London, England — (press release excerpt) — The Eclipse Tools project management committee has announced formation of the Graphical Editor Framework (GEF) Project, that will develop a framework for rapidly creating and customizing visual development tools. Visual tools are a key component of today's integrated development environments, allowing developers to depict design objects and their… interconnected relationships. These features make it easier to turn concepts into running systems that are easier to support through the deployment life of projects.

The Eclipse community also welcomes Fujitsu, Serena Software and Sybase as they join with Borland, IBM, MERANT, QNX Software Systems, Rational Software, Red Hat, SuSE, TogetherSoft and WebGain as supporting members. Representatives of these companies, each of which plans to release Eclipse Platform compatible product offerings, expand the Eclipse Board of Stewards to 12 members.

Eclipse is the open source environment for creating, integrating and deploying application development tools for use across a broad range of computing technologies. With today's announcement, the leadership of the Eclipse community expands to include industry leaders that create tools, middleware, database, web services, and content management technology for use across all computing deployment environments from wristwatches through mainframes.

 
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