Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Eclipse Announces Pulsar Initiative to Define a Tools Platform for Mobile Development

Eclipse Announces Pulsar Initiative to Define a Tools Platform for Mobile Development

a new industry initiative to define and create a standard mobile application development tools platform. The initiative is led by Motorola, Nokia and Genuitec. Participating members also include IBM, RIM and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications.

The Pulsar initiative will focus on four areas:

The creation of the packaged distribution called Eclipse Pulsar Platform;
A technical roadmap to advance the capabilities of the platform;
A set of best practices which includes documentation and test suites; and
Education and outreach to drive adoption of Pulsar with mobile application developers.
As part of the roadmap, Pulsar will support major mobile development environments such as JavaME, mobile Web technologies, and native mobile platforms.