Abstract: This chapter explores the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE). Eclipse is a kind of universal tool platform—an open, extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular. It provides a feature-rich development environment that allows the developer to efficiently create tools that integrate seamlessly into the Eclipse platform. Eclipse itself is not an IDE, but is rather an open platform for developing IDEs and rich client applications. Eclipse is the most professionally executed open source project. It is well thought out and meticulously implemented. While it has tremendous power and flexibility, the most common operations are relatively simple and intuitive. The documentation, while still reference in nature and not tutorial, is nevertheless readable, and accurate for the most part. The plug-in mechanism makes Eclipse infinitely extensible. This opens up opportunities for both open source and commercial extensions to address a wide range of applications. The chapter also lists a couple of repositories of Eclipse plug-ins.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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