The Eclipse community is constantly working on high level projects that extend Eclipse's functionality. This technical briefing takes a deep dive into some of the most important and feature rich projects under development by the Eclipse community. If you thought Eclipse was merely a Java™ development environment, then this technical briefing will expand your definition.

From multilanguage support to plug-in development, Eclipse has evolved into a universal platform for anything and everything related to software development and beyond. You now have the ability to do things like geographically distributed collaboration, rich client development, and application runtime analysis within Eclipse. Learn more about Eclipse and Eclipse-based products from IBM.

• Introduction to the Eclipse community and an overview of Eclipse projects
• Multilanguage support in Eclipse
• Demonstrations that illustrate the functionality of selected Eclipse projects
• Tools and products reviewed during this briefing include:
  • Eclipse
  • C and C++ development tools
  • Test and performance tools platform
  • Web tools platform including Web services and Java EE applications
  • Eclipse communication framework
  • Plug-in development environment
  • Rich client platform
  • Next steps in learning more about Eclipse and Eclipse-based products from IBM