Java development tools affect and interest every Java developer, and Eclipse is easily the most commonly used development tool.

On 7th Nov 06, Eclipse celebrates its 5th birthday, and on this occassion IndicThreads spoke to Mike Milinkovich, the executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. Mike took charge in June 2004 and has been instrumental in driving Eclipse adoption.

Mike talks about the current state of Eclipse and what to expect from it in the near future. He also shares his thoughts on Eclipse adoption and how Eclipse enables development of innovative software solutions. As for competition from other IDEs and the NetBeans switch campaign, he says “Switching campaigns are what the market followers do. We are frankly more focused on closing in on the adoption and usage rates of Visual Studio”

Wingware announced the release of version 2.1 of Wing IDE for Python, its popular development environment for the Python programming language.
Wing IDE is one of the best and most advanced Python IDE available today.