The Eclipse Community

Mike MilinkovichExecutive DirectorEclipse Foundation

Eclipse Day ParisNovember 5, 2010

Eclipse: a vibrant open source community

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“Eclipse is an open source community focused on developing a development platform of runtimes, frameworks and exemplary tools that make it easy and cost-effective to build and deploy software solutions.”

Eclipse: a vibrant open source community

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“Eclipse is an open source community focused on developing a development platform of runtimes, frameworks and exemplary tools that make it easy and cost-effective to build and deploy software solutions.”

Eclipse: The Leading Developer Community

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Eclipse: a sustainable eco-system

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“Eclipse is a consortium of major software vendors, solution providers, corporations, educational and research institutions and individuals working together to create a sustainable eco-system that enhances, promotes and cultivates the Eclipse open platform with complementary products, services and capabilities.”

Eclipse: a sustainable eco-system

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“Eclipse is a consortium of major software vendors, solution providers, corporations, educational and research institutions and individuals working together to create a sustainable eco-system that enhances, promotes and cultivates the Eclipse open platform with complementary products, services and capabilities.”

• 172 members– 14 Strategic Members– 3 Enterprise Members

• 986 committers, representing 75+ organizations

The Members of Eclipse

Strategic Members

Enterprise Members

Members of Eclipse

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Creating an Open Software Ecosystem

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Eclipse is...

• ...stable• ...mature• ...predictable• ...multi-vendor• ...openly governed• ...the place where people and companies

collaborate to get things done

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Open Collaboration in Action: Web Tools Platform Project

NetWeaver Studio

MyEclipse

CodeGearJBuilder

Zend Studio

JBoss Studio

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7 Years in a Row

June 28 2004 June 28 2005

Eclipse 3.1

WTPBIRTTPTPEMF

VECDT

Eclipse 3.0

TPTPCDT

June 30 2006

Callisto

10 Projects

June 29, 2007

Europa

21 Projects17 million LOC

June 25, 2008

Ganymede

23 Projects18 million LOC

33 Projects24 million LOC

June 24, 2009

Galileo

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33 Projects

June 23 2010

Helios

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Why a release train

• Eclipse has grown; Consumers use many projects not just the Platform

• Inter-dependency between projects– Eclipse project teams are independent BUT the project code is inter-

dependent.

• Alignment of version compatibility

• Remove latency between project releases

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How do we make it work?

• Architecture– Modular & Extensible Architecture vs

Monolithic Release

• Governance– Projects remain independent

• Process– Open source development process– Frequent milestone releases

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Some Important New Directions

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Rational Software | Eclipse

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e4: The Challenge• Tension between Stability and Innovation• We need to innovate to remain a viable platform

Goals of e4 “The mission of the e4 project is to build a next generation platform for

pervasive, component-based applications and tools.”

Make it easier to write and deploy applications across computing environments (RIA, Desktop, Server, Cloud, Embedded)– Support Eclipse for the web

Make it easier to write plugins– Support dynamic languages for plugin development

Allow better control over the look of Eclipse based products– Remove the IDEness of Eclipse based products and applications

More diversity of contributors to the core platform

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People

Independent

Commitment to 3.x Compatibility

• We are committed to protecting your investment in the current 3.x SDK and RAP

• Ongoing development in 3.x for >5 years– Targeted enhancements, bug fixes, new platforms– e4 items that are backwards compatible

• Co-existence as long as needed– Think Apache 1.x and Apache 2

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Backwards Compatibility

e4

CompatibilityLayer

Existing plug-ins

"pure e4" plug-ins

Eclipse Today• Eclipse Platform

delivers extensible frameworks for building applications

• Desktop oriented applications

• Java centric

Eclipse Platform

JDT CDT RCP Apps

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Tomorrow’s Eclipse Tools Platform

Help

Preferences

Logging

Persisting Data

Shared Resources

Search

Eclipse Application Services

Desktop

AJAX

Cloud Services

RIA

Dynamic Languages

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EclipseRT Has SignificantIndustry Adoption

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Java Enterprise Servers

Enterprise Service Bus

2009 Eclipse Runtime

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Equinox

Java

EclipseLink Java

Persistence

Riena Services

Communication Services (ECF)

Rich Ajax (RAP)

EclipseRT Hits Critical Mass asan Enterprise Runtime

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GEMINIfrom eclipseRT

2011 Eclipse Runtime

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Equinox

Java

Virg

o

Virgo ServicesManagementDeploymentProvisioning

AdministrationRemote Repository

Logging

Gemini ServicesWeb ContainerTransactionsDatabase Access (JDBC)Blueprint ServicesJMX IntegrationJNDI IntegrationJPA IntegrationJCA Connector Integration

Thank You!

Questions?

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