Eclipse Europa - Driving the Market for Tool Platforms
In a new post on the Application Platform Strategies blog, Joe Niski talks about how Eclipse Europa will drive the matket for tool platforms. "The annual simultaneous release of the core Eclipse platform and major projects, named Europa, is due at month's end. Many of Burton Group's clients with an investment in the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition use Eclipse-based tools for Java EE development, and may be wondering what the Europa release means for them. The short answer: not much right now. The longer answer is that Europa is good for the overall development-tool landscape, and worth some attention," says Niski.
Niski also offers advice for who should be using Eclipse Europa. "The Europa release, however, is not intended for developers of business applications - it's clearly targeted toward tool-builders and ISVs. As the Europa home page states, "We are doing this simultaneous release to support the needs of the ecosystem members who integrate Eclipse frameworks into their own software and products. If you're interested in model driven architecture and domain-specific languages, if your company's use of dynamic scripting languages such as Ruby and PHP is increasing, if you're looking for ways to improve developer collaboration across multiple locations, or if you're evaluating your development tool strategy, you should familiarize yourself with the projects in Eclipse Europa bundle." Read more.