The Heart of Eclipse

  • Authors:
  • Dan Rubel

  • Affiliations:
  • Instantiations

  • Venue:
  • Queue - System Evolution
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A look inside and extensible plug-in architectureECLIPSE is both an open, extensible development environment forbuilding software and an open, extensible application frameworkupon which software can be built. Considered the most popular JavaIDE, it provides a common UI model for working with tools andpromotes rapid development of modular features based on a plug-incomponent model. The EclipseFoundation designed the platform to run natively on multipleoperating systems, including Macintosh, Windows, and Linux,providing robust integration with each and providing rich clientsthat support the GUI interactions everyone is familiar with: dragand drop, cut and paste (clipboard), navigation, and customization.You can think of Eclipse as a "design center" supported by adevelopment team of 300 or more developers whom you can leveragewhen developing your own software.