CA's On-going Commitment to the Eclipse Foundation and Mainframe Platform

“Eclipse is an open platform for tool integration built by an open community of tool providers. Operating under an open source paradigm, with a common public license that provides royalty free source code and world wide redistribution rights, the eclipse platform provides tool developers with ultimate flexibility and control over their software technology.”1

In December 2004, CA joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer and took on a leadership role in the Enterprise Management tools projects. One of our first interfaces made available using the Eclipse framework has been a plug-in for our CA Harvest Change Manager (CA Harvest) change and configuration management solution.  As members of this community and as an interested party in the revitalization of the z/OS platform, the question becomes whether or not the Eclipse framework can be extended to help provide the next generation of zSeries developers with this new, exciting single IDE.