"I am personally quite excited about PHP development with Eclipse..."

Historically, Eclipse is best known in the enterprise development space with tools for Java, JEE, Web Services, etc. But in fact, Eclipse is just as widely adopted in embedded and mobile device software development. We see a lot of developers that build applications for embedded and mobile devices use Eclipse as their tools platform. The major players in the embedded and mobile market have standardized on Eclipse, including Nokia, Motorola, Wind River, QNX, Monta Vista, ARM, TI, SonyEricsson, etc.

"Eclipse is widely adopted in embedded and mobile device software development.."

IndicThreads >> Some time back NetBeans launched a 'switch' campaign to encourage developers to switch from Eclipse to NetBeans. Does Eclipse have a "Why you should not switch" list?

Mike Milinkovich >> No, we have seen no need. Switching campaigns are what the market followers do. We’re frankly more focused on closing in on the adoption and usage rates of Visual Studio.

"Switching campaigns are what the market followers do..."

IndicThreads >> With NetBeans and Eclipse being dominant in the Java IDE market, how do you see this affect the Java IDE market as a whole? Are we seeing a reduction in choice for the developer?

Mike Milinkovich >> Developers today have lots of choice and in some way maybe even more choice because of Eclipse. Companies like IBM, BEA, Borland, SAP and smaller companies like Genuitec, Instantiations, Exadel and many more are creating innovative Java developer tools on top of Eclipse. Eclipse makes it easier for these companies to create innovative solutions and not have to reinvent the wheel on the core IDE functionality.

"Eclipse makes it easier to create innovative solutions and not have to reinvent the wheel..."

IndicThreads >> Where do you see Eclipse going from here? Do you see Ajax and Web 2.0 having an impact?

Mike Milinkovich >> We’re very excited about some of the projects at Eclipse related to Ajax. Our Ajax Toolkit Framework (ATF) project provides the best tooling solution available today for Ajax edit, compile and debug. ATF works with most of the primary Ajax frameworks such as Dojo, OpenRico and Zimbra. So Eclipse is quickly emerging as the tools platform for AJAX. We are also seeing commercial vendors like ActiveGuard building their tools on Eclipse.

"Our Ajax Toolkit Framework (ATF) project provides the best tooling solution available today for Ajax edit, compile and debug..."

The Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) project provides an Ajax runtime project that leverages the Eclipse plug-in architecture to provide a familiar component-based programming model for Ajax application development.

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