Eclipse Foundation

Handset manufacturers Motorola, Nokia, RIM and Sony Ericsson collaborate to simplify mobile development

OTTAWA – March 10, 2009 -- The Eclipse Foundation today announced Pulsar, a new industry initiative to define and create a standard mobile application development tools platform. The initiative is led by Motorola, Nokia and Genuitec. Participating members also include IBM, RIM and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications.

The Pulsar initiative will focus on four areas:
* The creation of the packaged distribution called Eclipse Pulsar Platform;
* A technical roadmap to advance the capabilities of the platform;
* A set of best practices which includes documentation and test suites; and
* Education and outreach to drive adoption of Pulsar with mobile application developers.

As part of the roadmap, Pulsar will support major mobile development environments such as JavaME, mobile Web technologies, and native mobile platforms.