Curl Joins Eclipse Foundation and Announces Eclipse Strategy
Releases Plans to Base Next Phase of Curl RIA Development Tools on
Eclipse Framework
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Business Wire EON) April 7, 2008 --
Curl®, Inc.
today announced it has joined the Eclipse Foundation, a not-for-profit,
member-supported corporation that helps cultivate both an open source
community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services. In
conjunction with joining the Foundation as an Add-In Member, Curl
released details of its plans to base the next phase of its
enterprise Rich Internet Application (RIA) development tools on the
Eclipse framework.
Today’s programmers expect to do much of their
programming in an integrated development environment (IDE) without
having to jump around to unrelated and disconnected tools. Curl
understands the developer’s need for an
ecosystem of tools with a common interface and behavior. In response to
this need, the company is developing a set of plugins for Eclipse that
over time will replace all of the current Curl development tools.
“Eclipse is no longer limited to the Java
programming language. It is a universal IDE for any language platform,
as the implementation of the Curl IDE in Eclipse demonstrates,”
said Bert Halstead, chief architect, Curl, Inc. “Curl
is the most powerful RIA platform for the enterprise, and Eclipse is the
best general-purpose IDE available today – the
combination is unbeatable.”
As part of its Eclipse strategy, Curl will replace the current Curl IDE,
a full-featured development environment, with a new one based on the
Eclipse framework. This will include a set of plugins called the Curl
Development Tools for Eclipse (CDE). The current IDE, renamed as the
Curl Classic IDE, will coexist with the CDE through at least the first
release of the new tool. With the creation of the CDE, Curl is
reiterating its commitment to providing state of the art program
productivity tools that showcase the ease of programming in Curl.
The first CDE release will include all the functionality of the Curl
Classic IDE, including the Curl language sensitive editor, debugger,
search, deployment capabilities, Visual Layout Editor and much more.
Future releases of the CDE will integrate the Curl Visual Layout Editor
into the Eclipse framework as a Design Perspective, and substantially
improve other programming productivity features such as error
highlighting in the source-code editor, language sensitive navigation,
refactoring and code assistance.
“We are delighted that Curl has joined the
Eclipse Foundation,” said Mike Milinkovich,
director, Eclipse Foundation. “The Curl RIA
platform is a valuable addition to the Eclipse ecosystem and will
further broaden our programming language support beyond Java. Curl’s
support for Eclipse gives developers in our ecosystem a powerful
platform for enterprise RIA development, which is growing in importance
and prominence. We look forward to the company’s
contributions to the Eclipse community.”
The CDE is currently in alpha form, with the public beta expected to be
available in mid-2008. For more information and updates on the progress
of Curl’s Eclipse strategy, please visit the Curl
Developer Center.
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About Curl, Inc.
Curl provides a Rich Internet Application platform for building and
deploying Web-based applications that demand complex, highly interactive
interfaces previously only possible as client-server applications. Using
Curl, developers can implement a new class of complex,
business-critical, Web-based applications that cannot easily be
developed with Ajax or other smart client technologies. Curl allows
corporations with legacy client-server applications to move to Web-based
delivery, increasing reach and reducing cost. Founded in 1998, Curl is
headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Sumisho Computer Systems. Curl has over 300 customers and
40 partners world-wide. For more information visit http://www.curl.com.
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