EclipseCon 2005 Announces Conference Keynotes.OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada -- Tim O'Reilly, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of O'Reilly Media, Urs Hoelzle, VP of Engineering of Google, and Lee Nackman, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Rational Software, Featured The Eclipse Foundation announced that industry experts Tim O'Reilly, chief executive officer of O'Reilly Media and a popular speaker on the impact of the open-source movement, Urs Hoelzle, vice president of engineering for Google, and Lee Nackman, CTO of IBM Rational Software, will be featured as keynote speakers at EclipseCon 2005. In addition, plenary sessions will feature Eclipse community leaders, Mike Milinkovich (executive director of the Eclipse Foundation), John Wiegand and Erich Gamma (Eclipse Platform Project Management Committee leaders), and others discussing the latest developments and future directions of the Eclipse Platform and the Eclipse community. The second annual EclipseCon conference will be held Feb. 28 through March 3, 2005, at the Hyatt Regency, Burlingame, Calif. The conference program will appeal to beginners through advanced users and developers of Eclipse-based applications, as well as architects and other technology decision makers. The program consists of more than 20 tutorials and three days of technical sessions organized into three themes: 1) Understanding Eclipse Projects; 2) Using Eclipse Tools; and 3) Experiences Using Eclipse. Tutorial and session topics will include the Eclipse Platform, Standard Widget Toolkit (java, graphics) Standard Widget Toolkit - (SWT) The Eclipse Foundation's framework for developing graphical user interfaces in Java. SWT is written in explicitly standard Java but uses the Java Native Interface to talk to a platform-native GUI library. (SWT SWT - Standard Widget Toolkit ), Rich Client Platform A Rich Client Platform (RCP) is a piece of software consisting of the following components:
Unix manual page: rcp(1). ), Eclipse Modeling Framework Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) is an Eclipse-based modeling framework and code generation facility for building tools and other applications based on a structured data model. (EMF emf: see electromotive force. (1) (ElectroMagnetic Field) See electromagnetic radiation. (2) (Enhanced MetaFile) See Windows metafile. ), Test and Performance (TnP), Web Tools, Java and 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 ++ IDE, Business Intelligence and Reporting (BIRT), and many more. Additional information about the conference program can be found at www.eclipsecon.org. Registration and hotel information is available at www.eclipsecon.org. Discounts on the conference fee are offered for registration before Jan. 31, 2005. Information for Press and Analyst Organizations Members of the press and analyst community are encouraged to attend EclipseCon 2005. Registration information is available at www.eclipsecon.org. Information for Exhibitors Organizations interested in exhibiting at EclipseCon 2005 are invited to visit www.eclipsecon.org for more information or send an e-mail to eclipsecon2005exhibitor@eclipse.org. A variety of exhibitor and sponsorship opportunities are available on a limited basis. About the Eclipse Foundation The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit member-supported corporation that hosts community-based open source projects. Eclipse creates royalty-free technology and a universal platform for development tools integration, modeling, testing and functionally-rich application construction. Eclipse-based offerings give developers freedom of choice in a multi-language, multi-platform, multi-vendor supported environment. Eclipse delivers a dynamic plug-in-based framework that makes it easier to create and integrate technology, saving time and money. By collaborating and sharing core integration technology, providers can concentrate and focus on areas of expertise and differentiation. The Eclipse Platform is written in the Java language and comes with extensive plug-in construction toolkits and examples. It has already been deployed on a range of development workstations including Linux, QNX, Mac OS X and Windows-based systems. Full details of the Eclipse Foundation and white papers documenting the design of the Eclipse Platform are available at www.eclipse.org. |
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