Salesforce.com Gives Developers New Tools for Coding in the Clouds With New Eclipse-based Force.com IDE
March 25 2009 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Corporate IT developers and ISVs can use Force.com IDE to build
cloud computing applications on Force.com platform SAN FRANCISCO,
March 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salesforce.com, (NYSE: CRM) the
enterprise cloud computing company, today announced the
availability of a new version of the Force.com IDE (Integrated
Development Environment). Built on the popular Eclipse framework,
the Force.com IDE extends Eclipse beyond traditional software
development and provides developers with a robust development and
testing environment to create cloud computing applications on the
Force.com platform. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050216/SFW105LOGO) Freely
available at http://developer.force.com/, the Force.com IDE
provides developers with tools to customize, integrate and build
cloud computing applications on the Force.com platform. Corporate
IT departments and ISVs alike can use the Force.com IDE to create
applications for use in existing Force.com platform deployments or
for distribution via the AppExchange. "The Eclipse-based Force.com
IDE accelerated the creation and implementation of our custom
development projects on Force.com," said Mike Bene, IT Systems
Architect at Advent Software. "Our IT department has found that
building apps in the cloud on Force.com has been demonstrably
faster than on a .NET environment." "Corporate IT departments can
now take full advantage of the power and sophistication of Eclipse
to build cloud computing applications on Force.com," said Adam
Gross, vice president, developer marketing, salesforce.com. "We are
excited to bring the benefits of Eclipse to the 125,000+ members of
the Force.com developer community for their application development
projects today, but also to help Eclipse developers eager to
embrace the possibilities of cloud computing. New Features of
Force.com IDE and New Developer Resources: The latest release of
the Eclipse IDE for Force.com development contains several new
features including: -- Apex Language Code Editor provides code
completion suggestions as they are typed for user-defined classes,
system classes, and schema objects -- Enhanced Metadata Support
adds Force.com Sites, Customer Portals, and Partner Portals to
Force.com IDE projects, as well as enhancements to Schema Objects,
Profiles, and Reports -- Upgrade Wizard seamlessly upgrades any
Force.com project created in previous supported versions of the IDE
Developers can find all the details in the Force.com IDE Release
Notes. First time users can follow these instructions to get coding
with the new Force.com IDE. Developers who want to learn more can
read An Introduction to the Force.com IDE or visit the Force.com
IDE home page. A video explaining cloud computing in layman's terms
is available here: http://www.salesforce.com/cloudcomputing/.
Developer Tools for Connecting the Clouds at developer.force.com
The Force.com IDE is available for free at
http://developer.force.com/, salesforce.com's developer Web site
that provides the community, tools and resources to help developers
build cloud computing applications on the Force.com platform.
Developer.force.com has toolkits for most popular development
environments, languages and frameworks -- including AJAX, Eclipse,
Flex, Java, .NET, PHP, Ruby on Rails, and more. Developers can also
find toolkits and resources to connect their Force.com applications
with other cloud computing services from Amazon, Google and
Facebook to create entirely new applications in the cloud. About
salesforce.com Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing
company. The company's portfolio of SaaS applications, including
its award-winning CRM, available at
http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has revolutionized the ways
that customers manage and share business information over the
Internet. The company's Force.com PaaS enables customers,
developers and partners to build powerful on-demand applications
that deliver the benefits of multi-tenancy across the enterprise.
Applications built on the Force.com platform, available at
http://www.force.com/, can be easily shared, exchanged and
installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com's Force.com
AppExchange marketplace available at
http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/. As of January 31, 2009,
salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately
55,400 customers including Allianz Commercial, Dell, Dow Jones
Newswires, Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, and SunTrust Banks.
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based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com
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and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol
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