Enea has joined the Eclipse Foundation, and will market an IDE (integrated development environment) based on Eclipse, the company announced today. Enea has joined the Foundation as an Add-in Provider, and is in the process of creating an Eclipse-based product optimized for its OSE RTOS.

Enea's Eclipse-based IDE is likely to support embedded Linux development, given that the company has several products aimed at enabling its OSE RTOS to run alongside the open source operating system in telecom equipment. Enea competitor Wind River shipped the Eclipse-based Workbench 2.0 IDE last summer, with support for both Linux and VxWorks. Wind River also announced yesterday that it will start a top-level Eclipse project to optimize Eclipse for embedded device software development.

Enea says its Eclipse-based IDE will utilize the CDT (C/C++ Development Tools) Project, and will offer profiling and other IDE components.

“The Eclipse Framework is a big win for RTOS companies like Enea who want to offer their customers a complementary IDE and other point tools without having to provide the entire framework and plunge headlong into the tools business,” said Mike Christofferson, director of product marketing at Enea.

 
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