AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) tools vendor Helmi Technologies has joined the Eclipse Foundation as an Add-In Provider member.Maker of the Open Source RIA Platform, Helmi is making its technology and source code available to the Eclipse community. “We are excited to be joining the Eclipse Foundation,” said Jorden Woods, CEO of Helmi Technologies in the U.S., in a statement released by the company. “Our goal when developing our open source product was to allow companies to leverage their development team’s knowledge base and shorten the learning curve to maximize productivity. We share the same vision as the Eclipse Foundation. which is to enable developers to easily create derivative works from our platform in an open source environment.” The Helmi platform, positioned for Web 2.0 deployments, is available for download here.Add-In Provider members are companies that view Eclipse as an important part of their corporate and product strategy, Eclipse said. These members want to participate in the development of the Eclipse ecosystem. Software Development