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Project #6 in my series of 10 new projects joining the Galileo release train is the Eclipse Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF). Kentarou Fukuda is a committer on ACTF. What does your project do? The Eclipse Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF) project is working to provide an extensible and comprehensive framework for...

EclipseLink is project #5 in my series of projects new to the Galileo release train. For those that might not know, EclipseLink is based on the very popular TopLink product from Oracle. Doug Clarke is the EclipseLink project lead. What does your project do? EclipseLink provides high performance runtime persistence...

As we enter into the final daze of Galileo, I thought it would be appropriate to thank the people who have answered the call to be Friends of Eclipse. Close to 80 people have join the Friends of Eclipse program since we made the call on May 21. Thank you...

Java Workflow Tooling (JWT), is next up in my series on projects new to the Galileo release train. Marc Dutoo is the project co-leader. What does your project do? Java Workflow Tooling brings open business process design and development to the Eclipse platform. Business Process Management (BPM) is at the...

The Galileo release is next Wednesday. We want to encourage everyone to help promote the Galileo release. Lots of people are already writing blogs about Galileo and we have over 500 people on the Galileo Birds Nest to promote Galileo on twitter. However, next Wednesday we want everyone on twitter...

Tools for mobile Linux (TmL) is project #3 in my series of projects new to the Galileo release train. Eric Cloninger is the TmL project lead. What does your project do? The Tools for mobile Linux (TmL) project creates tools and frameworks for mobile application development. Who are your typical...

Next up in my series of projects new to the release train is PDT. PDT isn’t really a new project but this is the first time it has joined the release train. They have also created a new PHP package that is currently the second most popular RC4 package on...

This year we have 10 new projects joining the Galileo release train. I thought it might be interesting to highlight some of these new projects in a quick Q&A with the project leaders. The first project is XText, a project in the Eclipse Modeling project. Sven Efftinge is the project...

A key finding in the recent Eclipse Community Survey was the significant increase of developers using Eclipse in Linux desktops; in participate Ubuntu and Debian. However, the irony of this good news story is that the version of Eclipse on the Debian and Ubuntu distro is Eclipse 3.2, almost 3...

Eclipse RCP continues to be used for some very interesting applications. Yesterday I came across two organizations that were building electronic medical record (EMR) systems on top of RCP. 1) Elexis is an open source project in Switzerland that provides An Eclipse RCP program for all aspects of a medical...