Portland, Ore. — May 24, 2004 — The Eclipse Plugin Central Alliance today announced that it joined the Eclipse Foundation as an associate member. Eclipse Plugin Central supports the growing Eclipse community by helping developers locate, evaluate, and acquire plugins that can help them deliver their projects faster, better and cheaper. Three longtime Eclipse members Innoopract, Instantiations and Genuitec recently formed the Eclipse Plugin Central Alliance and launched the web site at http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com [1].

"We are delighted to welcome the Eclipse Plugin Central Alliance as an associate member to the Eclipse Foundation," said Skip McGaughey, spokesperson for Eclipse. "Eclipse Plugin Central adds great value to the Eclipse ecosystem by offering a global portal where everyone, including professional project leaders, can go to learn about, evaluate, and license commercial grade Eclipse powered offerings."

Eclipse Plugin Central enables developers to easily find information o­n Eclipse open source, freeware and commercial plug-ins. The portal includes industry news, reviews of listed products and the ability for site visitors to post their own insight into the offerings. Eclipse Plugin Central is open to all participants of the Eclipse ecosystem. Developers who would like to list their offerings via the directory can self-register at the site or they can send their information to submission@eclipseplugincentral.com [2].

Since its introduction, Eclipse Plugin Central has grown at an impressive rate. The site now lists 170 plugins, registered over 600 members and routinely hosts 3000 unique visitors per day.

Eclipse Plugin Central is the community's answer to a reliable and professionally managed information portal for open source and commercial plugins. Eclipse Plugin Central offers: plugin directory, reviews, ratings, news, forums, community, listings for products and services. Eclipse Plugin Central helps developers to be more productive by providing them the definitive directory of Eclipse plugins in a highly intuitive, responsive and consistent manner. The Eclipse Plugin Central Alliance was formed in February 2004 by Innoopract, Instantiations, and Genuitec. To learn more, visit Eclipse Plugin Central at http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com [3].

Eclipse is an independent open eco-system of royalty-free technology and a universal platform for tools integration. Eclipse based tools give developers freedom of choice in a multi-language, multi-platform, multi-vendor supported environment. Eclipse delivers a plug-in based framework that makes it easier to create, integrate and use software tools, saving time and money. By collaborating and sharing core integration technology, tool producers can concentrate o­n their areas of expertise and the creation of new development technology. The Eclipse Platform is written in the Java(tm) language, and comes with extensive plug-in construction toolkits and examples. It has already been deployed o­n a range of development workstations including Linux®, QNX®, OSx® and Windows® based systems. Full details of the Eclipse community and white papers documenting the design of the Eclipse Platform are available at http://www.eclipse.org [4].

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