Wind River Systems has released over 300,000 lines of code to the Eclipse Foundation, specifically to four Eclipse projects: the C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) Project, the Platform Project, and both the Target Management (TM) and Device Debugging (DD) subprojects within the Device Software Development Platform (DSDP) Project. The contributions are expected to not only benefit device software developers, but also enterprise and desktop C and C++ software developers by accelerating the maturity of the open, industry standard development framework.
Windriver is a strategic member of the Eclipse Foundation. Since joining Eclipse, Wind River engineering has invested hundreds of person-years integrating device debugging capabilities into the Core Eclipse platform and subprojects within DSDP to help build the most advanced, exceptionally broad environment for device software developers, said Steven Heintz, director of product management for developer tools at Wind River.
The code contributed by Wind River is derived from the latest version of the company’s commercial, Eclipse-based device software development suite, Wind River Workbench 2.5. According to the company, the Eclipse framework makes it possible for developers to leverage more than 400 commercial and open source plug-ins that aid in the design, development, testing and support of device software. Major hardware, software, and device manufacturing companies such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Motorola and Texas Instruments, have recently turned to Eclipse and the DSDP project as a platform to develop their commercial tools offerings.
Wind River Workbench 2.5 is shipping today. To download an evaluation copy of Wind River Workbench, visit: http://evaluations.windriver.com. Specific information about Wind River’s code contributions to the C/C++ Development Tools Platform, Target Management, and Device Debugging projects within the Eclipse Foundation is available at http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/. |
