Eclipse IDE intros Helios annual release train

OTTAWA, CANADA: To fulfill the needs of vast developer community, Eclipse Community recently delivered 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 now 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 are released and the work of 490 committers, said a press release.

The release train makes it easier for users and adopters of Eclipse technology to adopt new versions of the different Eclipse projects. The Eclipse community also makes available 12 different Eclipse packages that target different types of developer usage, including Java EE developers, PHP developers, C/C++ developers and many more.

"The Helios release is another effort by the Eclipse community", explains Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation.

He added, "Besides the feat of coordinating such a large development effort, Helios introduces important innovations in areas such as Git support, Linux development and JavaScript support."

Some of the features and project updates released in Helios includes:

* 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.

* 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.

* A new release of Acceleo 3.0 implements the OMG Model-to-text (MTL) specification and provides the features required for a code generator IDE.