IBM is reinvesting in the Eclipse Project with new vigor after spending the better part of last year in the background. Big Blue is expected to announce that it will contribute developer tools and resources tailored for developers that will link its open source Cloudscape project and Eclipse to help developers accelerate their open source projects. IBM's new Eclipse tools and plug-ins include WSDL, Eclipse Modeling Framework and the new Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) project. The company said it would make them available on its alphaWorks developers Web site. Big Blue also said it would spend an undisclosed sum on IBM Innovation grants to help foster Eclipse research. IBM is bringing more projects to the table, including Web Services Interface Definition for Intrusion Defense, Emfatic Language for EMF Development-Model Transformation Framework and the Partitioning Facility Editor for WebSphere Extended Deployment.

[Note: The Eclipse Foundation has also announced the first release of
the Eclipse Web services tools as part of the Eclipse Web Tools
Platform (WTP) Project.]

See also the Eclipse announcement:
http://xml.coverpages.org/Eclipse-WTP200503.html