The Eclipse Platform is an open extensible IDE for anything and yet nothing in particular. The Eclipse Platform provides building blocks and a foundation for constructing and running integrated software-development tools. The Eclipse Platform allows tool builders to independently develop tools that integrate with other people's tools so seamlessly you can't tell where one tool ends and another starts.

Visual Studio 2005 Team System enables partners and customers to extend Team System with their own internal or commercial tools and process frameworks. As the platform on which Team System is built, Team Foundation Core Services enable third parties to extend Team System and to share reporting, eventing, groups and permissions, linking, administration and navigation capabilities.

Yes! It works perfectly on Windows and Mac OSX. However, Linux is not fully supported yet, although some customers have successfully ported it to Linux with a minimum of changes. Please check the Linux section of the Framework Forums. You bet! I've got special code in the Framework to make sure that data is written and read to/from the correct shared location so that it works for any users logged onto the Vista PC.

A platform is the author's venue for reaching his or her target market. In selecting book projects, we look at the author's experience with the topic, credentials, and role within the target market. While it is not essential that authors have strong ties to their markets, it certainly increases the chances for success.

A platform is an issue of special interest to a contestant that she advocates during her year of service. Each year, MAO contestants across the country log more than 500,000 community service hours towards their platforms. Platform topics range widely, and the Miss Iowa Organization encourages its participants to choose a platform they are eager to serve.

DualVision is currently supported on Windows 98 and NT. As of January 2001, DualVision will be supported on Windows 2000. There is no Macintosh support.

NetMinistry allows designers and developers to create websites using its built-in technology. Websites are built and hosting on NetMinistry servers and software, allowing the system to be a more foundational "servant" technology to the folks doing the creative work. It substitutes other web-building software like Dreamweaver or Frontpage with a live, easy-to-use configuration environment.

Nobody knows. But everyone seems to have heard it at one time... If you listen to the very very end of "Eclipse," and turn your volume up very very high, you will very very faintly hear some music. This has been pointed out several times, but nobody has ever been able to pinpoint exactly what the song is. Some think it's a Beatles song, others, classical music. And why is it there? A studio trick? Or just sound bleeding through from another studio? Truth is, we'll probably never know.

The Eclipse SDK (software developer kit) is the consolidation of the components produced by the three Eclipse Project subprojects (Platform, JDT - Java development tools, and PDE - Plug-in development environment) into a single download. Together these pieces provide a feature-rich development environment that allows the developer to efficiently create tools that integrate seamlessly into the Eclipse Platform.

Not at present. tkeclipse provides some of the features of an IDE, but a separate programming editor is recommended; for instance, emacs.

You can find commercial and open source plugins available at http://www.eclipse.org/community/plugins.html.

Download the latest release version of the SDK from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/. Be sure to have at least JDK/JRE 1.4 on your desktop. If you want...

See the Eclipse Technical articles at the Eclipse site. Also, take a look at the source. See the Eclipse downloads page.

Anytime there are three bodies (the sun, the moon, or planet) lined up so that one blocks the light from another, we call that an eclipse. During a solar eclipse, our moon moves between us (on Earth) and the sun and blocks the sunlight. During a lunar eclipse, Earth blocks the sun's light that normally lights up the moon. Since we are standing on Earth, what we see is that the moon gets dark. Other kinds of eclipses happen too.

If you want to work with the current version of the eclipse code, you will need to connect to the Eclipse Project CVS repository. To connect to the Eclipse Project CVS repository, open the CVS repositories view (Perspective->Show View->Other...->CVS->CVS Repositories) and create a new CVS repository location (right click->New->CVS Repository Location. Enter the following information into the "Add CVS Repository" dialog.

lt;plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <outputEncoding>UTF-8</outputEncoding> </configuration> </plugin> MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx512m -Xms512m -Dfile.encoding=ISO-8859-1" (mx/ms not mandatory for m2 but for m1). LANG=en_US.ISO8859-15

The entire eclipse will be about two and a half hours from the beginning to the end of the partial phases (at Wuwei, the final end of the post-totality partial eclipse will be virtually at sunset). Totality, when all the excitement happens, will be 1 minute 45 seconds at our chosen site. This is not long, and it will seem shorter in all the excitement. [top]

No. The AspectJ tools download is completely self-contained and does not require that you work in Eclipse. For information on IDE support, see Q: How well does AspectJ integrate with existing Java development tools?.

The developers make sure that the software builds and works correctly on the platforms available to them; this does not necessarily mean that your platform is one of them. In addition, the Apache HTTP server project is primarily source oriented, meaning that distributing valid and buildable source code is the purpose of a release, not making sure that there is a binary package for all of the supported platforms.

Most developers work on Linux. However it is also possible to compile Inkscape on Windows; this page provides detailed instructions for this as well as for cross-compiling Windows binaries on Linux.

Architecture port: this means porting the code generator used by the JIT to produce native code for a new CPU. Operating system port: this includes porting Mono's IO-Layer which copes with threading, file I/O and networking as well as porting the garbage collector and exception handling code, which tends to be operating system specific. Most Unix variants behave very similarly, so porting to a new Unix is relatively simple.

The glider and pilot are mounted on a moveable platform such as the bed of a pickup or of a trailer in flying position. A payout winch is also on the platform, and the line from it is attached to the glider. The platform is driven or towed into the wind, and when the glider is at flying speed it is released from the platform already flying. The launch is very much like an assisted windy cliff launch.

Complete Web services support. The J2EE platform provides a framework for developing and deploying web services on the Java platform. The Java API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC) enables Java technology developers to develop SOAP based interoperable and portable web services. Developers use the standard JAX-RPC programming model to develop SOAP based web service clients and endpoints. A web service endpoint is described using a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) document.

The primary technologies in the J2EE platform are: Java API for XML-Based RPC (JAX-RPC), JavaServer Pages, Java Servlets, Enterprise JavaBeans components, J2EE Connector Architecture, J2EE Management Model, J2EE Deployment API, Java Management Extensions (JMX), J2EE Authorization Contract for Containers, Java API for XML Registries (JAXR), Java Message Service (JMS), Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI), Java Transaction API (JTA), CORBA, and JDBC data access API. What's new in the J2EE 1.

For more information about the J2EE platform and how to get the specification, see http://java.sun.com/j2ee/. The most effective way to learn about the J2EE platform and what's new in the J2EE 1.4 platform is to get hands on experience with the APIs by using the J2EE 1.4 SDK. The J2EE 1.4 SDK provides a J2EE 1.4 compatible application server as the foundation to develop and deploy Web services enabled, multi-tier enterprise applications. You can download the J2EE 1.4 SDK from http://java.sun.

ISVs need the J2EE platform because it gives them a blueprint for providing a complete enterprise computing solution on the Java platform.

Yes. The J2EE Compatibility Test Suite (CTS) is available for the J2EE platform. The J2EE CTS contains over 5,000 tests for J2EE 1.4 and will contain more for later versions. This test suite tests compatibility by performing specific application functions and checking results. For example, to test the JDBC call to insert a row in a database, an EJB component makes a call to insert a row and then a call is made to check that the row was inserted.