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News Release from: Wind River Systems | Subject: Wind River Workbench 2.6
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 December 2006
Upgrades to workbench development tools
Wind River has announced Wind River Workbench 2.6, a significant upgrade and collection of enhancements to the company's comprehensive device software development tools.
Wind River, specialist in Device Software Optimisation (DSO), has announced Wind River Workbench 2.6, a significant upgrade and collection of enhancements to the company's comprehensive device software development tools With this announcement, developers will be able to more easily integrate the commercial-grade software design, analysis and test tools provided by Workbench 2.6 into existing development projects or workflows, and even install the tools into pre-existing Eclipse installations
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Oct 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Our latest Workbench tools are designed to unlock the power of VxWorks and Wind River Linux run-times," said Steven Heintz, director of product management, Wind River.
"Wind River is committed to enriching our customers' overall development experience by increasing interoperability with other software tools and fostering collaboration among hardware engineers, software developers and testers within a project team".
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"The new Workbench enhancements empower device developers to innovate at the application layer, reduce development costs and increase overall productivity".
Workbench 2.6 delivers device software tools in a standards-based Eclipse development environment that ensures higher-quality products, improved kernel and middleware insight, and higher productivity.
optimised for device software development across the entire product lifecycle, the latest version of Workbench offers knowledge-sharing facilities and a unique set of diagnostic tools to rapidly test and repair running systems.
New Enhancements in Workbench 2.6 include implementation onto existing Eclipse installation as a plug-in; to support users who already develop with Eclipse, Workbench can now be installed as a set of plug-ins to an existing Eclipse 3.2 installation.
As a result, users may now preserve projects and configurations in an existing Eclipse implementation when adopting Workbench.
Workbench is now compatible with CDT, allowing users to have both CDT projects and Workbench projects in the same Eclipse shell.
This allows Workbench to co-exist with other vendors' Eclipse-based products that may require CDT, significantly improving interoperability across the desktop.
The Java Development Toolkit (JDT) is now included in Workbench to facilitate device-focused Java development.
Support for multi-language systems has also been added to allow users to develop and support systems with both Java and C/C++.
Users may debug Java calls into C or C++ at either source code level.
Supporting Java helps developers deploy the right technology for the right task within their device while using Workbench as the common development environment.
This version of Workbench is based on Eclipse version 3.2.1, which is an upgrade from version 3.1 - used in Workbench 2.5.
As the DSDP project lead in Eclipse, Wind River is committed to helping customers stay current with the latest versions of Eclipse each year.
New Wind River Linux Platform Integration Plug-Ins for Workbench 2.6 include the new Wind River Linux Patch Manager: The Patch Manager makes it even easier for developers to visually import and manage Linux kernel patches provided by Wind River and the community.
Wind River ScopeTools now support uClibc - uClibc is a small footprint version of the GNU C library.
Those using or planning to use uClibc can now exploit the power of Wind River ScopeTools for dynamic visual analysis.
QEMU now supported as a target emulator and allows users to emulate Wind River Linux and device-focused middleware technology on specific target processor architectures, rather than run the target software in native mode on a Linux host.
Using QEMU is more accurate than native mode simulation and can be easier and less expensive than using actual target hardware.
Developers will be able to access online resources such as code samples, video tutorials, and community-provided tips via the new Workbench Developer Centre.
The Developer Centre is a Web-based repository of community and Wind River knowledge about how to get the most from VxWorks and Wind River Linux solutions using Workbench.
The upgraded Wind River Workbench 2.6 toolset will be available on 15 December 2006.
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