The fact that its entire Eclipse-based product line has been updated to coincide with the annual Eclipse open source release, Ganymede has been announced by a leading provider of software quality and productivity solutions for the Eclipse platform, Instantiations, Inc. Bringing advanced standards-based security auditing to developers desktops as they write code, included with the roll-out are significant additions in the area of security to its CodePro AnalytiX™ comprehensive code quality product. The Ganymede release train includes the annual release of the Eclipse platform, Eclipse 3.4, which was delivered today.

Including the base platform, or 23 projects and 18 million lines of code, up slightly from last year's Europa release of 21 projects and 17 million lines of code, Ganymede is a coordinated release of 23 different Eclipse projects. The goal, by releasing these projects at the same time, is to make it easier to incorporate multiple projects into an environment. Each project remains a separate open source project operating with its own project leadership, its own committees, and its own project plan.

Executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, Mike Milinkovich, stated: "As the enterprise adoption of Eclipse grows dramatically worldwide, an annual Eclipse release train means organizations are only required to update their interdependent systems once a year, and this includes commercial Eclipse-based products, like Instantiations." He added: "It benefits the entire Eclipse ecosystem to have companies such as Instantiations work so closely with the Eclipse community to bring their high quality Eclipse updates to market so quickly."

So that its customers across all product lines benefit from the latest Eclipse features, Instantiations works closely with many Eclipse projects. Based on the OWASP Top Ten standards, to its CodePro AnalytiX product line, key product enhancements include adding dozens of security audit rules. This enables developers to automatically detect and address security vulnerabilities as they are writing code, thus closing the opportunities for potential malicious users, and focusing on quality earlier in the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Performance and usability were also enhanced across all product lines. Instantiations, in addition to supporting the new Eclipse 3.4 release, products continue to support prior versions of Eclipse and IDEs built upon Eclipse to meet varied customer needs.