Eclipse Sighting
No, note another lunar eclipse but a totally different Eclipse.
My mother-in-law is a Pampered Chef consultant and needed some help with their consultant application called “The Pampered Partner”. As I was mucking with it, I felt something familiar about how it started up, etc. Then I saw that it left some files called “.metadata” and also a file called “derby.log”.
After I figured out what was going on with the Pampered Partner, I did a Help-> About, and clicked the Plugins button. Yep — it was officially Eclipse. I told my mother-in-law that the Pampered Partner was a version of a program that I used everyday to write Java programs.
On the other hand, this means that the Pampered Partner is truly cross-platform, yet I don’t think they “support” anything but Windows. Yet I think you could hack it to run on any platform with a JVM.