ECESIS Eclipse Community Education Project An Eclipse Technology Research Subproject

We are pleased to announce the winners of the International Challenge for Eclipse:

Top Winner - Student Category

The team of Gabriela Perez and Pablo Pesce, from the Universidad de La Plata, in Buenos Aires , Argentina . Their teacher, Dr. Claudia Pons, has extensive experience with Eclipse, and was awarded an IBM Eclipse Innovation Grant in 2003. The team's plug-in, called PAMPERO, is an educational tool to support a model-driven software development process using graphical notation.

Other winners in the Student category are:

• The team of Martin Hans Davidsson and Ryan Anthony Sturmer, from North Carolina State University ( Raleigh , North Carolina , USA )
• The team of Philip Mayer and Andreas Meiner, from the University of Hannover ( Hannover , Germany )
• Xinjie Zhang, from Ecole National Supérieure de l'Electronique et de ses Applications - ENSEA (Cergy, France)

Top Winner - Open Category

Rajkumar Madhuram, from Oceanside , California . His plug-in, FireAntz, provides a visual interface for displaying and executing Ant buildfiles and their dependencies. Ant is an open source Java-based tool for managing the files that together make up a program or application.

Other winners in the Open category are:

• Didier Besset, from Grenolier , Switzerland
• Cheng Dong Li, from Albany , California
• Peter Nehrer, from Westborough , Massachusetts

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