Cape Clear Software announced it has become a member in the Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to implementation of a universal development platform.

Cape Clear's most recent product release provides a tooling environment for the end-to-end development of service oriented architectures (SOA) that is completely unified within the Eclipse environment. As a plug-in member of the Eclipse Foundation, Cape Clear will continue to build tools that extend the usefulness and reach of the Eclipse platform. Cape Clear intends to work with Eclipse open source initiatives to contribute new capabilities for a range of Eclipse activities, including the Eclipse Web Tools Platform, an Eclipse project conceived to simplify the development of Web-centric applications.

"Cape Clear's leadership in simplifying Web services development make them a welcome addition to the Eclipse ecosystem," said Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director, Eclipse Foundation. "Cape Clear's contribution to the Eclipse open source projects will be of great value to the Eclipse community."

Cape Clear Studio, a component of Cape Clear's latest release, Cape Clear 6.5, is a single, integrated toolset within the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment, including enhanced BPEL, XML/WSDL and Java development tools.

"Cape Clear Studio is a key component in our strategy to provide the fastest, simplest and most proven way to build SOA-based applications. In our effort to reduce the costs of application development, it is important for us to maximize the productivity of developers using the Cape Clear Studio," said Cape Clear's VP of Product Management, Jim Rivera. "Our involvement in the Eclipse community helps us accelerate the delivery of new tooling capabilities to the marketplace and ensure the success of a framework that has become a strategic part of our product offering."