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RIA company curls up with Eclipse

By Jeff Feinman

August 6, 2008 —

Curl has made a set of Eclipse plug-ins available for developing programs with Curl’s rich Internet application (RIA) technology.

Curl Development tools for Eclipse, released yesterday, includes a language-sensitive editor and is integrated with the Eclipse debugger and the Eclipse workspace for Curl projects. It is available for the Eclipse 3.3 and 3.4 SDKs, Linux and Windows, Curl said.

Earlier in the year, Curl joined the Eclipse Foundation and made plans to base the “next phase” of its RIA products on the Eclipse framework. Company executives said the release of Curl Development tools for Eclipse follows through on those plans.

“While consumers typically require faster applications, the needs of the enterprise are much greater,” said Bert Halstead, Curl’s vice president and chief architect. “This has put intense pressure on corporate developers to build more robust applications even more efficiently to meet this demand. We are addressing the needs of those developers and the enterprises they serve by basing the next phase of our tools on Eclipse.”

Halstead said the best way for Curl to offer a quality developer platform was to provide development tools in the Eclipse framework. He predicted the move would make it easier for developers already familiar with Eclipse to adopt Curl, while offering Curl developers improved integration with components such as XML editors.

Curl’s original IDE will coexist with the Eclipse version for now, but it will eventually be retired.

Curl is not the first RIA company to move to the Eclipse platform. In 2005, IBM and Laszlo Systems partnered to link the OpenLaszlo RIA development system to Eclipse. Laszlo created a plug-in to hook OpenLaszlo to Eclipse.

The Eclipse Foundation also maintains the Rich AJAX Platform (RAP), which lets developers build AJAX-enabled Web applications using the Eclipse development model; plug-ins with the Eclipse workbench extension points; and a widget toolkit with an API. RAP 1.0 was released in October, and it is based on the OSGi standard and the Eclipse Rich Client Platform, a framework for APIs.

When asked how Curl’s offering on Eclipse differs from RAP, Halstead said the Curl Development tools for Eclipse are for building Curl applications only.

“Being able to develop both Curl and AJAX applications within the Eclipse framework will smooth the workflow for developers who need to do both kinds of work, but the tools that Curl has released are tools for building Curl applications, not for building AJAX applications,” he said.

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