Venerdì 1 Dicembre, al First Eclipse Italian Meeting presso l’IBM Tivoli Lab, abbiamo presentato eConference nella versione attuale e la futura release che includerà Eclipse Communication Framework. I lettori più accaniti ricorderanno che questa nuova versione di eConference è stata premiata con l’Eclipse Innovation Award 2006. A Roma abbiamo raccolto le congratulazioni dal vivo.
Harald Kornmayer, University of Karlsruhe e coordinatore del progetto europeo g-Eclipse, ha chiesto se siamo interessati a diventari contributor di ECF. “Of course yes”, la risposta.
Jochen Krause, amministratore delegato di INNOOPRACT e membro dell’Eclipse Board of Directors, ha chiesto se siamo interessati ad “ajaxizzare” eConference usando RAP (ne avevo già parlato un po’ di tempo fa). La risposta è stata: “Why not?”
A proposito di Eclipse RCP
Eclipse: a Solid Desktop, Rich-Client, or Embedded Application Framework
— By now, you’ve probably heard about Eclipse as ‘the Open Source Java IDE’ (www.eclipse.org). Today, several companies have looked past the Java IDE plug-ins provided as part of Eclipse, and are creating products that use Eclipse as a tool integration platform, both inside and outside of the Java arena. But what about using royalty-free, Open Source Eclipse technology as a general-purpose application framework for your next desktop, fat client, or embedded application? With the support provided by the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) and the embedded version of the same (eRCP) the idea is certainly not as strange as it first sounds. So we’ll explains why Eclipse is a solid desktop, rich-client, or embedded application framework with the potential to greatly simplify and accelerate development as well as forever change the way developers think about writing Java applications.