Eclipse Helios Annual Release Train Has Arrived

OTTAWA, June 23, 2010 - Today the Eclipse community delivers its annual release train, a
coordinated release of the major Eclipse projects. For the seventh year in a
row, the 2010 release train, code named Helios, arrives on time and is
available for download.

The Helios release is the largest release train produced by the Eclipse
community, including 39 different project teams, over 33 million lines of
code and the work of 490 committers. The release train makes it easier for
users and adopters of Eclipse technology to adopt new versions of Eclipse
projects.

Some highlights of the Helios release include:

    - A new Linux IDE package makes it easier for Linux developers to use an
      integrated tool chain for building C/C++ applications for the Linux
      operating system.

    - Eclipse Marketplace Client provides developers an 'app-store'
      experience to easily discover and install new Eclipse plug-ins.

    - Support for Git, a popular distributed version control (DVCS), is
      provided by the new Eclipse EGit and JGit projects.

    - The Web Tools Platform project has introduced support for creating,
      running, and debugging applications written for the latest Java EE
      Specifications (Java EE 6) including, Servlet 3.0, JPA 2.0, JSF 2.0,
      and EJB 3.1.

    - Improved support in the JavaScript Development Tools project (JSDT) for
      JavaScript developers, including a JavaScript debug framework that
      allows for integration of JavaScript debuggers, such as Rhino and
      Firebug.

    - Eclipse Xtext 1.0, a popular framework for creating domain specific
      languages (DSL), introduces 80 new features, including improved
      performance and scalability by up to 30 times previous versions.

    - Eclipse Acceleo 3.0 implements the OMG Model-to-text specification and
      provides tooling for example-based design of code generators.

Visit www.eclipse.org/helios for more information.

    Press Contact: 

    Ian Skerrett,
    Eclipse Foundation,
    ian@eclipse.org,
    tel: +1-613-224-9461

Press Contact: Ian Skerrett, Eclipse Foundation, ian at eclipse.org, tel: +1-613-224-9461