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New Generation of Widely Adopted Eclipse CDT Project Now Available
OTTAWA, Aug. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Eclipse Foundation, an open source
community committed to implementation of a universal development platform,
today announced the next generation of the widely adopted Eclipse CDT
platform, a platform for building C/C++ development tools. Developed under the
leadership of QNX Software, CDT 3.0 delivers improved scalability,
performance, and extensibility to developers targeting embedded systems and
Linux environments. CDT has been adopted as the C/C++ tools platform for major
embedded and Linux vendors, including IBM, Intel, MontaVista, Novell SUSE,
PalmSource, QNX, Tensilica, Texas Instruments, and TimeSys.
"The scalability, performance, and extensibility of CDT 3.0 are
cornerstone achievements for the Eclipse community," said Mike Milinkovich,
executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. "Having a powerful platform for
building C/C++ tools that is widely used and adopted is an important component
of Eclipse's strategy for providing a universal development platform for tools
integration."
"The new features of CDT 3.0 create an enhanced platform for C/C++
development," said Sebastien Marineau, director, OS Development Group, QNX
Software Systems, and the CDT project leader. "Now, CDT 3.0 brings open source
software development to a new level of integration and provides a robust,
full-featured, commercial-quality platform for the development of highly
integrated tools."
The CDT Project provides a functional and extensible C and C++ integrated
development environment (IDE) for the Eclipse platform. The new CDT 3.0
features include:
* Faster Parsing -- The C/C++ parser has improved performance and speed,
resulting in faster and more accurate searches.
* DOM Based Language Backend -- The upgrade includes a more powerful
language model in the form of a DOM (document object model), making
everything from the C/C++ outliner to searching and refactoring more
accessible to plug-in developers.
* Indexer Selection -- Source indexers are now pluggable components,
allowing users to select from no indexing, CTags utility-based
indexing, and CDT parser-based indexing.
* Enhanced Managed Build System Configuration -- CDT 3.0 improves the
experience and workflow for developers and integrators. It offers full
control over the output artifact and extension, pre- and post-build
command execution, and per-project and configuration environment
variable settings.
* Build Environment Control -- CDT 3.0 allows developers to fully
configure environmental variables when launching external build
commands. The settings are configurable through the standard make and
managed build C/C++ project properties, or can be set when creating new
projects from the new C/C++ project wizard.
* Increased Support for Tool Integrators -- The CDT 3.0 managed build
system delivers better support for those who extend CDT, including ISVs
and OEMs.
Widespread Industry Support
"The improvements in this version of CDT coupled with Intel C++ compilers
help customers gain greater control and improve the ease of use of their
development environments," said James Reinders, director of marketing for
Intel's Software Products Division.
"The ability for system designers to develop in an array of languages is
critical for MontaVista's vision to innovate across a wide range of embedded
and mobile devices and communications infrastructure," said Peder Ulander,
vice president of marketing, MontaVista Software. "The evolution of CDT and
the Eclipse framework for embedded development continues to enable us to
deliver robust development environments for MontaVista Linux."
"The CDT is an important step forward for our developer tools strategy on
SUSE Linux," said Karl Bunnell, senior software engineer at Novell. "A key
reason Novell embraced Eclipse was to provide a production-ready, feature-rich
Java development environment on SUSE Linux. Now the CDT brings the same rich
development environment to C and C++ developers. Novell is excited about
including the CDT, along with Eclipse, with its developer tools suite on SUSE
Linux and the opportunity this presents to further drive the ubiquity of
application development on the Linux platform."
"Texas Instruments is pleased with the upgrade in functionality built into
CDT 3.0. This new release contains a number of significant improvements that
will benefit Code Composer Essentials, our Eclipse-based IDE for TI's MSP430
platform of ultra-low-power MCUs. Combined with the benefits of the Eclipse
open source platform, CDT 3.0 is a sign of the strength that so many companies
play a vital role in the continued development of the project," according to
Juan Alvarez, MSP430 worldwide marketing manager, TI.
"Eclipse and Eclipse CDT provide a rapidly evolving open source platform
that sets interoperability standards and nurtures a commercial tools
ecosystem," said Manas Saksena, chief technology officer at TimeSys. "As an
early adopter of Eclipse CDT in the embedded Linux domain, TimeSys has seen
tremendous progress in the capabilities and maturity of Eclipse CDT as a
framework for C/C++ application development and debugging. We're looking
forward to leveraging CDT 3.0, and enhancing it for use as a cross-platform
development solution for resource-constrained embedded targets."
About the Eclipse Foundation
Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on
providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for
building software. Eclipse provides extensible tools and frameworks that span
the software development lifecycle, including support for modeling, language
development environments for Java, C/C++ and others, testing and performance,
business intelligence, rich client applications and embedded development. A
large, vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups,
universities and research institutions and individuals extend, complement and
support the Eclipse Platform.
The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation
that hosts the Eclipse projects. Full details of Eclipse and the Eclipse
Foundation are available at http://www.eclipse.org.
About QNX Software Systems
With millions of installations worldwide, QNX Software Systems is the
global leader in real-time, microkernel operating system technology. Companies
like Cisco, DaimlerChrysler, Lockheed Martin, Panasonic, Siemens, and General
Electric rely on QNX technology to build ultra-reliable systems for the
networking, automotive, medical, military, and industrial automation markets.
Founded in 1980, QNX Software Systems has offices throughout North America,
Europe, and Asia. Visit http://www.qnx.com.
All company/product names and service marks may be trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Press Contact:
Paul Leroux Bill Keeler/Chantal Yang
QNX Software Systems Schwartz Communications
613-591-0931 781-684-0770
paull@qnx.com qnx@schwartz-pr.com
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