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The Eclipse Workbench is an open source platform, designed by IBM and released to the open source community. It is an open, portable, universal tooling platform that provides frameworks, services and tools for building tools.

In essence the workbench provides the tool infrastructure. With this infrastructure in place, the tool builders are able to focus on the actual building of their tools. The workbench has been designed for maximum flexibility to support the development of tools for new technologies that may merge in the future.

Industry leaders Borland, IBM, Merchant, QNX Software Systems, Rational Software, RedHat, SuSE, TogetherSoft, and WebGain formed the initial eclipse.org board of directors and began work on the Eclipse open source project.

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http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Eclipse_FAQs

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There are hundreds of plugins which you can add to Eclipse, for example plugins for testing, code management, uml, xml, etc. The Eclipse plugins can be found at: http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/

Quick guides







Installing JBoss-IDE 1.2.0 on Eclipse 2.1.1



Information
JBoss-IDE is a set of plug-ins for Eclipse which provides the following features :
  • The debugging and monitoring of JBoss servers and the control of their life cycle (start/stop).
  • A very comfortable and sophisticated support for XDoclet (completion and generation).
  • An easy way to configure the packaging layout of archives (packed or exploded)
  • A simple way to deploy the packaged and/or exploded archive to a JBoss server
This guide describes how to install JBoss-IDE using the Eclipse Install/Update manager.
JBoss-IDE is only available through the Eclipse Install/Update manager.
The latest JBoss-IDE version can be downloaded from:
http://jboss.org/products/jbosside
The JBoss-IDE is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (GPL)

Operating system used
Windows XP Home Edition Version 5.1 SP 2

Software prerequisites
Eclipse version 2.1.0 or higher
JBoss 3.0 or higher

Procedure
  1. Start Eclipse.

  2. Select the Install/Update Perspective via:
    Install/Update Perspective button
    or
    Help > Software Updates > Update Manager
    or
    Window > Open Perspective > Install/Update

  3. In the Feature Update view, select New > Site Bookmark

    Install/Update Perspective

  4. Enter an update site:
    Name: JBOSS_IDE (example)
    URL: http://jboss.sourceforge.net/jbosside/updates

    New Site Bookmark



  5. Open the newly created node (JBOSS_IDE) and its child node called JBoss-IDE 1.0. Select the version (JBoss-IDE 1.2.0) to install and in the Preview view more information can be found. If this selected version is not installed the Preview view shows an Install Now button.

    Note 1:
    If you are behind a proxy:
    Select: Window > Preferences > Install/Update
    Select: Enable HTTP Proxy connection
    Insert values for Host Address and Port

    Note 2:
    To check for JBoss-IDE updates:
    Select: Help > Software Updates > New Updates
    Via Window > Preferences > Install/Update you can choose for which changes of versions Eclipse is supposed to look.

    Eclipse Install Plugin

  6. Press the Install Now button.

    JBoss-IDE 1.2.0 adds following directories to Eclipse:
    ECLIPSE_HOME/features/org.jboss.ide.eclipse_1.2.0
    ECLIPSE_HOME/plugins/org.apache.xalan_2.4.1
    ECLIPSE_HOME/plugins/org.jboss.ide.eclipse.core_1.2.0
    ECLIPSE_HOME/plugins/org.jboss.ide.eclipse.deployer.core_1.2.0
    ECLIPSE_HOME/plugins/org.jboss.ide.eclipse.deployer.ui_1.2.0
    ECLIPSE_HOME/plugins/org.jboss.ide.eclipse.launcher.core_1.2.0
    ECLIPSE_HOME/plugins/org.jboss.ide.eclipse.launcher.ui_1.2.0
    ECLIPSE_HOME/plugins/org.jboss.ide.eclipse.packaging.core_1.2.0
    ECLIPSE_HOME/plugins/org.jboss.ide.eclipse.packaging.ui_1.2.0
    ECLIPSE_HOME/plugins/org.jboss.ide.eclipse.ui_1.2.0
    ECLIPSE_HOME/plugins/org.jboss.ide.eclipse.xdoclet.assist_1.2.0
    ECLIPSE_HOME/plugins/org.jboss.ide.eclipse.xdoclet.core_1.2.0
    ECLIPSE_HOME/plugins/org.jboss.ide.eclipse.xdoclet.help_1.2.0
    ECLIPSE_HOME/plugins/org.jboss.ide.eclipse.xdoclet.run_1.2.0
    ECLIPSE_HOME/plugins/org.jboss.ide.eclipse.xdoclet.ui_1.2.0