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council members
the open community driving the eclipse platform
Eclipse council structure

As defined by the Eclipse Development Process, the open source projects are Eclipse are guided and co-ordinated by three Councils:

Requirements: The Requirements Council is responsible for capturing and organizing requirements for all of the projects in the Eclipse community. The Requirements Council reviews and categorizes all of these incoming requirements - from all residents of the Ecosystem - and proposes a coherent set of Themes and Priorities that will drive the Roadmap.

Planning: The Planning Council is responsible for establishing a coordinated Platform Release Plan that supports the Roadmap, and balances the many competing requirements. The Platform Release Plan describes the themes and priorities that focus these Releases, and orchestrates the dependencies among Project Plans.

Architecture: The Architecture Council is responsible for development, articulation and maintenance of the Eclipse Platform Architecture. The Architecture Council produces an Architecture Plan that describes the architecture changes required to achieve these themes and priorities, or required to maintain long-term architectural viability.

Eclipse council documents
As described in the previous section, the Eclipse Development Process calls for the Eclipse Councils to create the Eclipse Roadmap documentation for approval by the Board of Directors. The Eclipse Roadmap V1.0 has now been released. You are invited to discuss the documents on the Eclipse Foundation newsgroup on news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.foundation .

Requirements council
Paul Clenahan Actuate Strategic Developer
Bjorn Freeman-Benson Eclipse Foundation appointed by Eclipse Foundation
Anurag Gupta Intel Strategic Developer
Boris Kapitanski Serena Software, Inc. Strategic Consumer
John Kellerman IBM Corporation Strategic Developer
Martin Klauss Wind River Strategic Developer
Chris Kolde Borland Strategic Developer
Georg Lenz SAP AG Strategic Consumer
Philip Ma Hewlett-Packard Company Strategic Consumer
Mike Milinkovich* Eclipse Foundation appointed by Eclipse Foundation (chair)
Mike Norman Scapa Technology Strategic Developer
Shane Pearson BEA Strategic Developer
Karl Reti Sybase Strategic Developer
James Saliba Computer Associates Strategic Developer
Melissa Traynor MontaVista Software Strategic Consumer
Minutes of the Requirements Council meetings of the Eclipse Foundation:

Requirements Council Meeting, November 30, 2004 (.pdf)
Requirements Council Meeting, August 31, 2004 (.pdf)

Planning council
Paul Clenahan Actuate BIRT PMC Representative
John Duimovich IBM Corporation Tools PMC Representative
Bjorn Freeman-Benson* Eclipse Foundation appointed by Eclipse Foundation (chair)
Doug Gaff Wind River Strategic Developer
John Graham Sybase Strategic Developer
Richard Gronback Borland Strategic Developer
Kevin Haaland IBM Corporation Platform PMC Representative
Georg Lenz SAP AG Strategic Consumer
Mike Milinkovich Eclipse Foundation appointed by Eclipse Foundation
Mike Norman Scapa Technology Strategic Developer
James Saliba Computer Associates Strategic Developer
Tyler Thessin Intel Test and Performance PMC Representative
Tim Wagner BEA WebTools PMC Representative
TBD Technology PMC Representative
Minutes of the Planning Council meetings of the Eclipse Foundation:

Planning Council Meeting, December 1, 2004 (.pdf)
Planning Council Meeting, September 1, 2004 (.pdf)

Architecture council
John Duimovich IBM Corporation Tools PMC Representative
Bjorn Freeman-Benson* Eclipse Foundation appointed by Eclipse Foundation (chair)
John Graham Sybase Strategic Developer
Richard Gronback Borland Strategic Developer
Kevin Haaland IBM Corporation Platform PMC Representative
Boris Kapitanski Serena Software, Inc Strategic Consumers
Wenfeng Li Actuate BIRT PMC Representative
Mike Milinkovich Eclipse Foundation appointed by Eclipse Foundation
Mike Norman Scapa Technology Strategic Developer
Michael Scharf Wind River Strategic Developer
Harm Sluiman IBM Corporation Test and Performance PMC Representative
Anurag Gupta Intel Strategic Developer
Tim Wagner BEA Strategic Developer
John Wiegand IBM Corporation appointed by Eclipse Foundation
David Williams IBM Corporation WebTools PMC Representative
Alan Young Computer Associates Strategic Developer
TBD Technology PMC Representative
Minutes of the Architecture Council meetings of the Eclipse Foundation:
Architecture Council Meeting, December 2, 2004 (.pdf)
Architecture Council Meeting, September 2, 2004 (.pdf)

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News and Comments

I attended EclipseCon 2005 in early March. After last year's great
conference, my expectations were high - and I wasn't disappointed. This
month's article is a report about what I saw and heard.

don.wills@dbcsoftware.com

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EclipseCon 2005

More than 1000 people attended the EclipseCon 2005 Conference. This
represents a more than 50% increase in attendance when compared with last
year's conference. One of the keynote speakers noted that there were only
four no-shows for this year's conference. Both numbers are indicative of
the growing importance and acceptance of Eclipse.

EclipseCon 2005 consisted of 3 keynote speeches, more than 50 sessions,
13 tutorials, and various birds-of-a-feather gatherings during the four day
conference. In addition, 37 exhibitors showed their products for two days
in the exhibition hall.

The most important announcement at the show was the addition of five
new Strategic Developers - BEA, Borland, Computer Associates, Scapa and
Sybase. Becoming a Strategic Developer indicates a significant corporate
commitment. Each Strategic Developer is required to contribute 8 full-time
programmers plus $250,000 per year to the Eclipse project.

With these latest additions, almost all large software companies have
now joined the Eclipse camp. Two major exceptions are Microsoft and Sun.

Borland's history and current plans for Eclipse are quite interesting.
Borland was an original founder of Eclipse, but did not initially make a
large contribution of programming resources or money. Historically,
Borland's JBuilder was a direct competitor to Eclipse, and a large part
of Borland's revenue came from products that were Microsoft-specific.
With its announcement that Eclipse will be an integral part of its new
ALM product line, Borland has decided that Eclipse is where its future
lies. This is a big deal.

Another significant announcement was the creation of the Business
Intelligence Reporting Tools (BIRT) Project. Actuate Corporation, a leader
in Java reporting tools, has donated a large codebase that is the basis
for BIRT. This may be of interest to DB/C users who are looking for an
inexpensive, cross-platform report generation tool. Crystal Reports and
others selling expensive reporting products may see their markets erode
because of this new, open-source alternative.

Other significant announcements include BEA's support for the creation
of the Web Tools Project and the work of several companies to extend
Eclipse for use with various other programming languages. Microsoft
even showed up to demonstrate Visual Studio (that technical session was
not well received because it turned out to basically be a sales pitch).

In summary, it was a quite worthwhile week. I'm looking forward
to EclipseCon 2006 which is planned for March 2006 in Santa Clara.


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It is also the gamble of former lawsuit maker wenfeng li whose long term lawsuit with Microstrategy cost Actuate millions of dollar and dozens of jobs. It is the desperate move of him to keep his position.

It is very sad that wenfeng li always claims that somebody in the company was his high school friend, somebody was his old friend. He is too generous to himself and too mean to other people. No wonder he got the lawsuit and he is too dangerous for the BIRT project. Please watch out for him!

It is also the gamble of former lawsuit maker wenfeng li whose long term lawsuit with Microstrategy cost Actuate millions of dollar and dozens of jobs. It is the desperate move of him to keep his position.

It is very sad that wenfeng li always claims that somebody in the company was his high school friend, somebody was his old friend. He is too generous to himself and too mean to other people. No wonder he got the lawsuit and he is too dangerous for the BIRT project. Please watch out for him!

As a Linux user I have tried almost every php IDE available for Linux and have found all of them lacking in some way.

For php development, Eclipse is a bear of a program and neither phpEclipse nor Xored TruStudio, both Eclipse plugins, work "as advertised". Both seem to be geared more toward Windows users rather than Linux users.

Eclipse is also majorly focused toward Java development with most of the other languages only nominally supported as far as I can tell.

Zend Studio seems to work really well under Gentoo Linux but it also had issues and annoying little bugs. The biggest issue is the price. To me, $300 is a lot of money when there are so many other equally unsuitable choices.

Until something really useful for Linux comes along I find a combination of phpEclipse (bugs, Java and all) and whatever small editor is available when I need one suitable for most things.

From the looks of things, Windows php developers have a rather large and colorful choice of options.

jaquita