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The Eclipse platform is a generic foundation for an IDE. That is, the platform is an IDE without any particular programming language in mind. You can create generic projects, edit files in a generic text editor, and share the projects and files with
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a Concurrent Versions System (CVS) server. The platform is essentially a glorified version of a file-system browser. [Less]
Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like Make, but without Make's wrinkles.
Subclipse is an Eclipse Team Provider plug-in that provides support for Subversion to the Eclipse IDE. Subclipse includes support for all Subversion commands and features and is a mature project with an established user community.
The JDT project provides the tool plug-ins that implement a Java IDE supporting the development of any Java application, including Eclipse plug-ins. It adds a Java project nature and Java perspective to the Eclipse Workbench as well as a number of
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views, editors, wizards, builders, and code merging and refactoring tools. The JDT project allows Eclipse to be a development environment for itself. [Less]
The Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) project extends the Eclipse platform with tools for developing J2EE Web applications. The WTP project includes the following tools: source editors for HTML, Javascript, CSS, JSP, SQL, XML, DTD, XSD, and WSDL;
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graphical editors for XSD and WSDL; J2EE project natures, builders, and models and a J2EE navigator; a Web service wizard and explorer, and WS-I Test Tool [Less]
The PDT project is working towards providing a PHP Development Tools framework for the Eclipse platform. This project will encompass all development components necessary to develop PHP and will facilitate extensibility. It will leverage the existing Web Tools Project in providing developers with PHP capabilities.
Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. Its purpose is to automate the process of checking Java code, and to spare humans of this task.
FindBugs looks for bugs in Java programs. It can detect a variety of common coding mistakes, including thread synchronization problems, misuse of API methods, etc. It is written in the GJ dialect of Java, and will run on any Java VM compatible with Sun's JDK 1.4.0 or later. It includes both GUI (Swing) and commandline frontends.
Mylyn is a Task-Focused Interface for Eclipse that reduces information overload and makes multi-tasking easy. It does this by making tasks a first class part of Eclipse, and integrating rich and offline editing for repositories such as Bugzilla
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, Trac, and JIRA. Once your tasks are integrated, Mylyn monitors your work activity to identify information relevant to the task-at-hand, and uses this task context to focus the Eclipse UI on the interesting information, hide the uninteresting, and automatically find what's related. This puts the information you need to get work done at your fingertips and improves productivity by reducing searching, scrolling, and navigation. By making task context explicit Mylyn also facilitates multitasking, planning, reusing past efforts, and sharing expertise. [Less]
PMD is a Java source code analyzer. It finds unused variables, empty catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and more. It includes CPD, a tool to detect chunks of identical code.
PHPEclipse integrates full PHP development support in the Eclipse IDE by providing you with editor, code formatter and checker, debugger support and other features.
Web development software built on Eclipse. Has gotten over 3000 diggs and 1.9 million downloads. Has been called Dreamweaver killer. Has XHTML, CSS, AJAX, Javascript, and FTP support, and many more features. A must have to all web developers!
Maven Integration for Eclipse makes it easy to use Maven build and project comprehension tool in Eclipse.
It provides Maven POM editor, quick search in remote Maven repositories, Maven-based dependency management and automatic downloading of
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required dependencies and sources, launching Maven from within Eclipse, creating new projects using Maven archetypes, materializing projects using Maven metadata, WTP and AJDT support and more. [Less]
The CDT is Eclipse's C/C++ Development Tooling project. It is a world class C/C++ IDE that also serves as a platform for others to provide value added tooling for C/C++ developers.
Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform) is a set of plug-ins added to the Eclipse platform for creating Rich Client Applications. These plug-ins are part of the Eclipse offering in the Runtime, SWT, JFace, and Workbench.
Python Development Environment (Python IDE plugin for Eclipse). Features editor, code completion, refactoring, outline view, debugger, and other goodies - check http://pydev.sf.net)
The Subversive project is a brand new Eclipse plug-in that provides Subversion support. From a user point of view, Subversive provides Subversion support similar to CVS support, which is already part of the standard Eclipse platform.
The Eclipse Modeling Framework is a framework and code generation facility for building tools and other applications based on a structured data model.
A seamless, aspect-oriented extension to the Java programming language. Provides clean modularization of crosscutting concerns, such as error checking and handling, synchronization, context-sensitive behavior, performance optimizations, monitoring and logging, debugging support, and multi-object protocols.
SimpleTest is a unit tester, Web tester, and dynamic mock objects framework for PHP. The test structure is similar to JUnit/PHPUnit. Used as a Web tester, you can navigate sites and submit forms as if you were using a Web browser.
The Eclipse Checkstyle plug-in integrates the Checkstyle Java code auditor into the Eclipse IDE. The plug-in provides real-time feedback to the user about violations of rules that check for coding style and possible error prone code constructs.
From a code point of view, Equinox is an implementation of the OSGi R4 core framework specification, a set of bundles that implement various optional OSGi services and other infrastructure for running OSGi-based systems.
More generally, the goal
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of the Equinox project is to be a first class OSGi community and foster the vision of Eclipse as a landscape of bundles. [Less]
The Eclipse Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) provides a generative component and runtime infrastructure for developing graphical editors based on EMF and GEF. The project aims to provide these components, in addition to exemplary tools for select domain models which illustrate its capabilities.
The Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) allows developers to create a rich graphical editor from an existing application model. GEF consists of 2 plug-ins. The org.eclipse.draw2d plug-in provides a layout and rendering toolkit for displaying graphics.
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The developer can then take advantage of the many common operations provided in GEF and/or extend them for the specific domain. GEF employs an MVC (model-view-controller) architecture which enables simple changes to be applied to the model from the view.
GEF is completely application neutral and provides the groundwork to build almost any application, including but not limited to: activity diagrams, GUI builders, class diagram editors, state machines, and even WYSIWYG text editors. [Less]
BIRT is an open source, Eclipse-based reporting system that integrates with your application to produce compelling reports for web, PDF and other formats.
RSSOwl is a wise SWT-based news aggregator. Its search feature lets you hunt down the best RSS/RDF/Atom feeds on the Web, and then organize and share your feeds with agility. Other features include an integrated browser; AmphetaRate, for acquiring
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news tailored to your tastes; full-text searching through headlines and descriptions; export feed summaries to PDF, RTF, and HTML; the ability to import or export OPML; the ability to exchange collections with others by importing or exporting subscriptions; the ability to import or export user data to and from other machines; automatic newsfeed updating; and much more. [Less]
Eclipse Dynamic Languages Toolkit (DLTK) is a tool for vendors, researchers, and end-users who rely on dynamic languages. DLTK is comprised of a set of extensible frameworks designed to reduce the complexity of building full featured development
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environments for dynamic languages such as PHP and Perl.
Besides a set of frameworks DLTK provides exemplary Tcl, Ruby, and Python development environments ready to use out of the box. [Less]
The Model Development Tools (MDT) project focuses on big "M" modeling within the Modeling project. Its purpose is twofold:
1. To provide an implementation of industry standard metamodels.
2. To provide exemplary tools for developing models based on those metamodels
Combined with the Model Driven Architecture approach (MDA), Acceleo is currently the most powerful code generator tool of its generation for Model Driven Development (MDD) and Model Driven Engineering (MDE).
Acceleo is easy to use, provide "on the shelves" generators (JEE, .Net, Php...) and template editors for Eclipse.
Q is an Apache Maven plugin for Eclipse that will let you use Maven from the Eclipse IDE
This plugin better integrates the development and building processes by bringing Maven into the Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
The plugin is moving to Eclipse Foundation as Eclipse IAM