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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...

nWire is a very useful tool for diving into unfamiliar code. This means it is an excellent companion for students learning how to program. We received numerous requests from students and professors to provide a discount to educational institutions. Today, we are pleased to announce our Educational Discount Program.

The offer is simple: students, faculty, staff and employees of accredited non-profit educational institutions can now purchase a fully functional 1 year nWire license for $19 (Java or PHP, $29 for both). That's more than 75% off the original price.

The educational discount licenses will expire after 1 year. We decided to provide a more substantial discount for a limited time license. Most students will need these tools in their more advanced years of study, so this should not be a problem. It is important to note that the licenses are intended for learning and teaching and should not be used for commercial purposes.

If you qualify for an educational discount license, you can buy yours today. Start from our Educational Discount Store. From there, follow the instructions. You will need to fill out an order form with your details. Make sure you correctly fill the institution details. The provided email address must belong to the domain of your institution. The details will go through our manual review and once the order is cleared (usually less than a day), you will receive an email with payment instructions.

We will also be offering site licenses to educational institutions who wish to install nWire in their labs. If you represent such an institution, please contact our sales for more details.

Finally, if you have any feedback regarding the program, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are considering this program "an experiment", so your feedback is very important to us.

Up until now, the only option to buy nWire was through PayPal. We chose PayPal in the first place because it is a nearly ubiquitous payment solution which provides strong security for the buyer. The payment process did go through the PayPal screens, but it did not require a PayPal account. Well, at least in most countries. It worked well for us, except for some isolated cases. Lately, we received more requests from larger business customers to provide an alternative payment method. Most noticeably, we were missing the ability to properly handle purchase orders.

Today, we are adding another way to buy nWire: through our resellers FastSpring. This means more flexible payment options and no dependency on PayPal (although PayPal can still be used). Buying through FastSpring means the invoice will be sent from them and the charges on your credit card bill will appear differently. Otherwise, you will be getting exactly the same license with the same level of support and commitment from us.

We are still be keeping our current option. Mainly because of VAT. FastSpring is located in the US, hence, customers in the US or EU will be paying VAT, excluding EU companies with VAT ID. While this is not a problem, we still want the option for individuals to buy nWire through our direct channel and enjoy a VAT free transaction.

Having two payment options could be confusing, so if you have a question, please send us an email or use the online chat box which appears on our shopping pages when we are online.

nWire version 1.2 is released today. In this version, nWire is split into two products: nWire for Java (the original nWire) and nWire for PHP. This is the first offering for the PHP community and we thank all those who supported us and tested our beta versions. Our Java users will also benefit from this version with the new Smart Focus mode and many small enhancements.

You can read the full release notes here. The user guide has been updated with useful information and it is also available online here.

The development of nWire for PHP was done with support from the Zend Studio team. Zend Studio is a powerful PHP development environment on top of Eclipse PDT. It is as essential tool for PHP developers working on large scale applications, much like nWire. There is a natural association between the two tools..

We also updated our web site to reflect the new distinction between the two nWire products. Be sure to check out our new introduction video. However, this is still the same nWire core. Both nWire for Java and PHP can be installed in the same IDE and work together for developers doing both PHP and Java development. We have a special offer for both products, check out our virtual shop for more details.

nWire for PHP is currently undergoing the last testing phases and it will be released early next week along with some major changes to our web site. In the mean while, our online shop has been updated with the new product offering.

The new product retails for $59. We are also offering a combined license of nWire for Java and PHP for $99. The two products are working perfectly together and can be installed on the same Eclipse instance (naturally, you will need both PDT and JDT). Users who purchased nWire before version 1.2 may add the PHP support for $40. Just contact our sales team and we will send you a special coupon for this upgrade.