Eclipse.org May 2026

Over the decades, Eclipse.org has transitioned from a single-project site into a global platform for industry-wide innovation. It serves as a "community of communities," bringing together more than 300 member organizations and thousands of individual committers. Beyond the IDE: Key Projects and Initiatives

A rapidly growing working group focused on accelerating the development of automotive software stacks.

A collection of projects (like Mosquitto and Paho) that provide the building blocks for IoT gateways and devices. eclipse.org

A structure that prevents any single company from dominating a project, fostering a "level playing field" for competitors to collaborate.

The journey of Eclipse began in 2001 when donated three million lines of code from its internal Java tools to the open-source community. Originally intended to provide a common "workbench" for development tools, it was spun off into the independent Eclipse Foundation in 2004 to ensure vendor-neutrality. Over the decades, Eclipse

A next-generation, extensible platform for building IDEs and tools for the web and desktop.

The successor to Java EE, providing the specifications for cloud-native enterprise Java. A collection of projects (like Mosquitto and Paho)

While the Eclipse IDE remains a cornerstone for Java development, Eclipse.org is the staging ground for several other critical technologies: