Eclipse Foundation

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The Eclipse Foundation
FormationFebruary 2, 2004 (2004-02-02)
Purposeadvance open source projects, cultivate communities and business ecosystems.
Headquarters Brussels, Belgium
Membership
350+ members
Executive Director
Mike Milinkovich
Website eclipse.org

The Eclipse Foundation AISBL is an independent, Europe-based not-for-profit corporation that acts as a steward of the Eclipse open source software development community, with legal jurisdiction in the European Union. [1] It is an organization supported by over 350 members, and represents the world's largest sponsored collection of Open Source projects and developers. [2] The Foundation focuses on key services such as intellectual property (IP) management, ecosystem development, and IT infrastructure. [3]

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The Eclipse Project was originally created by IBM in November 2001 and was supported by a consortium of software vendors. In 2004, the Eclipse Foundation was founded to lead and develop the Eclipse community. [4] It was created to allow a vendor-neutral, open, and transparent community to be established around Eclipse. [3] The Foundation utilizes a hierarchical project structure. Each project stems from a primary parent project and may have sub-projects. The uppermost projects, which do not have a parent project, are called Top Level Projects. [5]

The Eclipse Foundation is considered a "third generation" [6] open-source organization, and is home to Jakarta EE, and over 425 open source projects, including runtimes, tools, and frameworks for a wide range of technology domains such as the internet of things (IoT), cloud and edge computing, automotive, systems engineering, digital ledger technologies, and open processor designs. The Foundation is best known for developing Eclipse IDE, an IDE primarily targeted at developing in Java. [3] [7] The Foundation as a whole is largely centred around Java development, with more than 90% of its codebase written in Java. [8]

As of January 2024, the Eclipse Foundation hosts more than 415 open-source projects. [9] The Foundation also hosts 22 Industry Collaborations, including groups devoted to the Eclipse IDE, Internet of Things, and scientific research. [10] [11]

The Eclipse Foundation hosts DemoCamps, Hackathons, and conferences; its flagship event is EclipseCon. [12] [13]

Membership

There are four types of membership in the Eclipse Foundation: Strategic, Contributing, Associate, and Committer. [14] Each member organization pays annual dues based on its membership level. [15]

Strategic Members are organizations that invest in developers and other resources to further develop the Eclipse technology. Each strategic member has a representative on the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors. Strategic Members include the European Space Agency, Microsoft, and Oracle. [16]

Contributing Members are organizations that participate in the development of the Eclipse ecosystem and offer products and services based on, or with, Eclipse. Contributing Members include ARM, BMW Group, NXP, Witekio, and more. [14]

Associate Members are non-voting members who can submit requirements, participate in project reviews, and participate in the Annual Meeting of the Membership at Large and scheduled quarterly update meetings. [14] Committer Members are committers who become full members of the Eclipse Foundation. Committers are the core developers of Eclipse projects and can commit changes to project source code. Committer Members have representation on the board of directors.

A majority of Foundation members contribute to the Foundation by creating new applications and tools based on previous Eclipse applications, while a third of Foundation members interact with multiple Foundation projects. [17]

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The Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) Project is an open source software project that provides reporting and business intelligence capabilities for rich client and web applications, especially those based on Java and Java EE. BIRT is a top-level software project within the Eclipse Foundation, an independent not-for-profit consortium of software industry vendors and an open source community.

Xtext is an open-source software framework for developing programming languages and domain-specific languages (DSLs). Unlike standard parser generators, Xtext generates not only a parser, but also a class model for the abstract syntax tree, as well as providing a fully featured, customizable Eclipse-based IDE.

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Eclipse Che is an open-source, Java-based developer workspace server and online IDE. It includes a multi-user remote development platform. The workspace server comes with a flexible RESTful webservice. It also contains a SDK for creating plug-ins for languages, frameworks or tools. Eclipse Che is an Eclipse Cloud Development (ECD) top-level project, allowing contributions from the user community.

Eclipse Theia is an Eclipse open source project providing the Theia Platform and the Theia IDE.

Microsoft, a technology company historically known for its opposition to the open source software paradigm, turned to embrace the approach in the 2010s. From the 1970s through 2000s under CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, Microsoft viewed the community creation and sharing of communal code, later to be known as free and open source software, as a threat to its business, and both executives spoke negatively against it. In the 2010s, as the industry turned towards cloud, embedded, and mobile computing—technologies powered by open source advances—CEO Satya Nadella led Microsoft towards open source adoption although Microsoft's traditional Windows business continued to grow throughout this period generating revenues of 26.8 billion in the third quarter of 2018, while Microsoft's Azure cloud revenues nearly doubled.

The OpenJS Foundation is an organization that was founded in 2019 from a merger of JS Foundation and Node.js Foundation. OpenJS promotes the JavaScript and web ecosystem by hosting projects and funds activities that benefit the ecosystem. The OpenJS Foundation is made up of 38 open source JavaScript projects including Appium, Dojo, jQuery, Node.js, Node-RED and webpack. Founding members included Google, Microsoft, IBM, PayPal, GoDaddy, and Joyent.

References

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  2. ↑ Garriga, Helena; Spaeth, Sebastian; von Krogh, Georg (2011-03-31). Open Source Software Development: Communities' Impact on Public Good. Social Computing, behavioral-cultural modeling and prediction: 4th international conference. College Park, MD, USA: Springer. p. 72. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-19656-0. ISSN   0302-9743 . Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 "About the Eclipse Foundation". The Eclipse Foundation. Eclipse Foundation. Archived from the original on 2011-06-28. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
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  5. ↑ Dueñas, Juan C.; Parada G., Hugo A.; Cuadrado, Félix; Santillán, Manuel (2007). "Apache and Eclipse: Comparing Open Source Project Incubators". IEEE Software. 24 (6): 90–98. doi:10.1109/ms.2007.157. S2CID   11116785 . Retrieved 12 February 2022.
  6. ↑ François Letellier (2008), Open Source Software: the Role of Nonprofits in Federating Business and Innovation Ecosystems, AFME 2008.
  7. ↑ "Eclipse desktop & web IDEs". The Eclipse Foundation. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  8. ↑ Taylor, Quinn C.; Krein, Jonathan L.; MacLean, Alexander C.; Knutson, Charles D. (2011-10-07). An Analysis of Author Contribution Patterns in Eclipse Foundation Project Source Code (PDF). Open Source Systems: Grounding Research - 7th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference. Salvador, Brazil. p. 270. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-24418-6_19 . Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  9. ↑ "Eclipse Foundation Project KPIs, Eclipse Project Metrics". January 31, 2024.
  10. ↑ "Explore Our Industry Collaborations". The Eclipse Foundation. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
  11. ↑ "Collaboration yields open source technology for computational science". ORNL. Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
  12. ↑ Joncas, Roxanne. "Organize an Eclipse DemoCamp or Hackathons". The Eclipse Foundation. Archived from the original on 2018-09-06. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
  13. ↑ "EclipseCon". 2018-01-16.
  14. 1 2 3 "Types of Membership". The Eclipse Foundation. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
  15. ↑ van Angeren, Joey; Kabbedijk, Jaap; Jansen, Slinger; Popp, Karl Michael (2011-06-07). A Survey of Associate Models used within Large Software Ecosystems. International Workshop on Software Ecosystems 2011. Brussels, Belgium. p. 34. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.415.1098 .
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