The Eclipse RT top-level project at Eclipse was created in 2008 (charter, creation review) as a means of bringing together various runtime related efforts and technologies at Eclipse. RT is designed to foster, promote and house runtime efforts in Eclipse . It is part of a larger Equinox Community move to drive Equinox-base technology across a broad range of computing environments and problem domains. These efforts strive towards the common goal of providing a uniform component model across a wide variety of computing environments. The Equinox framework and OSGi form the basis of this infrastructure.
Eclipse RT projects target "clients" and "servers" across embedded devices, desktops, and enterprise systems, and provide those intermediate software services which enable applications to be more easily and concisely constructed across these environments. This supports and extends the Equinox vision of a consistent programming and component model where developers create application domain code that runs on a variety of platforms.
By providing a consistent symmetric architecture, Eclipse RT technology enables developers to focus on the business problem at hand and still have many system architecture options available at deployment time.
The RT Project is top-level project of eclipse.org and is overseen by a Project Management Committee (PMC) and project leaders. Most of the real work however, is done in subprojects. The RT Project Charter describes the organization of the project, roles and responsibilities of the participants, and top level development process for the projects.
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Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF) [insert short description here] [to be moved] |
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EclipseLink [insert short description here] |
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Equinox Equinox the OSGi framework implementation that is the base runtime for Eclipse. It is based on OSGi. The Equinox project includes the framework itself, many OSGi specified service implementations and additional function such as the p2 provisioning platform, the extension registry, server side infrastructure and security faciliities. |
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embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP) eRCP project extends the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) to embedded devices. eRCP consists of a set of components which are subsets of RCP components. It enables the same application model used on desktop machines to be used on devices. |
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Rich AJAX Platform (RAP)The RAP project enables developers to single source rich, Ajax-enabled Web applications and typical RCP deployments using the Eclipse development model of plug-ins with the well known Eclipse workbench extension points, JFace, and a widget toolkit with SWT API (using qooxdoo for the client-side presentation). |
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Riena [insert short description here] |
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SeMantic Information Logistics Architecture (SMILA) SMILA is an extensible framework for building search solutions to access unstructured information in the enterprise. Besides providing essential infrastructure components and services, SMILA also delivers ready-to-use add-on components, like connectors to most relevant data sources. Using the framework as their basis will enable developers to concentrate on the creation of higher value solutions, like semantic driven applications etc. |
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Swordfish [insert short description here] |
Looking to find out more about RT and runtime technology at eclipse.org? The easiest way is to try it out. See the general Equinox Technology Getting Started Guide for how tutorials and webinars on how to work with the runtime technology at eclipse.org.
If you want to get involved, find out more, ask questions, report bugs, get (or contribute :-) code, check out the RT newsgroup or the newsgroups and mailing lists for the various RT projects.
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Equinox Calendar
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