As is already indicated by version 0.9, which has just been released, Eclipse 4 will incorporate several familiar web technologies and put them to new uses. The Eclipse development environment has become a very popular open source project.

Find out how to build a plug-in for Eclipse and Rational Application Developer V7. You can use this plug-in to define snippets that let you add code that follows enterprise standards. Similar to the Snippets view that comes with the Web Tools Project, this plug-in allows you to drag and drop pieces of code into the editor.

Eclipse is a new world for Microsoft® Visual Studio® developers, and getting started with Eclipse can be confusing. New concepts, such as plug-in architecture, workspace-centric project structure, and automatic build can seem counterintuitive at first. Learn about these and other differences between the two environments, so that you can begin to feel at home with Eclipse.

The Free Software Foundation and Eclipse Foundation have released guidance on how each organisations licenses, GPL and EPL, interact with each other. At the core of the debate is the question "Can you GPL an Eclipse plug-in?"

This article describes the various refactorings available in Eclipse Java™ Development Tools (JDT), including what each refactoring does, when to use it, and how to use it. It also explores the refactoring script functionality in Eclipse, which allows library developers to share code refactorings with their clients.

An Eclipse plug-in that enables browser-based access to Eclipse.!!!

Learn the new features introduced in Eclipse Galileo for using the new toString() generator. This tip for generating code uses new features introduced in Eclipse Galileo. However, you can use some of the techniques covered here — such as generating getters and setters — in older versions of Eclipse, such as Ganymede, as well.

A survey from the Eclipse Foundation, which oversees development of the open source Eclipse IDE, shows that 32.7 percent of respondents use Linux as their primary desktop development system, up almost 6 points from 2009. Meanwhile, Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distro among Eclipse developers.

In the past, I've always shied away from integrated development environments (IDEs), but I recently had a strong enough motivation to finally learn how to use Eclipse - one of the most widely-used free software IDEs available today.