Projects and goals for the eclipse italian community

ECLIPSE is a development community with the only statutory “to contribute to the development, evolution, promotion and support of a platform (ECLIPSE) taking into account the participating open source communities, their competencies and services”. This effort is based upon projects and subprojects, ECLIPSE itself is, in fact, known as the ECLIPSE project, and JDT (Java Development Tools) is an ECLIPSE subproject. ECLIPSE is not only an extendible platform through plug-ins, but is a “modus operandi” as well, and a working philosophy aimed at increasing the competencies and abilities of the underlying community, obtained by using standards, tools, the sharing of information and the reuse of any sort of artefact. The communities are the projects’ engine, as they provide information on projects, resources and events. The need to set up an Eclipse Italian community, involving both universities and companies, is based on many considerations that will be discussed following. Eclipse Italian community was born in December 2005 during a workshop at IBM-Tivoli Lab Rome. This paper shows the state of the art of this community viewed thorough their projects, sustained from Eclipse ecosystem. Moreover we will show progress and goals for the Eclipse Italian community for the next future.