“Consolidated Application Foundation for Eclipse” Bundle Simplifies Installation and Deployment of Rich Java Applications
Slough, UK — 18th March 2008 — Ingres Corporation, a leading provider of open source database management software, announced today the creation of Ingres CAFÉ™ (Consolidated Application Foundation for Eclipse), which brings together in one bundle all the components developers need to create and deploy rich Java applications built using the Eclipse Foundation’s open source development framework.
“Since we launched the Ingres DTP Plug-in for Eclipse last year, we have seen significant community interest in Ingres culminating in the community contribution of Ingres CAFÉ, which we are thrilled to announce this year at EclipseCON,” said Emma McGrattan, senior vice president of engineering at Ingres. “The Ingres CAFÉ bundle takes the guesswork out of determining which set of components are required to build and deploy rich Java applications with Eclipse and Ingres all with a single click install.”
Built over the last year, Ingres CAFÉ is an open source community contributed project spearheaded by Samrat Dhillon, a graduate student at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
“Anyone can download Ingres CAFÉ right now,” said Dhillon. “Before Ingres CAFÉ, you had to build it yourself and put it together. Not anymore. It’s one click and code.”
Ingres CAFÉ bundles the Eclipse IDE, Ingres DBMS, Apache Tomcat, Hibernate and JSF libraries into a single installable package complete with quick start documentation and integrated maintenance, as well as a demonstration program so developers can learn by example. Ingres CAFÉ includes a version of the Eclipse Framework and will include the Ingres Eclipse DTP (Data Tools Platform) plug-in which was designed with developer productivity in mind, incorporating rich functionality of the tool while maintaining a consistent way of working. The Ingres DTP also provides for support of querying of data, the ability to run SQL statements by simply highlighting the statement text, direct editing of table data and database procedure code, and the ability to execute and get results from row producing database procedures. These assist developers to become productive immediately with Eclipse and Ingres. Maintenance is integrated as well, providing easy access to the latest updates and patches.
Stop by the Ingres booth at EclipseCON to see a full demo of Ingres CAFÉ. Developers can also immediately download the Ingres CAFÉ stack from the following site:
http://bugs.ingres.com/wiki/CAFEIn addition, Emma McGrattan will be speaking on Wednesday, 19th March at 5pm, at EclipseCON, in a session entitled, “What are the Top Ten Reasons You Need a Playstation 3 at Work?” The session is for anyone who wonders “what if” when faced with popular electronics and developing technologies. Learn what inspired the Ingres Engineering team to spearhead open innovation at work (and at play) with Eclipse, running the DTP with Ingres support on the PS3 (running Fedora Linux). McGrattan is a newly elected add-in representative for the Eclipse Foundation board of directors for the upcoming term.
Read more at Emma McGrattan’s blog, “The View from 25B” at
http://blogs.ingres.com/emmamcgrattan/.
