Innoopract ships Yoxos distribution Eclipse-based tools provider Innoopract is shipping Yoxos, a $19.95 Eclipse 3.0 distribution that is equipped with popular plug-ins to ease the load on open source developers.The company is positioning Yoxos as a solution for developers who want to leverage open source offerings but cannot spend weeks evaluating dozens of plug-ins to keep their environment up to date. Yoxos spares developers from having to find, download, and install plug-ins and manage versions of plug-ins, according to Innoopract. The goal of the product is to provide distribution services to manage and install custom development environments from a broad set of open source offerings, according to Innoopract.While acknowledging the Eclipse IDE itself is available as a free download, an Innoopract official stressed that the Yoxos package provides value-added functionality in terms of ease of use and time savings. “You’re paying for the ease and convenience and the saving of time of gathering all these different plug-ins that you want,” said Eric von der Heyden, managing director of Innoopract. Yoxos extends the functionality of the Eclipse IDE, he said. Yoxos, he said, “gives the Eclipse users Eclipse and a wide variety of open source plug-ins from a single source.”More than 30 pre-tested plug-ins are included, providing support for elements such as programming languages, databases, UI development, and modeling, von der Heyden said. Also featured are plug-ins for “managed scenarios,” which are bundled plug-ins for a specific task such as Web development.The Yoxos plug-in installer enables users to choose specific plug-ins or bundles or create custom sets. With Yoxos, any code for extensions to the open source plug-ins will be donated back to the community. Yoxos is available on CD or for download at www.yoxos.com Software DevelopmentDevelopment Tools