Distributed enterprise system capabilities featured, including UI development The Eclipse Foundation announced on Monday availability of Eclipse Riena 1.0, a platform for developing multitier rich client applications based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform and the Eclipse Equinox OSGi implementation.Available for download, Riena offers a platform for developing distributed enterprise applications that simplify user interface development and integration of back-end systems, the foundation said. Riena features an OSGi-based Remote Services Component for building distributed client/server applications.[ Meanwhile, the Eclipse IDE is at a crossroads. ] “Projects like Riena help support the growth of Equinox and Eclipse RCP as a solution for developing enterprise applications,” said Eclipse executive Ddirector Mike Milinkovich in a statement.Components of Riena include remote services for communicating between OSGi components, Riena user interface and navigation components for developing the client user experience for business applications, and object transaction for isolating object-level changes on a client application before communicating changes to a server.Also featured in Riena are authentication and authorization capabilities to extend the Equinox security model, and client monitoring, which is a server component tracking client status in a distributed system. Riena has joined the coordinated release train of Eclipse projects called Galileo, due this June. The second release of Riena will include enhanced features and components for developing user interfaces and navigation, Eclipse said.Rich Client Platform features plug-ins to the Eclipse platform to build rich client Java applications. Software DevelopmentDevelopment Tools