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The Fornax-Platform is a development platform for tools related to the Model-Driven-Software-Development - MDSD. In this context tools are cartridges, transforms, ready-to-use generators or simple enhancements to make it easier to work in a MDSD environment. Another approach is to provide Howto's and tutorials that simplify the undestanding of MDSD. The Fornax-Platform provides infrastructure and tools to simplify the management and the development of such components and tools. It is independent from companies in this area of software development.

This page contains links to applications built on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP). The listings here are intended to get you started in finding out more about products and projects that use the Eclipse RCP. You can also view a pdf presentation of RCP based applications. We have also prepared some case studies of organizations that are using Eclipse RCP. Hopefully it will provide you a better understanding of the benefits from using Eclipse RCP for your application platform. We'd like these pages to be useful to you - so please email us your pointers and comments!

Eclipse Rich Client Platform has come a looong way since it was first introduced (and used in Eclipse IDE). The new Eclipse RAP (Rich Application Platform) is also becoming more and more attractive for deploying existing or new Eclipse RCP applications to the web. One of my the projects I'm working on is developed on top of Eclipse RCP. It uses additional plugins such as EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework) including EMF Editor UI, Teneo (EMF Persistence for Relational Databases), and Hibernate. After some work, I managed to run the whole application on both Eclipse RCP (desktop) and Eclipse RAP (web-based). See the screenshots for proof. Thanks to the recently released EMF Support for RAP I don't have to let go any of the nice EMF generated editor UIs for the web-based RAP version. What's amazing is how little the work I have to do to port the RCP app to RAP. The changes I needed to do is not changing code, but juggling dependencies to plugins and/or packages. Also creating a few platform-specific plugins (different based on whether I deploy on RCP or RAP).

The Whole Platform is an open source technology for engineering the production of software. Based on the idea that programming is an activity concerning the development of domain languages, the Whole Platform provides an Eclipse-based Language Workbench

This page contains links to applications built on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP). The listings here are intended to get you started in finding out more about products and projects that use the Eclipse RCP. You can also view a pdf presentation of RCP based applications. We have also prepared some case studies of organizations that are using Eclipse RCP. Hopefully it will provide you a better understanding of the benefits from using Eclipse RCP for your application platform. We'd like these pages to be useful to you - so please email us your pointers and comments!

The aim of this paper is a brief introduction to MDA technology and a summary / comparison to the approachments to MDA of AndroMDA and Acceleo, intending to be a practical and understandable summary Introduction Model-driven architecture (MDA) is a software design approach for the development of software systems. It provides a set of guidelines for the structuring of specifications, which are expressed as models. It was launched by the Object Management Group (OMG) in 2001 The Model-Driven Architecture approach defines system functionality using a platform-independent model (PIM) using an appropriate domain-specific language (DSL). One of the main aims of the MDA is to separate design from architecture. As the concepts and technologies used to realize designs and the concepts and technologies used to realize architectures have changed at their own pace, decoupling them allows system developers to choose from the best and most fitting in both domains. The design addresses the functional (use case) requirements while architecture provides the infrastructure through which non-functional requirements like scalability, reliability and performance are realized. MDA envisages that the platform independent model (PIM), which represents a conceptual design realizing the functional requirements, will survive changes in realization technologies and software architectures.

"Besides a rich user interaction many applications need to display a big amount of data sets as diagrams or reports as part of their applications. In order to bridge the gap the BIRT project was created as part of the eclipse ecosystem. BIRT is an open source Eclipse-based reporting system that integrates with your Java/J2EE application to produce compelling reports. That BIRT integrates well with classic RCP applications is a well known fact. But the need for rich internet applications is still growing. And here the RAP comes into play. As a platform for developing Web 2.0 applications with the same patterns as for RCP it paves the way for single sourcing applications running on both platforms. In this talk we will show how to integrate diagrams and reports known from BIRT into RAP applications. Topics covered include how to setup the environment to let BIRT and RAP play well together. In addition we will give advices how to use the reports inside RAP applications and which problems may arise. As a final outcome of we will know everything to bring reporting capabilities into RAP applications. "

"The Virgo Web Server from EclipseRT is a completely module-based Java application server that is designed to run enterprise Java applications and Spring-powered applications with a high degree of flexibility and reliability. It offers a simple yet comprehensive platform to develop, deploy, and service enterprise Java applications. The Virgo kernel supports the core concepts of Virgo and is not biased towards the web server, thus enabling other types of server to be created. The kernel can also be used stand-alone as a rich OSGi application platform. A server runtime can easily be constructed by deploying suitable bundles on top of the kernel. "

Robust implementation and avoid erratic delays are great benefits of Real-Time Java Platform. Aegis Software offering quality real-time application with standard java technologies and tools.

"A hub for integrating your enterprise with the rich information available on the Web, the WSO2 Mashup Server leverages popular Web 2.0 formats and protocols into your service platform. Combining simple yet rich mashups with reusability, security, reliability, and governance, the WSO2 Mashup Server includes features for connecting Web Services to humans through Web pages, gadgets, feeds, instant messages, email and more. The WSO2 Mashup Server offers: Go Cloud-Native WSO2 Mashups as a Service gives you instant self-service provisioning, multi-tenancy and has built-in monitoring and metering capabilities. Increase productivity Reduce cost Gain more control Avoid vendor lock-in The ideal platform for defining composite services for user interfaces and mobile applications. A simple way to deploy services developed in JavaScript. Access to REST and WS-* web services, feeds, and scraped web pages with data scripted together quickly using common Web developer skills, the result being a new service, or a web page, gadget, email or instant message. The ability to secure hosted Mashups. Support for both recurring and longer-running tasks and service lifecycles. Monitoring, configuration of security and quality of service settings such as throttling. With no up-front license agreements or subscription fees, getting started with the WSO2 Mashup Server requires less developer effort, ensuring faster ROI."

Akka is the platform for the next generation event-driven, scalable and fault-tolerant architectures on the JVM We believe that writing correct concurrent, fault-tolerant and scalable applications is too hard. Most of the time it's because we are using the wrong tools and the wrong level of abstraction. Akka is here to change that. Using the Actor Model together with Software Transactional Memory we raise the abstraction level and provide a better platform to build correct concurrent and scalable applications. For fault-tolerance we adopt the "Let it crash" / "Embrace failure" model which have been used with great success in the telecom industry to build applications that self-heal, systems that never stop. Actors also provides the abstraction for transparent distribution and the basis for truly scalable and fault-tolerant applications. Akka is Open Source and available under the Apache 2 License.

"NTail is a log file 'tail' plugin for Eclipse that enables multiple, independent view instances to be open at the same time. Each view instance is, in turn, capable of hosting its own independent set of log tail viewers. Developed to enable watching host platform and plugin-in runtime platform log files at the same time. Useful to simultaneously watch the log files of a mutli-tier system. Also enables watching the same log file in separate views subject to different line filters."

"JSwat is a graphical Java debugger front-end, written to use the Java Platform Debugger Architecture and based on the NetBeans Platform. JSwat is open-source software and is freely available in both binary and source code form. Its features include sophisticated breakpoints; colorized source code display with code navigator; byte code viewer; movable display panels showing threads, call stack, visible variables, and loaded classes; command interface for more advanced features; and Java-like expression evaluation, including method invocation. "

UNICASE is a CASE-Tool integrating models from the different development acitivities, such as requirements, use cases, UML models, schedules, bug and feature models into a unified model. This unified model is highly traceable by design. The UNICASE client allows to view and edit these models in a textual, tabular and diagram visualization. The models are stored and versioned on a server comparable to svn but customized for models. Client and server are easily extensible to support integrating new models into the unified model. UNICASE is based on the Eclipse platform including EMF and GMF. It can also be used as a framework to build modeling applications that reuse its repository and visualization capabilities. The project is open-source and released under the Eclipse Public License v 1.0 (EPL). It builds on our experience from the Sysiphus project in building a CASE tool.

Before you read, please look at this video, showing the core features of ECP. The EMF Client Platform is a framework to build EMF-based client applications. The goal is to provide a one-click application based on a given EMF model. Besides the EMF model no additional components have to be developed or generated. Therefore ECP provides a standard solution including the most common features needed for EMF-based client applications. This application can then be customized step by step. This can be done by extending ECP or replacing single components completly.

"Cross platform mobile development toolkit consisting of a DSL for defining mobile apps and code generators for creating native apps for iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7 and Google App Engine. Based on Eclipse and Xtext."

This video explains about who has created java, when was it created. What are the main reasons for its creation. What is platform independence and how java is related to Internet and other programming languages like C++ and C#.

"Some aspects of system implementation, such as logging, error handling, standards enforcement and feature variations are notoriously difficult to implement in a modular way. The result is that code is tangled across a system and leads to quality, productivity and maintenance problems. Aspect Oriented Software Development enables the clean modularization of these crosscutting concerns. The AspectJ Development Tools (AJDT) project provides Eclipse platform based tool support for AOSD with AspectJ. Our goal is to deliver a user experience that is consistent with the Java Development Tools (JDT) when working with AspectJ projects and resources. "

"The Community Dashboard Editor (CDE) is the outcome of real-world needs: It was born to greatly simplify the creation, edition and rendering of dashboards. CDE and the technology underneath (CDF, CDA and CCC) allows to develop and deploy dashboards in the Pentaho platform in a fast and effective way."