Intel signs up to join Eclipse consortium

By Alun Williams

Posted on 31 Jul 2003 at 13:20

Intel has announced that it has become a supporting member of Eclipse, which is a consortium of software development tool vendors building an 'open platform' for integrating third-party tools.

Developers optimising applications for the Pentium 4, Xeon or Itanium processors will be able to use plug-ins to integrate Intel compilers and the VTune Performance Analyzers into the Eclipse development environment.

Eclipse describes itself as 'a kind of universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular'. It works by discovering and integrating such third-party plug-ins, which operate on files in the workspace and modify its tool-specific UI.

You can find more info about Eclipse at www.eclipse.org.

'We expect Intel's leadership and experience in processor and tools implementation to benefit all developers that utilize Eclipse-based tools and offerings,' said Skip McGaughey, chair of the Eclipse Board of Stewards.

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