Consumers will soon be able to download the JRE for Mac OS X from Java.com, just as they do for all other operating systems, and Oracle will provide auto-updates for Mac OS X at the same time as for ...

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The Eclipse Foundation has announced the launch of the Indigo release train. The coordinated release includes 62 projects with over 400 individual developers. Of course this comes out the day after I ...

Borland's recent announcement that it is donating portions of the JBuilder IDE's codebase to the Eclipse project portends an intriguing set of developments in the Java IDE space. The first trend is ...

It's been almost a year since I called for Eclipse to join Sun's Java Community Process (JCP) organization, and almost three years since Sun suggested closer ties in an open letter to Eclipse. But ...

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A tale of dueling open-source projects for object-relational mapping may be brewing within Eclipse, with similar proposals floated by Versant Corp. and Oracle Corp. Versant plans to announce on ...