers to incorporate Azure storage services into their applications.

Microsoft worked in collaboration with Soyatec. The SDK is available under the Apache 2.0 license.

Lastly, Microsoft released an updated edition of Eclipse tools for Silverlight, with support for the Silverlight 2.0 runtime. Microsoft also partnered with Soyatec in this effort.

Support for Silverlight 3.0, the most current version of the runtime, will not arrive until spring of 2010, Rajagopalan said. "It is difficult to be in sync with the Microsoft runtime, because Microsoft coordinates development between Visual Studio and Silverlight."

Silverlight 3.0 tooling support will arrive in Visual Studio 2010 when the IDE ships in the first half of 2010, he said.


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