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Ingres unveils developer bundle for Eclipse users
IngresWednesday began offering a software bundle to make it easier for developers to build Eclipse-based applications on top of the Ingres 2006 open source database.
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The Ingres Eclipse Bundle brings together all the components developers need to create and run Java applications built using the Eclipse Foundation's open source development framework. Available for download from the Ingres Web site as a single zipped file, the bundle includes a version of the Eclipse framework and the Ingres Eclipse Data Tools Project (DTP) plug-in, said Emma McGrattan, senior vice president of engineering at Ingres. The bundle also contains source code of a demonstration for developers on how to use Eclipse and Ingres and instructions on getting started with Ingres DTP.
The Ingres DTP plug-in features enhancements Ingres made to the Eclipse Data Tools Project so that the development environment is more aware of syntax specific to the open source database, making it easier to run SQL statements and to debug code.
Previously, users had to download the Eclipse framework themselves, find the particular plug-ins they needed and use the Java Database Connectivity specification to link their Eclipse-based applications to Ingres, McGrattan said. Application developers within Ingres found that process time-consuming and the company realized its users must also be struggling with the complexity.
Ingres already offers bundles for the Python, PHP and Perl scripting languages, with support for Ruby coming next, McGrattan said.
Ingres definitely plans bundles of its database with third-party software, notably around business intelligence and application servers, McGrattan said. She sees plenty of opportunities for the vendor to "preplumb" or do the necessary integration legwork for customers between Ingres 2006 and other applications. "There are already projects underway at Ingres to build on top of Project Icebreaker as an appliance solution," she added.
Expected to ship shortly, Icebreaker, is a tight integration of the Ingres database with a version of rPath's Linux distribution.
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