The initial code for the Higgins Project was written by
Paul Trevithick in the summer of 2003. In 2004 the effort became part of SocialPhysics.org, a collaboration between Paul and Mary Ruddy, of Azigo , (formerly Parity Communications, Inc.), and Meristic, and John Clippinger, at the
Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Higgins, under its original name
Eclipse Trust Framework, was accepted into the
Eclipse Foundation in early 2005. Mary and Paul are the project co-leads.
IBM and
Novell's participation in the project was announced in early 2006. Higgins has received technology contributions from
IBM,
Novell,
Oracle,
CA, Serena,
Google, eperi GmbH as well as from several other firms and individuals. Version 1.0 was released in February 2008. As of 2019 Eclipse Higgins is archived, meaning that it is an inactive project. ==See also==