Eclipse
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Description
Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/) is *the* standard integrated development environment for software development but has potential for use in so many more fields.
According to the eclipse foundation:
- Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. A large and vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities, research institutions and individuals extend, complement and support the Eclipse platform.
Features
The Eclipse framework is written in java and provides a comprehensive plugin capability supporting areas such as:
- Software development
- Support for C, C++, Java, Python, PHP, Perl, etc...
- Source code editors
- Compilers
- Debugging
- Document editing and management
- Modeling
- Profiling
- Revision Control
- Databases
Frequently Asked Questions
If you are new to Eclipse, read the Eclipse Newcomers FAQ (http://www.eclipse.org/home/newcomers.php).
Online Support Forums
- Eclipse Community Page (http://www.eclipse.org/community/)
- Eclipse Newsgroups (http://www.eclipse.org/newsgroups/)
Documentation
You probably don't want documentation about Eclipse itself but rather about some particular plugin for eclipse. You probably want to try:
- Plugin Central (http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/) - more than 1000 plugins at the time of writing
Mailing Lists
You probably want to look at the mailing lists for the plugin of interest. Again try Plugin Central (http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/).
Screenshot
http://freshmeat.net/screenshots/18096/19038/
Links and Examples
Eclipse is phenomenally popular. A cursory websearch will turn up hundreds of articles and stories.
