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Eclipse Hibachi Project Unites Ada Suppliers in Common Environment
Aonix, DDC-I, CohesionForce, and other suppliers providing industry support
SIGAda Conference, Fairfax, VA - November 5, 2007 - The Eclipse
Foundation today announced the creation of a new open-source project called
Hibachi. The Hibachi project provides an industrial-strength, vendor-neutral
Ada integrated development environment (IDE) that also serves as a platform
for other contributors to provide value-added functionality for Ada developers.
Hibachi is a sub-project of the Eclipse Tools Project, and it parallels and
complements CDT, the C/C++ Development Tooling project, providing a
multi-language native embedded software development environment. The name
Hibachi is an anagram honoring the late Jean Ichbiah, lead designer of the
Ada language.
To initiate the project, Aonix has contributed the
source code of AonixADT, an existing commercial Eclipse plug-in
technology that supports Aonix ObjectAda as well as GNAT tool
chains on a variety of host and target platforms, as the initial
code for the project. AonixADT is based on JDT and CDT, the Java
and C Eclipse development toolkits. Additional contributions to
Hibachi are being actively solicited by the project team.
Tom Grosman of Aonix was selected as project lead, supported by
Adam Haselhuhn of Aonix, Lisa Jett of DDC-I, Mandy McMillion
and David Phillips of CohesionForce, and other industry
participants. Other organizations planning to contribute to Hibachi
include OC Systems, Praxis High Integrity Systems, existing
opensource Ada projects, as well as universities and interested
individuals. The Hibachi Project is mentored by CDT Project Lead
Doug Schaefer of QNX and DSDP Lead Doug Gaff of Wind River.
"The Eclipse Hibachi project will promote wider adoption of
Eclipse-based development by the Ada community, which includes
many major high-integrity projects worldwide," said Mike Milinkovich,
executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. "Formally adopting
Ada functionality into Eclipse will encourage easier integration
of Ada development alongside other development tools and language
platforms supported by Eclipse. Eclipse provides an ideal solution,
giving Ada developers a universal open-source platform with a
broad ecosystem of plug-ins."
"Aonix is excited to play a central role in Hibachi and to extend
our involvement in the Eclipse community for the benefit of our
customers and Ada users in general," said Dave Wood, Aonix VP
marketing. "For years, we have been committed to Eclipse solutions
for the benefit of our Java and Ada customers, and our ability to
provide proven sources and project leadership to help launch the
Hibachi project represents the next stage of our commitment."
Major Hibachi functionality includes:
* Ada editor with semantic navigation, code assist, structural
representations, and formatting
* Build configurations
* Debugging support
* Refactoring
* Support for multiple tool chains
* Native or embedded launch capability
* Wizards and templates
The Hibachi project aims to become the benchmark Ada IDE, by
which all other Ada environments are measured, and the first
choice for Ada developers. Functionally, Hibachi will shadow
the ongoing development evolution of CDT. The first year development
will focus on supporting multiple Ada compiler technologies,
offering closer evolution with the CDT architecture, providing
useful and stable APIs, and integrating with the Eclipse DSDP/TM
and DSDP/DD projects. Subsequent phases will emphasize
implementation of new and improved functionality, such as
refactoring and analysis tools, and ever-increasing integration
with more varied tools.
In addition, Hibachi will provide an open framework for the
integration and use of other tools used during the lifecycle of
large-scale Ada application development. These tools include but
are not limited to analysis, modeling, testing, verification,
documentation, refactoring, and configuration management.
About the Eclipse Foundation
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. A large, vibrant ecosystem of major
technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities and research
institutions and individuals extend, complement and support the
Eclipse Platform.
The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported
corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects. Full details of
Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation are available at
www.eclipse.org.
About Aonix®
Aonix offers mission- and safety-critical solutions primarily
to the military and aerospace, telecommunications and
transportation-related industries. Aonix delivers the leading
high-reliability, real-time embedded virtual machine solution for
running Java™ programs deployed today and has the largest number
of certified Ada applications at the highest level of criticality.
Headquartered in San Diego, CA and Paris, France, Aonix operates
sales offices throughout North America and Europe in addition to
offering a network of international distributors. For more
information, visit www.aonix.com.
All company/product names and service marks may be trademarks
or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Press Contacts
Eclipse Foundation:
Steve Eisenstadt
Page One Public Relations
919-781-8096
steve@pageonepr.com
Aonix:
Janice Hughes
Media Relations
janice@hughescom.net
(705) 751-9740
Cell: (705) 774-8686
Tom Grosman
Hibachi Project Lead
grosman@aonix.fr
+33 1 41 46 19 60
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Original article found at:
http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20071105_hibachi.php
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