With the EclipseWorld conference kicking off this week in Boston, it would be easy to think
the open source Java tools project is everywhere.
According to the latest research from Evans Data, it is everywhere with developers.
Eclipse RCP enables developers to more easily “Over the last year we have seen a lot more
Evans Data is reporting in its 2006 Annual Eclipse Global Enterprise
Survey Research Findings that 60 percent of respondents indicated they used
Eclipse as their primary IDE
The study also found that in 2006, 65 percent of respondents used eclipse to
develop server centric applications. In 2005 only 55 percent reported using
Eclipse for server centric apps.
Of particular note in the survey results: two-thirds of the study respondents
indicated they would make use of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform
(RCP) in the next six month.
develop cross platform applications that will run on Linux, Windows and
Macintosh. IBM has cited Eclipse RCP as the tool that it used to enable Lotus Notes to run
on Linux.
“We were very pleasantly surprised about the growth in the adoption of
Eclipse RCP,” Mike
Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, told
internetnews.com.
companies and developers talking about using RCP and this study confirmed
this. That many more respondents also said they were planning on using
RCP in the next six months was also pretty exciting.”
Milinkovich overall has very high hopes for Eclipse RCP, especially as Microsoft’s Windows Vista release grows closer.
“Microsoft Vista is causing a lot of organizations to reconsider their
technology platform and I think Eclipse RCP will be a great alternative to
.NET,” Milinkovich said. “We think that RCP has a great component model and
its multi-platform capabilities offers developers more choice and
flexibility.”
