The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that acts as the steward of Eclipse, an open source community working to build a development platform consisting of the frameworks, tools and run-times needed for "building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle." The most well-known of the Eclipse projects is the Eclipse platform, a multi-language software development environment and IDE.The Eclipse Foundation's stated aim is to cultivate both the community and "an ecosystem of complementary products and services." It is considered a "third generation" open-source organisation.