Mike McCullough reviews briefly on the history of the Eclipse framework and provides details and perspective on new additions to the Web-based IDE, such as Eclipse Plugin Central (EPIC), Callisto, BIRT, and CDT. At the Dr. Dobb's portal, he writes, " The Eclipse framework has now become an integral part not only of the desktop developers' consciousness but that of embedded developers as well. Why has Eclipse taken off in both very different worlds? The primary reason for this is the extensibility and adaptability of the Eclipse framework to a veritable host of applications. Remarkably, this is a far cry from its original IBM roots as a Java-based development environment for WebSphere applications..." Read on.