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Today we have a big announcement: nWire Software joins the Eclipse foundation. You can read the full press release here. This is our way of showing commitment and support to the Eclipse community. We have been active members of the community for a long time and we are very pleased to finally make this step.

There are benefits for our users as well. First, we will be mirroring full Eclipse downloads on our site. The downloads are served using a very fast CDN based on Limelight infrastructure. Try it yourself, it is FAST. We are hosting all the popular downloads for Helios (Eclipse 3.6) and Galileo (Eclipse 3.5). Plus, you can choose to add nWire to the prepackaged download. This will save you the trouble of installing nWire later.

But that’s not all. Helios has a new snazzy Eclipse Marketplace client. It makes finding plugins and installing them so much easier. Now that we are Eclipse members, you can find and install nWire directly from the Eclipse Market place dialog box. It is simple and works great. To get started, select Help → Eclipse Marketplace...

Eclipse 3.5 release, aka Galileo is just around the corner. The final release will be at the end of June. Internally, we are already using Galileo for our own development and we are happy to report that nWire runs smoothly with this new release of Eclipse.

We will be adding official support for Eclipse 3.5 shortly after the final release, but this should not stop you from upgrading to the latest and greatest today. As always, if you do encounter any problems, please let us know.

What is new in Galileo? Well, the best source of information is the New and Noteworthy pages for all the milestone. You will instantly notice a new plugin installation dialog, block selection mode in the editor, ability to jump to a function reference or implementation and much more. Mac users can finally use Eclipse with Java 1.6 running in 64-bit mode with the SWT-Cocoa implementation. I will be blogging about it further in my blog in the upcoming weeks, so stay tuned.