Eclipse has set a new standard in IDEs and component-based development. Most of us get to know it as an IDE, but it can be much more. It also can be used as the basis for developing applications.

The Eclipse Foundation has established itself as a premier open source software tools project. The organization has gained support from vendors ranging from IBM (which helped found Eclipse in 2001) to ...

In a bid to get Java developers writing Flash applications, Macromedia is throwing its weight behind the Eclipse programming system. Eclipse is an open-source "integrated development environment," or ...