Eclipse is on the mark having separate ALM projects, said Carey Schwaber, an analyst at Forrester Research. "I think they do need to be two separate [projects]," she said. "There's clear synergies; there's no question."

Whereas ALF is about coarsely grained workflow integration and how tools interact with one another, Corona is centered on how code assets interrelate, such as how source code on a mainframe could connect with code on a distributed platform, Schwaber said. With Corona, developers using different client applications can share software assets using different tools, Schwaber said.

Other developments at the show center on the Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform).

"The goal of RCP is really to be this pervasive platform that ISVs and enterprises use to create end-user desktop applications," Skerrett said.

The Eclipse Enterprise Content Management for RCP Project, led by Nuxeo, is being unveiled on top of RCP. The project involves integrating applications with a content management system. It features version control and workflow all built on RCP.