Sony Ericsson today announced that it is joining the Eclipse community as Add-in Provider Member. By becoming an Add-in Provider, Sony Ericsson aims to contribute to the Eclipse ecosystem through creating Eclipse plug-ins of benefit to the global mobile application developer community.

Free developer ID certificates for Symbian OS v9 developers; free Symbian Signed for freeware; free Symbian Signed testing tools; Eclipse membership to support free Open Source tools; New Developer Accreditation program

At The Smartphone Show today, Symbian Limited announced that it has joined the Eclipse Foundation as an Add-In Provider. Symbian is contributing substantial development work, as well as adding its experience and expertise, to the global, community-owned Open Source project.

Carbide.c++ delivers developer productivity across entire Symbian ecosystem, leverages open-source Eclipse framework to encourage innovation and improve efficiency

In parallel with today's announcement of Symbian OS™ v9, Symbian announces that a wide range of standards-based tools designed to facilitate the development of phones and applications based on Symbian OS v9: ARM RealView compiler, CodeWarrior v3.0 IDE, free GCC 3.4 compiler and new free Eclipse-based IDE

The Eclipse Foundation announced that IBM, Motorola and Nokia have proposed a new Eclipse Technology project, called the Embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP). The proposed eRCP project will create several subgroups to investigate the suitability of using various components of the Eclipse RCP in a variety of embedded devices, such as mobile phones and PDAs.

This article describes the plug-in for the Eclipse IDE that I've written which allows to write Symbian programs under Eclipse. It's quite simple (the lack of debugger is probably it's biggest drawback) but definitely nicer than running ABLD commands from the command prompt.