Curl intros development tools for Eclipse

CAMBRIDGE, USA: Curl, Inc. has announced that it has completed the final phase of its Eclipse development strategy with the general availability release of Curl Development tools for Eclipse (CDE).

The CDE is a set of Eclipse plug-ins that provides an environment for developing programs in the Curl language and on the current release of the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) Platform, Version 6.0. 

Earlier this year, Curl introduced its Eclipse development strategy, which included joining the Eclipse Foundation and unveiling the company’s plans to base the next phase of its enterprise RIA development tools on the Eclipse framework. 

“While consumers typically require faster and more user-friendly applications, the needs of the enterprise are much greater,” said Bert Halstead, vice president and chief architect, Curl. 

He added, “This has put intense pressure on corporate developers to build more robust applications even more efficiently to meet this demand. We are addressing the needs of those developers and the enterprises they serve by basing the next phase of our tools on Eclipse.” 

The CDE includes a language sensitive editor and search, integration into the Eclipse debugger as well as the Eclipse workspace for Curl projects and preferences, and documentation. Additionally, it also allows Curl program deployment and includes tools such as a VLE extension editor, profiler, code coverage, class browser, inspector and Hypertext Transfer Protocol Overview (HTTP) monitor.

The CDE is available for Windows, Linux and Eclipse 3.3 and 3.4 SDKs or any Eclipse-based IDE based on Eclipse 3.3 and 3.4.