Eclipse Foundation Announces Initiatives for Ajax Applications and Dynamic Languages.SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- The Eclipse Foundation today announced three new project milestones that extend the Eclipse platform for Ajax applications and dynamic languages. The three projects include the Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform The Rich AJAX Platform (RAP) Project is an open-source software project under the Eclipse Technology Project which aims to enable software developers to build AJAX-enabled rich Internet applications by using the Eclipse (software) development model, plugins and a Java (RAP), the Eclipse Ajax Toolkit Framework (ATF ATF Molecular virology Activating transcription factor A cellular protein that stimulates transcription of adenovirus E4 transcription unit, which acts early in infection at any of several 'enhancer' binding sites ) and the Eclipse Dynamic Language Toolkit (DLTK DLTK Dynamic Languages Toolkit ). These projects provide innovative new Eclipse-based technology to be utilized by Ajax developers and developers using dynamic languages such as Python, Ruby and Tcl. The Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) project provides a runtime enabling organizations to build rich Ajax-enabled Internet applications. RAP extends the existing Eclipse Rich Client Platform A Rich Client Platform (RCP) is a piece of software consisting of the following components:
Unix manual page: rcp(1). ) by adding a series of frameworks that allow developers to quickly create Ajax applications. Based on Eclipse RCP technologies, this new initiative will allow organizations to use a common component model and platform to build both rich desktop applications and rich browser based applications. The first milestone release of RAP is now available. More information can be found at www.eclipse.org/rap. "RAP allows us to build the next generation of our products with full Ajax capabilities, the productivity we are used to from rich client development, and without the need to write complex JavaScript," explains Ludwig Neer, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of CAS AG, a leading German CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. vendor. "By using Eclipse as a platform we get a consistent development model that is all Java and can be used for Rich Clients, Ajax Clients and even for server side implementations." The Eclipse Ajax Toolkit Framework (ATF) project provides the tools and frameworks for building an Ajax IDE. ATF makes it easy for developers to build, debug and deploy their Ajax applications. It includes a variety of components, including a Javascript debugger that supports debugging of local and network files and tools for inspecting running Ajax applications. Eclipse ATF supports a number of the more popular Ajax frameworks including Dojo do·jo n. pl. do·jos A school for training in Japanese arts of self-defense, such as judo and karate. [Japanese d , Rico and Zimbra. The latest available download of ATF now provides support for Mac OSX See Mac OS X. , in addition to existing Windows and Linux support. More information can be found at www.eclipse.org/atf. "Nexaweb has incorporated ATF into our Nexaweb Studio, a visual drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. environment for developing enterprise Ajax applications," explains Coach Wei, CTO of Nexaweb Technologies Inc. "This is incredibly innovative technology that allows us to create innovative commercial products and demonstrates that Eclipse is well positioned to be the standard for Ajax IDEs." The Eclipse Dynamic Language Toolkit project (DLTK) extends the Eclipse platform to other dynamic computer languages, like Python, Ruby and Tcl. DLTK provides the frameworks and components, such as debugging and interactive console, code indexing and refactoring, to simplify the task of adding support for dynamically typed languages to Eclipse. The initial release of DLTK is now available and provides support for Tcl. Future releases will have support for Ruby and Python. More information can be found at www.eclipse.org/dltk. "Eclipse is an important part of the Cisco development tool strategy and we have plans to expand its use as a development tool," said Ed Warnike, a software engineer at Cisco. "We have and will continue to contribute to the DLTK project, specifically to the Tcl, in support of several thousand engineers at Cisco and elsewhere who are using this technology." All three of these projects will be featured at the EclipseCon conference, March 5-8 in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. . EclipseCon features tutorials and technical sessions about the various Eclipse projects. In addition, the OSGi Developer Conference is being co-located at EclipseCon. About the Eclipse Foundation Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software. Eclipse provides extensible tools and frameworks that span the software development lifecycle, including support for modeling, language development environments for Java, C/C C/C Center to Center C/C Combustion Chamber C/C Command/Control C/C Crew Chief C/C cabin cruiser (US DoD) C/C chief complaint (medical) C/C Channel-to-Channel C/C Communication and Collaboration ++ and others, testing and performance, business intelligence, rich client applications and embedded development. A large, vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities and research institutions and individuals extend, complement and support the Eclipse Platform. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects. 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