A tour on eclipse technologies

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. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects and helps cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services. Today, the Eclipse community consists of individuals and organizations from a cross section of the software industry.Getting to know this platform is important for developers since it can improve speed in rapid prototyping developing as much as 90%. Having this technology, allows students and researchers to incorporate the latest technologies in their application at no cost and quickly. A seminar on the ongoing eclipse projects and a look ahead to the platform development will be held. The seminar will be composed of two parts. The first one will concern the open innovation network, open source and the eclipse Italian community. The second part will deal with eclipse as platform, projects in progress and opportunities. The seminar is for students, teachers and researchers coming from both the university and the industr