Eclipse Continues Momentum in Device and Embedded Software
Development with New Open Source Project Initiatives
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS CONFERENCE (BOOTH 5095), San Jose, Calif. (Apr. 4,
2006) The Eclipse Foundation today announced new project
initiatives and releases for the Device Software Development
Platform (DSDP) and C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) Projects, both
increasingly popular with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)
and vendors of real-time operating systems (RTOSs), software
development tools, and electronic design automation (EDA) tools.
These new initiatives further extend the Eclipse
ecosystem into the embedded and
device software markets.
Eclipse is quickly becoming the universal platform for tools
integration with OEMs and tools vendors, said Mike Milinkovich,
executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. The CDT and DSDP
projects are extending the platform and provide the frameworks
specific for embedded and device developers. In the last year we
have seen tremendous success with vendors and users adopting these
projects as their tools solution.
Laptop Battery These project initiatives include:
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Thinkpad * CDT Project The next release of the CDT Project will focus on
supporting large C/C++ projects as well as integrations with a more
diverse collection of build and debug tools. It will feature a new
indexer architecture that makes it easier to search and
cross-reference C/C++ code and new expanded debugger support to
handle different variants of gdb/MI protocols often found in large
scale C/C++ development organizations. The managed build system
will also be updated to support a larger diversity of tool chains,
offer greater flexibility of build options and improve CDT's
knowledge of the build process, which will eliminate the need for
an external build tool like "make." CDT 3.1 will be released as
part of the June Callisto release train.
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Microsoft * Mobile Tools for the Java Platform (MTJ) Project This new DSDP
project, proposed and led by Nokia, will provide frameworks for
runtime management of devices and emulators, build management and
deployment of J2ME applications, mobile device debugging,
application creation wizards, UI design tools, localization, and
mobile security extensions. The initial release is scheduled for
June and will focus on runtime management, build and deployment of
J2ME applications.
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Laptop Computers * Native Application Builder (NAB) Project Another DSDP project,
proposed and led by Fujitsu, NAB provides a visual GUI builder and
graphics runtime libraries for
device applications running on Linux, Windows CE, ITRON and
other device operating systems. The visual GUI builder generates
C++ source code and uses CDT for the edit-compile-debug cycle
where applicable for the device operating system. It brings to
Eclipse, technology originally developed in the WideStudio
project, a very popular open source project in the Japanese
market. NAB will release in June.
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Laptop Computer * The Device Debugging (DD) Project The project focuses on
building enhanced debug models, APIs and views to provide greater
visibility into and control over device software targets. The DD
project is working to improve the flexibility and customization of
the Eclipse Debug Model Interfaces, and new versions of these
Interfaces, as well as debugger view enhancements, which will be
released in June as part of the Callisto release. These Interfaces
can be used on top of the Eclipse Platform or inside CDT to build
custom debugger implementations for multi-core development and
on-chip debugging support.
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Desktop Computer * The Target Management (TM) Project TM is creating data models
and frameworks to configure and manage remote systems, their
connections and their services. The Target Management architecture
will be based on a software contribution from IBM called Remote
Systems Explorer. The initial release of Target Manager will occur
in September and will include remote target launch capabilities
compatible with CDT.
Notebooks Weve demonstrated significant progress since DSDP was
established as a top-level Eclipse project last year, said Doug
Gaff, leader of the DSDP Project Management Council (PMC) from Wind
River. Community participation and our vision for a common, open
standards based device software development platform are taking
shape more quickly than expected. The first projects will release
this June and commercial products are expected to ship shortly
after.
Lenovo CDT is quickly becoming the industry standard for C and C ++
development in the embedded world, said Doug Schaefer, project
leader for the CDT and senior software developer at QNX Software
Systems. The fact that the CDT is being used by commercial vendors
for applications from tiny embedded microcontrollers to large
multi-core targets validates the functionality of the CDT feature
set for embedded environments.
Hard Drive The CDT project forms the basis of at least 17 commercially
available development tools including those from QNX Software
Systems, Intel, Nokia, Texas Instruments and Siemens. Currently,
more than 25 companies contribute to the CDT project. Since the
creation of the Device Software Development Platform (DSDP) as a
top-level Eclipse project in June 2005, representatives from more
than 20 companies have joined the project and actively contribute
source code. Both projects are actively recruiting new users and
contributors to their technology.
Travelstar Demos of CDT and DSDP projects can be seen in action this week
at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, Calif.
Eclipse-focused sessions include The Eclipse Device Software
Platform Project (April 6, 2006, 8:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. PT) and
Eclipse: Under the Hood (April 6, 2006, 11:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m.
PT).
Gateway 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++ 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.
Laptop Parts The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported
corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects. Full details of
Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation are available at
www.eclipse.org.
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