Curl Joins Eclipse Foundation and Announces Eclipse Strategy

Curl, Inc. announced it has joined the Eclipse Foundation, a not-for-profit, member-supported corporation that helps cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services. In conjunction with joining the Foundation as an Add-In Member, Curl released details of its plans to base the next phase of its enterprise Rich Internet Application (RIA) development tools on the Eclipse framework. As part of its Eclipse strategy, Curl will replace the current Curl IDE development environment, with a new one based on the Eclipse framework. This will include a set of plugins called the Curl Development Tools for Eclipse (CDE). The current IDE, renamed as the Curl Classic IDE, will coexist with the CDE through at least the first release of the new tool. The first CDE release will include all the functionality of the Curl Classic IDE, including the Curl language sensitive editor, debugger, search, deployment capabilities, Visual Layout Editor and more. Future releases of the CDE will integrate the Curl Visual Layout Editor into the Eclipse framework as a Design Perspective, and improve other programming productivity features such as error highlighting in the source-code editor, language sensitive navigation, refactoring and code assistance. The CDE is currently in alpha form, with the public beta expected to be available in mid-2008. http://www.curl.com