The Eclipse Cloud Developer Tools (ECDT) community is pleased to present EclipseSource with the Q1 2025 Contributor Award in recognition of their contribution to the Eclipse ecosystem with Theia AI and the AI-powered Theia IDE. This award highlights EclipseSource's commitment to delivering powerful, open, and fully customizable AI capabilities for tool builders and developers alike.
Empowering Tool Vendors with Theia AI
Contributed by EclipseSource, Theia AI represents a significant advancement in AI integration for custom tools and IDEs. As an open framework, Theia AI eliminates the barriers for tool vendors to create truly AI-native specialized tools by providing the necessary infrastructure while maintaining complete flexibility and control.
Theia AI enables tool vendors to design domain-specific AI experiences with full control over four critical dimensions:
- User Experience: Customize AI interactions through flexible chat interfaces, inline suggestions, or entirely bespoke UI elements tailored to specialized tool environments.
- AI Agents and Tool Functions: Create domain-specific AI agents with specialized knowledge that can interact natively with tool components and automate domain-specific workflows.
- Language Model Selection: Connect to any AI model of choice—from cloud-based services to self-hosted or local LLMs—allowing vendors to balance capabilities, response time, and costs according to their specific needs.
- Data Integration and Privacy: Maintain complete control over APIs, databases, and services, determining exactly what data is shared with AI services to accommodate unique privacy requirements and compliance needs.
👉 Learn more: Introducing Theia AI: The Open Framework for Building AI-native Custom Tools and IDEs
Transforming Development with the AI-powered Theia IDE
Alongside the Theia AI framework, EclipseSource has delivered the alpha release of the AI-powered Theia IDE, an open-source development environment that puts AI capabilities into developers' hands with full transparency and control. Unlike proprietary solutions, the AI-powered Theia IDE provides developers with:
- Complete LLM freedom to connect to any AI model without vendor lock-in
- Full transparency into project data and context being shared with AI services
- Customizable prompts and agents that can be tailored to specific project needs
- Advanced AI capabilities including the Theia Coder agent for generating and modifying code based on natural language instructions
The IDE also features comprehensive SCANOSS integration for open source compliance, ensuring AI-generated code meets licensing requirements.
👉 Learn more: Introducing the AI-powered Theia IDE: AI-driven coding with full Control
Open Architecture and Governance
Both Theia AI and the AI-powered Theia IDE are built as extensible and adaptable solutions integrated into the Eclipse Theia platform. Fully open-source and guided by the Eclipse Foundation's commercial-friendly governance model, these projects ensure independence from any single vendor while fostering collective innovation through diverse contributions.
This award acknowledges EclipseSource's significant contributions to the Eclipse Cloud DevTools community and the transformative potential of Theia AI to democratize advanced AI capabilities in specialized tool environments. Congratulations to EclipseSource for this recognition and for their commitment to open, transparent, and flexible AI-native solutions within the Eclipse ecosystem.
The Eclipse Cloud DevTools Working Group at the Eclipse Foundation continues to foster a vendor-neutral ecosystem of open-source projects aimed at defining, implementing, and promoting best-in-class web and cloud-based development tools. Current members of the group include prominent organizations such as Ericsson, IBM, Obeo, RedHat, SAP, AMD, Arm, EclipseSource, Renesas, STMicroelectronics, and TypeFox.
For more information about these innovative technologies, visit:
👉 Introducing Theia AI: The Open Framework for Building AI-native Custom Tools and IDEs
👉 Introducing the AI-powered Theia IDE: AI-driven coding with full Control
This Eclipse Cloud DevTools contributor award is sponsored by the Eclipse Cloud DevTools Working Group. The working group provides a vendor-neutral ecosystem of open source projects focused on defining, implementing and promoting best-in-class web and cloud-based development tools. It is hosted at the Eclipse Foundation, current members of the group include AMD, Arm, EclipseSource, Ericsson, Obeo, RedHat, Renesas, STMicroelectronics and TypeFox.
