(press release excerpt) — Eclipse has launched a new open-source project focused on creating an infrastructure for developer collaboration tools. Instantiations, a supporting member of Eclipse, is organizing the project and has contributed a substantial body of source code to the effort.

The goal of the Koi Project is to develop standard facilities that support dynamic, fine-grained collaborative activities between development team members.

The Koi Project will make it possible to create new categories of developer collaboration tools with the Eclipse Platform and other tools.

The Eclipse Platform provides an excellent base for hosting innovative development tools. Current collaborative development in Eclipse is limited to course-grained file revision via access to external source code control systems.

Eclipse plug-in tools serve a large community of developers working on projects worldwide. Koi now joins the XSD, AspectJ and Stellation projects that are active within the Eclipse Technology PMC. Many independent tool providers are developing additional support for other technologies for use within the Eclipse development environment.

The Eclipse Platform and information on the Koi Project, including documentation and project source code, are available via download from the Eclipse website.

 
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