San Francisco, CA - June 6, 2005 - Macromedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: MACR) today announced plans to join the Eclipse Foundation, a not-for-profit industry organization committed to developing and promoting the open-source Eclipse universal development platform. Macromedia plans to deliver a next-generation rich Internet application (RIA) development tool based on Eclipse.

I read that at first and I was like, "finally a real code editor for web developers from Macromedia." Then I read further and discovered it was only for the Flex framework which as I understand it is for building Flash web applications. I will have to take a look at when they finish the project in 5 years and see what it's like. But what I was really hoping for was some cool web development plug-ins for Eclipse. Oh well, better luck next time right!

I think there is hope still, if Macromedia is getting interested in Eclipse maybe eventually they will start making some better tools for web development. As it stands right now the current plug-ins for Eclipse are let's just say lack luster. At the very least it will draw more attention to the Eclipse project and hopefully better tools will emerge.