A.2. Resources

The following is a short list of Web links for Eclipse-related plug-ins, projects, and information. First, there is the Eclipse.org Web site, which should always be your first stop for Eclipse-related information. Following that are a few of the larger sites providing Eclipse-related information and lists of plug-ins. At the end is a smattering of sites containing plug-ins, projects, notes, and information of varying quality that caught our eye.

A.2.1. Eclipse.org

www.eclipse.org/The place to start concerning Eclipse and Eclipse-related technology for downloads, documentation, articles, mailing lists, and more. The main projects at Eclipse.org are further divided into subprojects:

• The Eclipse ProjectThe primary platform and its tools

• PlatformFrameworks and common services

• JDTJava development tools

• PDEPlug-in development environment

• Equinoxan OSGi framework

• The Eclipse Tools ProjectSecondary tools for Eclipse

• CDTC/C++ development tools

• GEFGraphical editor framework

• COBOLA fully functional COBOL IDE

• EMFA Java/XML framework for generating models

• VEVisual editor; Framework for creating GUI builders

• UML2Framework for UML 2.0 modeling tools

• The Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP)J2EE Web Applications

• WSTWeb Standard Tools

• JSTJ2EE Standard Tools

• JSFJavaServer Faces Tools

• Test & Performance Tools (TPTP)Testing and Performance

• TPTP Platform

• Monitoring tools

• Testing tools

• Tracing and profiling tools

• The Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools Project (BIRT)

• The Eclipse Data Tools Platform Project

• Device Software Development Platform (DSDP)

• The Eclipse Technology ProjectEclipse-based technology incubators

• AJDTAspectJ Development Tools Project

• ECESISEclipse Community Education Project

• ECFEclipse Communications Framework

• Generative Model TransformerTools for model-driven software development

The Eclipse.org Web site also has a community page (www.eclipse.org/community/index.html) that lists upcoming events, courses, and links to related Web sites containing more information on Eclipse.

A.2.2. Eclipse Plug-in Central

www.eclipseplugincentral.comA site dedicated to supporting the growth of the Eclipse community by helping developers locate, evaluate, and acquire plug-ins that can help them deliver their projects faster, better, and cheaper. Eclipse Plug-in Central (EPiC) adds value by offering marketplace updates, reviews, ratings, news, forums, community listings for products and services, and support for the Eclipse Foundation.

A.2.3. Eclipse plug-in site

www.eclipse-plugins.info/A site containing lists of plug-ins sliced and diced by category and hit count (a very rough popularity statistic). Each plug-in has a short description, a place for anyone to comment, statistics, and a link to the plug-in's home page.

A.2.4. Eclipse wiki wiki

eclipse-wiki.infoA wiki wiki site containing information about Eclipse gleaned from newsgroups, mailing lists, and the like. The availability of this site has been unpredictable, but when available, it contains a wealth of information.

A.2.5. EclipseCon

www.eclipsecon.orgThe Web site for information about the EclipseCon technical conference.

A.2.6. ANTLR plug-in for Eclipse

antlreclipse.sourceforge.netA plug-in providing support for the parser generator ANTLR, including an editor and builder.

A.2.7. Bugzilla plug-in

kered.org/project-eclipse_bugzilla_pluginProof of concept for integrating Bugzilla into Eclipse. Looks promising, but we have not tried it.

A.2.8. Coloring editor

www.gstaff.org/coloreditor/A free syntax color highlighting editor for Eclipse that uses JEdit's syntax highlighting mode files. There are several other projects and plug-ins on this site, including cSpy and a widget/plug-in inspector.

A.2.9. Eclipse Easter eggs

mmoebius.gmxhome.de/eclipse/eastereggs.htmA list of links and resources for Eclipse, plus a page of Eclipse Easter eggs for fun.

A.2.10. IBM Alphaworks on Eclipse

www.alphaworks.ibm.com/eclipseA site filled with Eclipse-related technology and articles from the IBM Alphaworks labs.

A.2.11. IBM Eclipse research

www.research.ibm.com/eclipse/A source of information regarding IBM grants and programs centered on Eclipse-based technology.

A.2.12. PHP plug-in for Eclipse

sourceforge.net/projects/phpeclipseAn open source plug-in providing support for PHP, structured query language (SQL), HTML, and Jtidy. It includes syntax highlighting, command completion, and a preview of pages.

A.2.13. QNX's Momentics

www.qnx.com/products/ps_momentics/An IDE build on Eclipse for writing code around a real-time OS.

A.2.14. QuickShare: XP programming for Eclipse

www.scs.carleton.ca/~skaegi/cdt/A lightweight code sharing plug-in for XP-like pair programming in a distributed environment.

A.2.15. Sangam: XP programming for Eclipse

sangam.sourceforge.net/Another code sharing plug-in for XP-like pair programming in a distributed environment.