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The Eclipse Foundation has recently announced the availability of its annual coordinated project release.

Code named Europa, the 2007 release features 21 Eclipse projects for software developers and is more than double the size of last year’s release. Consisting of more than 17 million lines of code, this release boasts the contributions of over 310 open source developers located in 19 different countries.

This is the fourth consecutive year when the Eclipse community has shipped a major release on schedule. Last year, the release code named Callisto, involved 10 project teams, 7 million lines of code, and 260 open-source developers in 12 countries.

Europa’s new release includes new runtime technology for creating server applications, developer tools for service-oriented architecture (SOA), tools for improving team collaboration and support for users of the popular Ruby programming language.

“Eclipse is a very successful open development platform for the software industry,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation in a statement to the press.

Milinkovich believes the Eclipse Europa release is an important milestone for fulfilling their community’s strategy of providing a common development platform for embedded, rich client, rich internet and server applications.

“The tremendous advantage Eclipse provides is that it spans these different types of applications with a common component model, frameworks and tools,” he concluded.

Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle.

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Anuradha Shukla is a contributing editor for TMCnet, covering call centers, CRM and information technology. To see more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.

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