LOGIN | REGISTER NOW | SUBSCRIBE
 
Print

Third Parties Celebrate Eclipse Independence


Claim greater input will help solve issues such as plug-in compatibility, profits

By Jennifer deJong
Email
February 15, 2004 —  (Page 1 of 2)
As the newly named Eclipse Foundation establishes itself as an entity separate from IBM Corp., vendors of commercial products based on the open-source framework are applauding the move, saying that it will promote Eclipse adoption and give them more say as to how it evolves.

"As a small vendor, you can cast your vote, and your voice is as powerful as [that of] a large vendor," said Dave Martin, vice president of product management at MKS Inc., which sells an Eclipse version of its software configuration tool, MKS Integrity.

"Even though IBM was listening to the needs of others within the Eclipse ecosystem, of course it had the most influence," added Jochen Krause, founder and president of Innoopract, the Karlsruhe, Germany-based company that sells the Eclipse plug-in W4T, a tool for developing Web interfaces for Java server applications.

One issue in which vendors of Eclipse-based commercial products have a vested interest is how best to deal with the potential for conflict among plug-ins from different vendors.

"I have no way to validate that my [Eclipse] plug-in will work with all the other plug-ins," said Fima Katz, president and founder of Exadel Inc., which sells the Eclipse plug-in Struts Studio, a building tool for the Jakarta Struts Framework.

It's easy to validate that your plug-in works with the Eclipse framework itself, he noted. "But as a small vendor, how many people will come to me to validate [that their plug-in works with mine]?"

With Eclipse still in its infancy, the problem is manageable, and the onus is on individual vendors to resolve possible conflicts, said Sandy Smith, vice president of product management and marketing at SlickEdit Inc., which sells SlickEdit Plug-In, a code editor for WebSphere Studio and Eclipse, and SlickEdit Studio, an IDE based on Eclipse.

The Eclipse Foundation estimates that there are more than 175 commercial software products based on Eclipse available today. But that does not mean that each plug-in must be tested against every plug-in out there, noted Smith. "You need to test your plug-in against other plug-ins your product will touch," she said.



Pages 1 2 


Share this link: http://sdt.bz/27694
 
Most Read  Latest News  Resources
SAP unveils SAP HANA platform innovations for Big Data and spatial processing
Features include smart data access and expanded cloud deployment options
Alteryx raises $12 million to put Big Data analytics in the hands of all business analysts
Quest founder's firm, Toba Capital, selects Alteryx as its first analytics investment
Google I/O kicks off
Developers get new APIs and tools, and the Go language hits version 1.1
Jelastic launches new version of its Java and PHP hosting platform
Jelastic today announced the launch of a new version of its ultra-scalable cloud hosting platform
Digg!  Digg
Reddit  Reddit
Slashdot  Slashdot
Share on facebook  Facebook
Share on Twitter  Twitter


close
NEXT ARTICLE
Eclipse release train for Kepler arrives June 26
New version of Eclipse includes Stardust for business process management, and Orion 3.0 for Web-based development Read More...
 
 
 




News on Monday  more>>
Android Developer News  more>>
SharePoint Tech Report  more>>
Big Data TechReport  more>>

   
 
 

 


Download Current Issue
MAY 2013 PDF ISSUE

Need Back Issues?
DOWNLOAD HERE

Want to subscribe?