Eclipse is an open-source Integrated Development Environment (IDE) supported by IBM. Eclipse is a popular script creator for Java application development (Java SE and Java EE) and Android apps.

IBM next week will offer early versions of plug-ins for the upcoming Stinger release of IBM DB2 Universal Database, which would link the database to the Eclipse open source toolkit.

Object-relational mapping represents the future of how Java developers interact with a database, Greene said. “It’s much easier than the old way of doing things, involving a much lower-level ...