Searching for Private Orion – a browser-based open tool integration platform

Orion is not a set of Java plug-ins which run in the existing Eclipse Java IDE, according to Eclipse head  Mike Milinkovich. It is instead a browser-based open tool integration platform which is “entirely focused on developing for the web, in the web.” Tools can be written in JavaScript and run in the browser. On the server side, Orion is an OSGi-based Java app that runs in a Jetty container. Milinkovich posits this as a major new code undertaking for Eclipse, and it bears watching. In the last ten years, the Eclipse army has done nothing less than revolutionize the way tools are applied to services – and there is more in store.