Product History
The first commercial J2EE IDE for Eclipse, MyEclipse was launched by Genuitec in 2003, with a handful of features, and the commitment to deliver a complete and affordable development environment through rapid and iterative releases.
The inspiration for MyEclipse came from Genuitec's founders, who spearheaded the company in 1997, providing IT consulting. As a way to market the consulting services, they soon began offering free development tools for download on the Genuitec Web site. After several hundred thousand downloads, the team realized the market potential of Eclipse-based solutions, and began developing the first commercial release of MyEclipse. By 2005, Genuitec was primarily a product-based company focused on advancement of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench.
Today Genuitec and MyEclipse are innovators and lead the industry with many firsts including:
- First Eclipse-based IDE with low-cost, all-inclusive subscription pricing
- First source-level JSP debugger for Eclipse
- First public Eclipse rich-client platform (RCP) concept article in early 2002
- First commercial Eclipse RCP applications
- First and largest suite of server connectors
- First "hot sync" Java EE/J2EE application deployer
- First native JavaScript debugger
- First Web 2.0 / AJAX development environment
- First IDE to fully support Hibernate/Spring integration
- First full-featured image editor for Eclipse
- First IDE to integrate NetBeans features into Eclipse
- First to create platform-independent RCP applications with SNAPs
Looking to the future, Genuitec will continue its aggressive plans of adding high productivity Visual and Rapid Application (RAD) tools to MyEclipse.
For a more complete overview of MyEclipse goals and tentative roadmap for 2007, please see the
MyEclipse Roadmap.
For MyEclipse Open Source resources and contributions, please visit the
Open Source Resources page.
