Eclipse Initiates a New Runtime Technology Based on Equinox
The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community for building software, announced to develop and promote open source runtime technology based on Equinox, a lightweight OSGi compliant runtime.
The new initiative has been started to promote Equinox as a platform for building and deploying general-purpose software products and applications. To support Equinox community, the Eclipse Foundation has also announced the following: The Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors has approved and created a new top-level project called the Eclipse Runtime project (Eclipse RT) A new Equinox community portal has been launched on the Eclipse web site.
The portal is focused on promoting and educating developers on Equinox, OSGi and related Eclipse runtime projects.Equinox has introduced a concept called Component Oriented Development and Assembly (CODA) to build and deploy software. Developers using Equinox have flexibility in assembling and customizing their application and runtime platform. It also provides a standard integration mechanism, thereby allowing organizations to integrate applications with their partner and customers solutions.
