Eclipse Delivers Callisto

On June 26, Eclipse announced Callisto, which is the release of 10 new open source tools. With Callisto, Eclipse has met its release schedule for three years in a row.

A major emphasis of Callisto is to make it easier for organizations, such as ISVs and enterprise developers, to adopt Eclipse as their platform for application development. Callisto includes releases of the following Eclipse projects:

• Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) 2.1
  
• C/C++ IDE (CDT) 3.1
  
• Data Tools Platform (DTP) 1.0
  
• Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) 2.2
  
• Graphical Editor Framework (GEF) 3.2
  
• Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF)1.0
  
• Eclipse Project 3.2
  
• Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) 4.2,
  
• Web Tools Platform (WTP) 1.5
  
• Visual Editor (VE) 1.2.
  

Read more in this InformationWeek article.

SweetDEV Ajax Framework

Ideo Technologies (www.ideotechnologies.com) has released version 1.0 of its SweetDEV RIA, which is a set of Ajax widgets that integrates with Java EE on the server side. With SweetDEV, you continue to develop your application with frameworks like Struts or Java Server Faces (JSF) -- SweetDEV RIA widgets plug into your JSP pages.
To see examples of SweetDEV’s widgets (such as a datagrid, spreadsheet, and user preferences), visit their examples page at http://sweetdev-ria.ideotechnologies.com/sweetdev-ria-gettingStarted-1.0

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