Android and iOS are the top target platforms for developers within Eclipse's open source community according to a recent survey report.

Eclipse is huge in the modeling community. EMF is the core framework and code generation facility that allows developers to create applications based on a structured data model.

Eclipse Pulsar, an Eclipse project aimed at addressing fragmentation in mobile application development, has been held back by the perception that it is just for Java development, but it still ...

To develop Android applications, the user can employ Netbeans or Eclipse for assistance. Each Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is free and easy to maneuver.

The Eclipse Foundation releases Version 1.0 of its Web Tools Platform project to help developers build enterprise Java and Web applications based on the open-source Eclipse development platform.

Another significant departure for Eclipse that's under development is a move into tools for building applications targeted at specific industries.

Telerik has developed a service called Icenium to automate the otherwise tedious task of using traditional integrated development environments (IDE) for mobile app development.

In just five years, Eclipse has evolved from an IBM-controlled experiment to a de facto industry standard for Java development.