Coalevo is a non-profit project that pursues the creation of a community communication platform. Principal design goals are modularity, extensibility and scaleability. The base elements and services are implemented in Java and on top of OSGi.

Coalevo is an effort to create a community platform with a modular and extensible architecture (Java & OSGi). It's alive for about 18 months. Koders has recently indexed large part of the codebase exposing some impressive statistics: 44335 Lines of Java Code 8083 Lines of XML 57.28 Man months (!)

JBones is an automatic and customizable deployment engine

Equinox is an implementation of the OSGi R4 core framework specification, a set of bundles that implement various optional OSGi services and other infrastructure for running OSGi-based systems. More generally, the goal of the Equinox project is to be a first class OSGi community and foster the vision of Eclipse as a landscape of bundles. As part of this, it is responsible for developing and delivering the OSGi framework implementation used for all of Eclipse. In addition. the project is open

Eclipse is a java-based tool platform – an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular. This has meant that there is a large base of support for using Eclipse as a general development platform, with many plugins being developed and many derivative IDEs or distributions being made for use with specialized niches in mind. Some Eclipse plugins: java2script Subclipse flow4j Eclipse Derivatives: Aptana EasyEclipse See Also: NetBeans (see Eclipse vs Net