Runtime Technology at Eclipse

Jochen Krause, Innoopract Informationssysteme GmbH

Eclipse has evolved from a tooling platform to a general purpose, Equinox OSGi-based application platform running in a wide variety of software and hardware contexts. A significant set of established and new Eclipse projects are providing services for application developers - AJAX, bundles, communication, ...., O/R, persistence, SOA and more. This talk surveys the runtime technology available today and introduces the Eclipse RT top-level project as a new home for runtime technology at Eclipse.org. We present and discuss the goals of providing high quality runtime components based on the Equinox framework and OSGi in the context of the Eclipse RT project and the larger Equinox community.

 

Jochen Krause is Co-Lead of the Eclipse RT project, RAP project lead and Member of the Eclipse Board.