BusinessWire
December 13, 2005 05:00 AM US Pacific Timezone

Nexaweb Joins the Eclipse Foundation; Nexaweb Expands its Rich Internet Application Support for the Eclipse Open-source Community; soon-to-be-released Web Tools Platform supported by Nexaweb Studio

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 2005--Nexaweb Technologies, Inc. provider of the leading software framework for building and deploying Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), today announced it has joined the Eclipse Foundation, a not-for-profit industry organization committed to developing and promoting the open-source Eclipse universal development environment. As an Eclipse Foundation Add-In Provider, Nexaweb continues to participate in the open-source community and to align its industry-leading (RIA) software tools with the Eclipse community's leading-edge efforts to enhance developer productivity in building and deploying next-generation enterprise-class rich Internet applications.

Nexaweb's Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE), Nexaweb Studio, has supported the Eclipse open-source development platform since 2003, providing a robust tool set for developers to build rich Internet applications without compromising performance and functionality. Demonstrating ongoing support of the Eclipse Foundation, the current version of Nexaweb Studio is fully integrated with the soon-to-be-released Eclipse Web Tools Platform. This early integration effort will further increase developer productivity in building, integrating and delivering business-critical Internet applications by leveraging the flexible and extendible capabilities of the Nexaweb Studio.

"The goal of the Eclipse Foundation is to foster development advancements within the open source community," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. "As a longstanding supporter of Eclipse and leader in the rich Internet application market, Nexaweb has exemplified complete support of the open source developer community. We're pleased by their continued commitment to RIA development and welcome the company as a member of the Eclipse Foundation."

"We look forward to enhancing our longstanding relationship with the Eclipse Foundation and sharing our RIA expertise with the open source community," said Coach Wei, CTO and founder of Nexaweb. "RIA and open source development projects are poised for exponential growth in the near future, so there is ample opportunity to combine these efforts. Nexaweb, through our support of Eclipse, is committed to making this happen."

About The Eclipse Foundation

Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software. Eclipse provides extensible tools and frameworks that span the software development lifecycle, including support for modeling, language development environments for Java, C/C++ and others, testing and performance, business intelligence, rich client applications and embedded development. 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 Nexaweb

Based in Cambridge, MA, Nexaweb Technologies, Inc. (www.nexaweb.com) provides the leading software framework for building and deploying enterprise-class Rich Internet Applications. Nexaweb customers enjoy more efficient business operations, faster time to market and competitive advantage. Nexaweb-powered applications offer the scalability and deployment efficiencies of the Internet while delivering the functionality and power of enterprise applications. Some of Nexaweb's key customers and partners include Best Western, Siemens, Sun Microsystems, IBM and Oracle. With Nexaweb, businesses can deploy mission-critical applications via the Internet on any device without compromise. For more information, visit www.nexaweb.com or call (617) 577-8100.

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