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Exadel: Apply Eclipse's Model To Server Apps

By Edward J. Correia

April 1, 2006 — (Page 1 of 2)
Can Eclipse be everything to everyone? A proposal now before the Eclipse Foundation suggests that what makes the pliable environment so attractive for creating customized desktop applications can do the same for server-based ones.

The proposal, brought by development tools and services company Exadel, advocates extending Equinox—an implementation of the OSGi framework used by Eclipse for its plug-ins—to also include enterprise applications. The proposal was to be made public at EclipseCon, the foundation’s annual developer conference, held in Santa Clara March 20-23.

“Because of Eclipse, nobody today is building their own IDE, not even Borland,” said Fima Katz, Exadel’s founder, president and CEO. Exadel develops tools that are a mixture of open-source, commercial and homegrown components strung together using the Exadel Component Integration Infrastructure, which is based on Equinox.

“Eclipse is unique. It’s the only proven, working plug-in component infrastructure,” said Katz. “I think that this will do the same thing for enterprise applications.”

The development model, he said, would remain the same as today’s. “You build in Java code and plug in components in a very loosely coupled way. Eclipse allows me to plug in and remove any component I like.”

As with the desktop version of Eclipse, developers could build their own plug-ins for adding functionality or reuse those built by others. The difference, he said, is that server-based plug-ins would be scalable for use by many people at once, could incorporate transactional capabilities, and be accessed via a Web-based interface or have none at all. “The idea is to strongly promote code reuse among enterprise developers and decrease time to deployment.”

Under the proposal, Katz said Exadel will contribute its complete working solution, which he expects will be called the Eclipse Component Platform. As with all Eclipse-licensed IP, there will be no requirement to return implementations to the community. But the impetus behind the contribution, Katz said, is the hope that some developers will choose to do so. “The idea is to share. If people start using this infrastructure, more components will be available for us to use.”

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