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The Eclipse Foundation on Monday will unveil a cloud initiative to better accommodate browser-based software development.

Backed by companies including IBM, Pivotal, and SAP, the Eclipse Cloud Development top-level project aims to provide a platform for running tools for development in the cloud.

"This is about developer tools migrating from the desktop to the cloud," Eclipse Executive Director Mike Milinkovich said in an interview. "We see a trend where more and more developers are interested in using browser-based tools where their development assets are stored in the cloud."

The effort features four projects, including the pre-existing Orion projectled by IBM. Orion provides an IDE for interpreted languages such as JavaScript. Other projects include Che, led by Codenvy and providing a cloud-based development environment, particularly for compiled languages such as Java; Dirigible, led by SAP and featuring rapid application development for database-style applications; and Flux, from Pivotal, which integrates desktop and Web-based tools so changes in a desktop IDE are reflected in Web-based tools. Flux was discussed by Eclipse earlier this year, while Che and Dirigible are new.

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