On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Tom Seidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The current situation is that it is very difficult to define Eclipse. If
> you
> ask someone what Eclipse is, the most likely answer will be "A Java IDE".
> Let me cite the first sentence of eclipse.org
>
> "Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on building
> an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and
> runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the
> lifecycle."
>

Hmmm; Maybe we need a cool acronym/buzzword to describe what we're doing.
Rich web was around before AJAX, but the AJAX term rallied the community
around the concept.

Eclipse is composed of a whole bunch of technologies that work synergisticly
together.  We need a term that codifies/describes that synergy so that
people can understand it in the way that AJAX codifies and describes the
benefit of asynchronous Javascript and XML.

What we're enabling is really rich web and rich client from one source,
along with modular client and server-side applications via OSGI.

I'm not very good at coming up with clever names.  Nick Boldt, are you
around?  Wanna start a contest?


Dave Orme
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