Aonix, DDC-I, CohesionForce, and other suppliers providing industry support
FAIRFAX, Va., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- SIGAda Conference -- 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 Philips
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.
Support for toolchain extension points with integrations available from
multiple Ada vendors is anticipated early in 2008. Re-architecture work to
take advantage of the latest CDT developments and create robust and stable
APIs will result in incremental releases in mid-2008, and the first major
version (v1.0) is scheduled to take advantage of improvements of DSDP in
the Ganymede update later in the year.
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
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 http://www.eclipse.org.
About Aonix(R)
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(TM) 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 http://www.aonix.com.
All company/project names and service marks may be trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Aonix CONTACT: Aonix CONTACT: Eclipse Foundation CONTACT:
Janice Hughes Tom Grosman Steve Eisenstadt
Media Relations Hibachi Project Lead Page One Public Relations
janice@hughescom.net grosman@aonix.fr steve@pageonepr.com
(705) 751-9740 +33 1 41 46 19 60 919-781-8096
Cell: (705) 774-8686
SOURCE Eclipse Foundation
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Related links:
http://www.eclipse.org
http://www.aonix.com/
CONTACT:
Steve Eisenstadt of Page One Public
Relations, +1-919-781-8096, steve@pageonepr.com, for Eclipse
Foundation; or media, Janice Hughes +1-705-751-9740, cell,
+1-705-774-8686, janice@hughescom.net, for Aonix(R); or Tom
Grosman of Aonix(R), +33 1 41 46 19 60, grosman@aonix.fr
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