Recent news 
05/14/2006: nexB has joined the Eclipse foundation
To be "good citizen", we have paid our dues and joined the Eclipse Foundation. We actually joined last month, just after EclipseCon, when we released 1.0.0 beta, but for some reason it hasn't been updated on the Add-in Providers page.
04/13/2006: EasyEclipse 1.0 Beta is available
Finally! It contains 5 distros (beginner, server, desktop, j2me, and lamp) and 60+ plugins. Ready to download! A few caveats, however:
- Not all plugins and distributions have been tested (that's why it's a beta). We decided it was better to release more, even if some things may still have issues. On the website, we've flagged all the distros and plugins that have (not) been tested.
- If you try any plugin, please tell us on the newsgroup or mailing list whether/how it worked for you ! It'll be useful to everybody, because it means we will be able to test more, faster. Positive, short, postings such as: "Plugin xxxxyz version 1.2.3 on WinXP Pro launched for me and performed the following functions: aaa, bbb, ccc" is perfect. If you find issues, we will try to fix them as soon as we get them.
03/20/2006: EasyEclipse 1.0.0 in Beta... for your eyes only
Close but no cigar... EclipseCon is starting today, and the release isn't ready yet; but it's close. We haven't opened the site yet for public access.
If you are reading this news, you probably got it from a link that's not official :-)
The big news is what you see right now: a complete website for the support of EasyEclipse. Not only one page for each plugin, but a good list of pointers, description, etc. for each distribution *and* plugins.
However, we haven't released the actual files. So, the "download" buttons will not be working...
01/05/2006: Release plan for EasyEclipse
We have finalized our plan to get to an EasyEclipse 1.0 release, and we are working already. We have set the following goals:
- Documentation, documentation ! Add a documentation page for each of the plugins on the website.
- Not one, but multiple prepackage Eclipse releases; at least three (Core, J2EE, J2ME)
- At least 30 components tested. Currently we're at 15, it should be feasable.
11/05/2005: New Website - "Shopping cart ?"
As we are adding plugins to the 0.8.1 release, we're starting to look at a new way to present the website.
An interesting idea, is to make it a shopping site, where people can buy plugins. But it would be about downloading instead of buying, and, since it's free, the payment unit would be the MegaByte and not the dollar.
Fun idea.. but we'll see if we have time to do it. Ideas are welcome.
10/31/2005: EasyEclipse for J2ME development
As part of a tutorial (PDF) that we wrote for the Sync4J project, we added a specialized release of EasyEclipse for mobile development. Basically it's EasyEclipse, with EclipseME added to it, and Quantum for database management. It would be nice to have some part of the WTP also (in particular, the great little TCP monitor), but it's not easy to separate... Anyhow, EasyEclipse for J2ME is available directly from the Funambol website.
08/08/2005: Two more plugins shipped today
Two more ! We're happy to add two more plugins to the distribution:
- Eclipse Colorer Editor 0.7.1
- Cbg Color Editor 0.3.7 -Patched with latests jEdit modes
07/06/2005: One more plugin today: FatJar
We're adding plugins as they come... today's addition:
FatJar Jar exporter 0.0.18 for EasyEclipse 0.8.0.
Fat Jar is a tool to export, open, manipulate Jar files from within Eclipse. How often have you wanted to open a Jar file in Eclipse, only to see it open as a gribberish binary file ? This plugin solves this problem.
06/23/2005: Patch release: EasyEclipse 0.8.1
Please use the 0.8.1 instead of 0.8.0. It uses a new release of Sun's JDK, fixing a security issue.
06/13/2005: EasyEclipse 0.8.0 released
Finally, the first release of EasyEclipse is out. It has the following features:
- Core with Installer on Windows, containing all need Eclipse.org components
- A set of pre-tested plugins for a variety of roles:
- EclipseNSIS NullSoft Windows Installer tooling 0.5.0
- Codehaus MevenIDE Maven tooling 2.0.0
- Eclipse Tools (EMF, XSD, SDO, GEF, JEM) 3.0 Alpha1
- Hiberclipse 2.0.1
- Quantum 2.4.6CVS
- Eclipse Visual Editor 1.0.0M4
- Eclipse AspectJ 1.2.0
- Eclipse C/C++ Development Tool 3.0.0M6
- Strutsbox 1.0b
- Spring IDE 1.2.0
- Amateras Struts, JSF and HTML visual editors 0.2.9
- Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment 3.1M6
- Regex-Regex Tester 1.0.0
- Regex-QuickRex 2.0.0
- Subclipse with JavaSVN 0.9.30
- Subclipse 0.9.31
- Eclipse Web Tools 1.0.0M4
- Eclipse Tidy 1.2.1
- JBoss IDE and XDoclets support 1.4.1
01/28/2005: EasyEclipse project setup
Ok, we're started... we've bought the domain, we're setting up the project on SourceForge...
01/15/2005: Eclipse Download Hell no.1 on Google
We've decided to do something.
I was looking for.... some download for Eclipse, so I typed "eclipse download" on Google, and what I got as first document (I was feeling lucky, maybe !) is a document titled Eclipse Download Hell where Simon Willison describes in detail how difficult it can be to select, download, and install Eclipse components.
There has to be a better way.
It has to be easy.
Mmmm... It there was something called easyEclipse where it would be easy to download eclipse ?
Let's give it a try...
