by Udaya Shamendra

I think if you all familiar with any programming language, you may use some kind of IDE (Integrated Development Environment) There are so many IDE’s for various language as well as open source and commercial IDEs.

Eclipse is a multi-language software development environment comprising an IDE and a plug-in system to extend it. It is written in Java and can be used to develop applications in Java and other languages such as  C, C++, COBOL, Python, Perl, PHP, and others. The IDE is often called,

• Eclipse ADT for Ada
• Eclipse CDT for C
• Eclipse JDT for Java
• Eclipse PDT for PHP.

Cross-Platform
Eclipse is cross platform IDE and it is works well on Linux, Mac, Windows and some major platforms.

2004:The Eclipse Foundation was created
Eclipse began as an IBM Canada project. It was developed by Object Technology International (OTI) as a Java-based replacement for the Smalltalk based IDE products. In November 2001, a consortium was formed to further the development of Eclipse as open source. In January 2004, the Eclipse Foundation was created.

License
Eclipse was originally released under the Common Public License, but was later relicensed under the Eclipse Public License.

Both licenses are free software licenses, but are incompatible with the GNU General Public License.

Eclipse Releases
Eclipse 3.0 -Released in 28 June 2004
Eclipse 3.1- Released in 28 June 2005
Callisto – Released in 30 June 2006 |project named -Callisto projects
Europa – Released in 29 June 2007 |project named Europa projects
Ganymede -Released in 25 June 2008 |project named Ganymede projects
Galileo- Released in 24 June 2009 |project named Galileo projects
Helios - Released in 23 June 2010 |project named Helios projects

Extended the Eclipse platform by adding different plug-ins:
You can use so hundreds of plug-in available in Eclipse plug-in directory for extend the ability and power of the Eclipse for multipurpose.

Following are the list of Eclipse Major Plugins

• Adobe Flex Builder, Adobe IDE based on Eclipse for building Flex applications for the Flash Platform
• Apache Directory Studio, LDAP Browser and Directory client   

• Bostech ChainBuilder ESB provides an easy to use graphical method for creating JBI Service Assemblies for an Enterprise Service Bus architecture
• CityEngine procedural based city generator.
• FDT Development Tool for Flash and Flex
• Google Plugin for Eclipse Plug-in for developing Google Web Toolkit and Google App Engine applications.

•  Mentor Graphics EDGE Developers Suite is an integrated embedded software development environment that brings together project manager, source editors, compiler tools, debugger and profiler - plus a whole lot more - in one easy-to-use environment.
• Oracle Real Time Decision - Decision Studio, an integration platform that allows users to define connectivity of Oracle RTD with all external systems, including data sources and target business processes.
• Parasoft SOAtest is a full-lifecycle quality platform for ensuring secure, reliable, and compliant business processes. It facilitates quality governance, environment management, end-to-end testing (of operations that may span across services, ESBs, web interfaces, databases, EJBs, and more).
• PHP Development Tools (or simple PDT) is an open source IDE with basic functions for editing and debugging PHP application.
• PHPEclipse is an open source PHP IDE with integrated debugging, developed and supported by a committed community.
• Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio

• Zen Coding, A set of plugins for HTML and CSS hi-speed coding
• Zend Studio An IDE used for developing PHP websites and web services.

Eclipse Process Framework Architecture

EPF Composer is an open-source tool platform designed for process engineers and project managers to author, tailor and publish methods and processes for development organizations and projects.

Ref : www.eclipse.org/epf/composer_architecture/

This month’s Video
Eclipse Galileo - Installation EPIC Plugin
This video demonstrate how to install plugin to your eclipse IDE: watch it! Have FUN with FOSS.

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