Within the last five years, the scope of Eclipse projects focused primarily around embedded and device development have spawned a healthy, vibrant and significant movement within the Eclipse community. From the early success and adoption of the C/C++ Development Tooling (CDT) project to the creation of the Eclipse Device Software Development Platform (DSDP), Eclipse-based development has emerged as a defacto standard within the embedded industry.

In June, the Eclipse community will release its next comprehensive code base to the public, the Eclipse Europa release. It includes substantial productivity enhancements for C/C++ developers including a simplified new project wizard supporting project templates, new source navigation views and improved performance of index-based features. It also includes a new debugger services framework from the DSDP Device Debugging project that provides additional performance, functionality and modularity for commercial embedded debuggers built on Eclipse. Mobile platform support for WinCE 5.0 and Nokia S60 in the DSDP embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP) project is being expanded. There are also enhancements to the DSDP Mobile Tools for Java project, including Visual Flow editor, LCDUI Designer, support for external obfuscators, localization, new profiles and configurations (such as MIDP 2.1, Multi SDK support in a single project).