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itemis, ProSyst and SOPERA join the Eclipse Training Alliance

As an international expert network, the Eclipse Training Alliance pools the extensive Eclipse knowledge of its associate companies. With itemis, ProSyst and SOPERA as new partners the Eclipse Training Alliance now offers a total of 15 classes. itemis, one of Germany’s leading companies in the field of model-driven software development, offers classes on Eclipse Modeling (EMF, GMF) and model-driven development. OSGi and Java pioneer ProSyst offers embedded and enterprise OSGi training courses as well as Eclipse eRCP. At Eclipse Con 2009 ProSyst received two Eclipse Community Awards for their Equinox applications.  A variety of classes on service oriented architectures (SOA) is offered by SOPERA, winner of the 2009 Open Source Business Award.
The Eclipse Training Alliance launched a new website which makes it easier to navigate through this wider choice of classes.

Since mid June Heiko Seeberger complements our team. Heiko is technical director, will drive the Eclipse Training Alliance and will of course remain actively involved in open source projects. As for now, Heiko is committer to the Eclipse Equinox project and to Eclipse examples, works on Agile RCP and has just started a blog on aspect oriented programming. There’s more from Heiko on his blog. I’m glad to have Heiko on board – welcome, H

Eclipse Con ‘08 has been a great success for the Open Financial Market Platform (OFMP) as well as for the Eclipse Training Alliance. To be honest, I was surprised how much we achieved. Mike Milinkovich highlighted OFMP as an interesting project on the first day of the conference. And just on time for Eclipse Con, Aleksey committed the Rich Client Markup Language RCML as the initial part to OFMP. The Front Office Gateway is supposed to follow soon. Talks at our booth on OFMP showed that surprisingly many financial institutes are already aware of OFMP. On Wednesday, we had the BOF on collaboration in the banking industry together with Ian Skerrett and we were both stunned by around 15 people showing up (at 19.30). There is interst in trying collaboration between banks and we will work on ways to do that.

We also had a lot of interest in the Eclipse Training Alliance. Surprisingly there were not only new potential partners visiting our booth but also US based potential customers.
Our booth at Eclipse Con has proven to be too small for our big displays but we ended up with the certain extra attention.

Last fall we (WeigleWilczek aka the Eclipse Training Alliance) had a very successful RCP Training series in cooperation with the Eclipse Foundation. So we decided together with Ian Skerrett, Lynn Gayowski and other foundation members to repeat this good event. This year we will reach even more cities in Europe and the US (a total of 13 cities) and again we will offer our RCP course at greatly reduced prices. If you register before March 31 you will recieve an additional early birds discount.

The 4-day-classes aim on developers building Eclipse RCP applications and will help to understand the core RCP concepts and Eclipse plug-in architecture, SWT, JFace and other RCP components.

For more details and registration see www.eclipse-training.net