Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open IDE (Integrated Development Environment) and they’ve just announced that the latest and largest version, named Europa, has gone Gold.
This release consists of over 17 million lines of code and received contributions from over 310 open source developers in 19 countries.
Some key improvements to this release are:
- Ease of development and deployment of server apps
- Java Development Toolkit
- Web Tools Project
Although it’s a pipsqueak of an IDE when compared to Visual Studio, Europa is a significant effort and has the support of some big players in software development and of course in open source. This includes Adobe, Red Hat, Wind River, QNX, IBM to name a few.
If you’re interested in the project or in getting the bits for yourself, here you go:
- Download the bits (Europa project available by Friday)
- Europa Press Release
- Screenshots
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