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The Eclipse Foundation is looking to bridge desktop- and cloud-based development with its Project Flux, driven by technologists from Pivotal and IBM and intended to produce an architecture and infrastructure for integrating development tools across the desktop, browsers, and servers.

"You can connect your Web-based tools to your desktop tools," said Eclipse Executive Director Mike Milinkovich. The back end of Flux could be described as "Dropbox for your code," he said, and code can be stored in the cloud and can be interacted with via a desktop- or browser-based IDE.

Project co-leader Martin Lippert, of Pivotal, said Flux is intended to provide "a fully smooth transition between the desktop IDE experience and the cloud tooling." By bringing together cloud and desktop tools, Flux addresses a problem in which there has been a poor developer experience in the cloud, project co-leader John Arthorne, of IBM, said. "You have all these great development tools on your desktop, but your runtime is over in the cloud."

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