Eclipse Foundation launches Data Tools Platform 1.0.

The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community, committed to the implementation of a universal development platform, recently announced the release of the Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) 1.0, a collection of extensible frameworks and exemplary tools for developing data-centric applications in the Eclipse environment. With DTP 1.0, developers can now easily leverage existing data sources, such as enterprise databases, within the extensible Eclipse Platform. Data-related applications are growing in significance, so this release meets an important development requirement in the software industry. "DTP 1.0 provides a rich set of frameworks that solve real-world issues related to the development of data-centric applications, said Eclipse Foundation. DTP 1.0 claims to simplify development of data-centric applications in heterogeneous environments by offering a range of agile development tools. DTP 1.0 features three major components: model-driven development, connection management and data access framework, and SQL development tools.

According to an Evans Data survey, 53 percent of developers said data access and management tools are extremely important. "Developers see data access and management tools as an integral part of their arsenal in data centric application development," said Evans Data. "Sybase is leveraging DTP and the Eclipse Platform for Sybase's unified development environment, Sybase WorkSpace," said John Graham, chair of the Eclipse Data Tools Platform Project, Sybase. "By incorporating DTP into Sybase WorkSpace, developers benefit by gaining developmental economies of scale, the flexibility that open source offers, and a high level of software quality that comes along with testing by an active community of users.

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