PalmSource to Participate in EclipseCon 2005

Posted on March 1st, 2005 by John Reno

SUNNYVALE, California, Feb. 28, 2005 — (Press Release) PalmSource, Inc. (NASDAQ: PSRC), provider of Palm OS®, a leading operating system powering next generation phones and mobile devices including the palmOne, Inc. Treo 600 and Treo 650, today announced it is participating in EclipseCon 2005, March 1 - 2 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Burlingame, California. Located in booth 513, the Company will demonstrate Palm OS Developer Suite.

"Palm OS Developer Suite demonstrates PalmSource’s commitment to its 380,000-plus registered developers to provide best-in-class tools to create next-generation wireless applications for ARM-based Palm Powered™ phones and wireless mobile devices," said Dino Brusco, vice president of technical services at PalmSource. "We believe the suite simplifies the development process and allows for the creation of native applications that leverage the more than 100 new APIs in the new Palm OS® Cobalt SDK."

Palm OS Developer Suite

Palm OS® Developer Suite 1.1 is designed to enable the development of next generation multimedia and wireless applications for ARM- and 68K-based Palm Powered™ devices. Palm OS Developer Suite 1.1 includes an open source Integrated Development Environment (IDE) based on Eclipse, originally developed by IBM. Eclipse is a commercial-quality, best-in-class IDE with several hundred plug-in tools that support major software languages including C, C++, Java, and COBOL. Palm OS Developer Suite 1.1, is available free of charge to all PalmSource registered developers.

Key features of Palm OS Developer Suite 1.1 include:

Support for development of Palm OS Protein applications (x86 and ARM), 68K applications, and PACE Native Objects
Based on the open-source Eclipse IDE, version 3.0 and Eclipse C/C++ Developer Tools, version 2.0
Managed Make support eliminates need to manually edit makefiles
Integrated debugging support for Palm OS Simulators, Palm OS Emulator, and most devices with serial or USB connectivity
Standalone Palm OS Resource Editor with support for XRD resource format
Integrated build environment and command-line build tools bundled SDKs and simulators for Palm OS® Garnet (5.4 and earlier) and Palm OS® Cobalt (6.1)

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