Ten different projects ranging from the Eclipse Project, which features the group's popular IDE, to the Eclipse Data Tools Project will be released simultaneously. "The important thing here is [Callisto] is an event," said Eclipse Executive Director Mike Milinkovich.

"We're doing this ... to make it easier for organizations to adopt Eclipse technology," Milinkovich said. In the past, various releases of Eclipse software have been staggered, so ISVs had to wait for specific technologies they needed to work on projects, Milinkovich said. With Callisto, ISVs get all the technologies they need at the same time.

"Callisto's goal is to eliminate uncertainty about project version numbers, and thus to allow ecosystem members to start their own integration, cross-project, and cross-product testing efforts earlier," according to the Eclipse Callisto Web page (http://www.eclipse.org/projects/callisto.php).

Projects being released under the Callisto banner include:

-- Eclipse Project 3.2, featuring the plug-in-based development environment