Eclipse Foundation
| Formation | 2004-02-02[1] |
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| Type | 501(c)(6) organization |
| Headquarters | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
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Executive Director
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Mike Milinkovich |
| Website | Eclipse.org |
The Eclipse Foundation is a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit, member supported corporation that acts as the steward of Eclipse, an open source community working to build a development platform consisting of the frameworks, tools and run-times needed for "building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle." The most well-known of the Eclipse projects is the Eclipse platform, a multi-language software development environment and IDE.[2]
The Eclipse Foundation's stated aim is to cultivate both the community and "an ecosystem of complementary products and services."[2] It is considered a "third generation"[3] open-source organisation.
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History[edit]
In 2003–2004 the Eclipse Consortium, a consortium of software industry vendors,[1] founded The Eclipse Foundation, a not-for-profit legal entity to lead and develop Eclipse.
Top Level Projects[edit]
The project structure at the Eclipse Foundation is a hierarchical structure. Each project has a parent project and may have sub projects. The upper most projects, which do not have a parent project, are called top level projects.[4]
| Name | Longer Name | Short Description |
|---|---|---|
| BIRT | Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools | |
| Che | "Cloud" (Web)-based IDE | |
| Datatools | Data Tools Platform | |
| Eclipse | Eclipse Project | The project around the main Eclipse IDE |
| Eclipse Modeling Project | ||
| EE4J | Eclipse Enterprise for Java | Java Platform, Enterprise Edition |
| IoT | Internet of Things | A parent for projects targeting the Internet of Things or Machine-to-machine area.[5] |
| Mylyn | Integration with developer task management | |
| RT | Runtimes | |
| SOA | SOA Platform Project | |
| Technology | Technology Project | |
| Tools | Tools Project | |
| WTP | Web Tools Platform Project |
Besides, in August 2017 the Ceylon language project was donated to the eclipse foundation. Transfer of the code is ongoing.
Strategic members[edit]
Each strategic member has a representative on the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors allowing them direct influence over the strategic direction of Eclipse. Strategic members also have a seat on the various Eclipse Councils providing input and influence over the themes and priorities of the Eclipse Ecosystem.[6]
Other members[edit]
There are approximately 250 members[7] of the Eclipse Foundation representing most regions of the world, and many industries and technology segments.
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Eclipse Forms Independent Organization". Press Release. Retrieved 2004-02-04.
- ^ a b "About the Eclipse Foundation". The Eclipse Foundation. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
- ^ François Letellier (2008), Open Source Software: the Role of Nonprofits in Federating Business and Innovation Ecosystems[permanent dead link], AFME 2008.
- ^ "Eclipse Development Process". http://eclipse.org. 1 August 2011. Retrieved 3 September 2014. External link in
|website=(help) - ^ "IoT". http://projects.eclipse.org. Retrieved 3 September 2014. External link in
|website=(help) - ^ "Strategic Members". Web Listing. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
- ^ "All Eclipse Foundation Members". Web Listing. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
Further reading[edit]
- Kerner, Sean Michael (2006-06-26). "Eclipse's 'Callisto' Onslaught". internetnews.com.
- Kerner, Sean Michael (2006-09-05). "Eclipse Adoption on The Rise". internetnews.com.
- Kerner, Sean Michael (2006-11-08). "Five Years On: The Future of Eclipse". internetnews.com.
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