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Free Trade with Eclipse: An Introduction to the JFire Open-Source ERP Framework

Imagine several companies want to trade arbitrary products in a decentralised network, and you have to write the software. Not an easy task, if specialised GUI for different sectors must be integrated into one application. If you plan to use the Eclipse Rich Client Platform, it's worth having a look at the ERP framework JFire, says Marco Schulze.

Open Source and Collaboration -- A Combo That Works: QA with Isabelle Dumont, Taki Katshiba & Arvind Khurana of Collabnet

Collabnet is a collaboration company that makes open source software a real collaborative effort and wonderful at that. The Collabnet platform supports globally distributed teams in a centralised, cost-effective manner, which can yield 20-30 per cent annual savings through reduced development infrastructure costs, increased productivity, improved project visibility and shared access to software assets. More popular for its Subversion enterprise software, Collabnet is also present in the Eclipse arena. On the sidelines of JAX India 2007, SDA caught up with Isabella Dumont, Senior Director for Product Marketing at Collabnet; Taki Katshiba, Vice President of Asia Pacific; and Arvind Khurana, Country Sales Manager at Collabnet India, to know more about its business.

Eclipse Power In IBM Workplace/Domino

Eclipse is a robust functional platform that IBM Workplace/Domino developers can put to full use in their current and future projects. In this article, we focus on the benefits of Eclipse as a client foundation that has a cross platform, rich UI widget set that is based on native widgets, a rich UI framework, pre-defined dialog basis: Wizards, Preferences, Properties, and other UI: Perspectives, Views, Editors, Workbench (as a base), ActiveX support in SWT on Win32 (platform integration), and a good Help system. Eclipse as a client foundation is an extensible platform that features a plug-in extensibility model, shared programming model with tools development, education that is already developed for tools offerings, core services, extension points, core frameworks, production quality platform with two major releases in the market, and an Open Source code base...

Power Modeling for Agile Developers

Apollo for Eclipse, a visual modeling tool from the Gentleware stable, promises to ease the life of an agile developer by combining the advantages of visual modeling using UML (Unified Modeling Language) with programming in Java. Based on open source technology, developed by the Eclipse Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) project, Apollo for Eclipse focuses on round tripping between Java and UML class diagrams, which is the core capability required by agile developers...

100% Information Adoption Drives Breakthrough Corporate Performance

With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports that join different views of the enterprise in one place. Termed Enterprise Reporting, this process involves querying data sources with different logical models to produce a human readable report. One example would be to query the Human Resources databases...

Elipse for Converged Voice and Information Solutions

Over the last few years, companies have been investing more and more in voice applications. From talking web sites and blogs, to simple IVR applications, to complex voice and web applications, IT departments are spending valuable time, money and resources to implement the most efficient best-in-class voice applications for their businesses. With the Eclipse workbench, developers have a perfect all-in-one type environment for designing, implementing, deploying and testing their voice and web applications.

What Draws Large ISVs to Eclipse?

It only took two years for Eclipse to take the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) world by storm. Eclipse is being used by two-thirds of Java shops today and part of the adoption growth has largely been due to large Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) dropping their own IDEs in favor of Eclipse...

SlickEdit Plug-in for Eclipse

The SlickEdit Plug-in for Eclipse allows developers to use the popular SlickEdit code editor as the default editor within Eclipse or any Eclipse based IDE. Providing the capability to develop in over 40 programming languages�including C/C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML, SQL, and XML�the plug-in allows even the most accomplished power programmers to be more productive by enabling them to write code faster and more accurately, making it an essential plug-in for developers. SlickEdit is an add-in provider member of the Eclipse Foundation.

Better Development: Comparison Test for Current SWT GUI Builders

With the widespread popularity of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform, the demand for visual GUI designers has also increased�manual creation of GUIs is simply not productive enough. Meanwhile, some products finding favor with developers have appeared on the market. Current GUI editors for SWT GUIs will be examined and compared in this article, with an analysis of their potential to run in the long haul.It places special emphasis on the Eclipse Visual Editor and SWT GUI Builder, exploring their pros and cons and comparing them on aspects of functionality, user-friendliness, and refinement. The article also briefly touches upon the Jigloo SWT GUI Builder plug-in and its advantages and disadvantages...

Eclipse For the Automobile Industry

Harman Becker automotive system is a leading manufacturer of high-end infotainment systems for the international automobile industry. Since the acquisition by Harman International in the early �90s Harman Becker has earned a reputation for far-reaching technical innovations. The introduction of Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST) was a coup for Harman Becker. The success of MOST resulted in it becoming a de-facto industry standard for the distribution of entertainment content within the automobile. After ten years, Harman Becker is considering repeating this success story, but with a difference. This time Eclipse will play an essential role...