Zend, a major contributor to PHP, has helped launched the Eclipse PHP Development Tools 1.0 (PDT)project this week. Since PDT is built on the Eclipse framework, hundreds of Eclipse plug-ins can be used immediately by PHP developers. This project has been in development for two years and includes contributions from Zend, IBM and others. Paul Krill has more details in his news story. While many think of Eclipse as Zend, a major contributor to PHP, has helped launched the Eclipse PHP Development Tools 1.0 (PDT)project this week. Since PDT is built on the Eclipse framework, hundreds of Eclipse plug-ins can be used immediately by PHP developers. This project has been in development for two years and includes contributions from Zend, IBM and others. Paul Krill has more details in his news story.While many think of Eclipse as a Java IDE (and maybe one of the best) it’s actually a framework for any type of tool or IDE and has been adopted for hundreds of different projects with contributions from companies including the likes of IBM, SAP, Wind River, Actuate, Intel, BEA, BlackDuck, CapeClear, MySQL, SAS and Tibco. There’s also a wide range of projects from Enterprise Reporting with BIRT to embedded mobile development. There’s even a Rich Client Platform that’s part of Eclipse.So if you still think Eclipse is just Java, go over to www.eclipse.org and take a look at all that’s available. For those in the bay area, the upcoming Zend Conference Oct 8-11 will have coverage of the Eclipse PDT project as well as the Zend Framework. More on that in a later post. Open Source