Guest: Cheryl Morris, Alex Orso, Li-Te Chang, Martin Robillard

Host: Martin Lippert

Over the last few years,

Eclipse
has grown from a simple little IDE into a platform for developing
software that can be used at many levels of complexity.

At OOPSLA 2002, IBM announced the first round of Eclipse Innovation
Grants, which funded 49 academics and researchers to do explore
the uses of Eclipse in their work. These projects expanded the
base of the software platform, but it also created something
just as valuable: personal experiences growing and using Eclipse
for teaching and research.

Then, at OOPSLA 2003, the grant recipients presented their
results in the first Eclipse Technology Exchange (ETX) workshop.
This year, the organizers return to ooPSLA
for the

fifth workshop
in the series. It will be held on Sunday, October 21, the first
day of workshops and tutorials.

This year's workshop will focus on the use Eclipse as a platform in
teaching and research. It provides academics and researchers an
opportunity to share their results and to help others to build on
these experiences.

In addition to experience reports, the fifth ETX offers an opening
keynote address by Jeff McAffer, IBM Rational, titled "Equinox --
Trends in Eclipse as a Runtime". Jeff leads the Eclipse Equinox OSGi
team in "forging new ground for Eclipse as a runtime", seeking to
do for the server what Eclipse has already done to client-side
tool development.

In this podcast, Martin Lippert of Software Engineering Radio
chats with the organizers of the 2007 ETX organizers at
ooPSLA -- Cheryl Morris (IBM
Toronto), Alex Orso (Georgia Tech), Li-Te Chang (IBM Cambridge),
and Martin Robillard (McGill University) -- to talk first about
the history of the ETX workshops and poster sessions and then
about some of the exciting elements of this year's workshop
program.