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55-879: Eclipse is an integrated development environment (IDE) used in computer programming . It contains a base workspace and an extensible plug-in system for customizing the environment. It is the second-most-popular IDE for Java development, and, until 2016, was the most popular. Eclipse is written mostly in Java and its primary use is for developing Java applications, but it may also be used to develop applications in other programming languages via plug-ins, including Ada , ABAP , C , C++ , C# , Clojure , COBOL , D , Erlang , Fortran , Groovy , Haskell , HLASM , JavaScript , Julia , Lasso , Lua , NATURAL , Perl , PHP , PL/I , Prolog , Python , R , Rexx , Ruby (including Ruby on Rails framework), Rust , Scala , and Scheme . It can also be used to develop documents with LaTeX (via

110-516: A Java 8 or newer JRE/JDK is required to run Eclipse. Eclipse uses plug-ins to provide all the functionality within and on top of the run-time system. Its run-time system is based on Equinox , an implementation of the OSGi core framework specification. In addition to allowing the Eclipse Platform to be extended using other programming languages , such as C and Python , the plug-in framework allows

165-518: A TeXlipse plug-in) and packages for the software Mathematica . Development environments include the Eclipse Java development tools (JDT) for Java and Scala, Eclipse CDT for C/C++, and Eclipse PDT for PHP, among others. The initial codebase originated from IBM VisualAge . The Eclipse software development kit (SDK), which includes the Java development tools, is meant for Java developers. Users can extend its abilities by installing plug-ins written for

220-558: A complete development environment, capable of developing large programs such as the Linux kernel and its environment. In this sense, the entire Unix system functions as an IDE. The free software GNU toolchain (including GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), GNU Debugger (GDB), and GNU make ) is available on many platforms, including Windows. The pervasive Unix philosophy of "everything is a text stream" enables developers who favor command-line oriented tools to use editors with support for many of

275-509: A concrete implementation of some specified functionality. Visual programming is a usage scenario in which an IDE is generally required. Visual Basic allows users to create new applications by moving programming, building blocks, or code nodes to create flowcharts or structure diagrams that are then compiled or interpreted. These flowcharts often are based on the Unified Modeling Language . This interface has been popularized with

330-485: A manner consistent with a modern IDE. Maestro I is a product from Softlab Munich and was the world's first integrated development environment for software. Maestro I was installed for 22,000 programmers worldwide. Until 1989, 6,000 installations existed in the Federal Republic of Germany . Maestro was arguably the world leader in this field during the 1970s and 1980s. Today one of the last Maestro I can be found in

385-454: A parent project, are called Top Level Projects. The Eclipse Foundation is considered a "third generation" open-source organization, and is home to Jakarta EE , and over 425 open source projects, including runtimes , tools, and frameworks for a wide range of technology domains such as the internet of things (IoT), cloud and edge computing, automotive, systems engineering, digital ledger technologies, and open processor designs. The Foundation

440-426: A plug-in for DB Explorer, and many more. The Eclipse SDK includes the Eclipse Java development tools (JDT), offering an IDE with a built-in Java incremental compiler and a full model of the Java source files. This allows for advanced refactoring techniques and code analysis. The IDE also makes use of a workspace , in this case a set of metadata over a flat filespace allowing external file modifications as long as

495-470: A project was held in a compressed database using SCID techniques (somewhat like a zip file but in .dat). Individual classes could not be easily accessed, certainly not outside the tool. A team primarily at the IBM Cary, NC lab developed the new product as a Java-based replacement. In November 2001, a consortium was formed with a board of stewards to further the development of Eclipse as open-source software . It

550-637: A replacement for make rather than relying on any IDE features. Some Linux IDEs such as Geany attempt to provide a graphical front end to traditional build operations. On the various Microsoft Windows platforms, command-line tools for development are seldom used. Accordingly, there are many commercial and non-commercial products. However, each has a different design commonly creating incompatibilities. Most major compiler vendors for Windows still provide free copies of their command-line tools, including Microsoft ( Visual C++ , Platform SDK , .NET Framework SDK, nmake utility). IDEs have always been popular on

605-469: A single program in which all development is done. This program typically provides many features for authoring, modifying, compiling, deploying and debugging software. This contrasts with software development using unrelated tools, such as vi , GDB , GNU Compiler Collection , or make . One aim of the IDE is to reduce the configuration necessary to piece together multiple development utilities. Instead, it provides

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660-472: A theme of chemical elements . Photon represented a return to sun-themed names. As of 2018, the alphabetic scheme was abandoned in order to better align with the new Simultaneous Release strategy. Releases are named in the format YYYY-MM to reflect the quarterly releases, starting with version 4.9 named 2018-09. Since 2006, the Foundation has coordinated an annual Simultaneous Release . Each release includes

715-676: A trademark of a boPET film company, so the Eclipse Foundation changed the project name. Eclipse IDE features include text editor with syntax coloring, coding assistance, code completion , code refactoring , code analysis with "Quick fix" suggestions along with code debugging . Along with native support for OSGi, JPMS support has been added as of Java 9. Eclipse supports a rich selection of extensions, adding support for Python via PyDev , Android development via Google's ADT (superseded by Android Studio since 2015), JavaFX via e(fx)clipse, JavaScript , jQuery , and many others at

770-767: A variety of languages, wizards and built-in applications to simplify development, and tools and APIs to support deploying, running, and testing apps. The Modeling project contains all the official projects of the Eclipse Foundation focusing on model-based development technologies. All are compatible with the Eclipse Modeling Framework created by IBM. Those projects are separated into six categories: Application lifecycle management (ALM) and task management in Eclipse need an optional component called Mylyn ( / ˈ m aɪ l ɪ n / ), an open-source implementation of

825-452: A version named after Galileo , the discoverer of those moons. These were followed by two sun-themed names, Helios of Greek mythology, and Indigo , one of the seven colors of a rainbow (which is produced by the sun). The version after that, Juno, has a triple meaning: a Roman mythological figure , an asteroid , and a spacecraft to Jupiter . Kepler , Luna , and Mars continued the astronomy theme, and then Neon and Oxygen constituted

880-444: A web IDE or cloud IDE, is a browser based IDE that allows for software development or web development. An online IDE can be accessed from a web browser, allowing for a portable work environment. An online IDE does not usually contain all of the same features as a traditional or desktop IDE although all of the basic IDE features, such as syntax highlighting, are typically present. A Mobile-Based Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

935-587: Is EclipseCon. There are four types of membership in the Eclipse Foundation: Strategic, Contributing, Associate, and Committer. Each member organization pays annual dues based on its membership level. Strategic Members are organizations that invest in developers and other resources to further develop the Eclipse technology. Each strategic member has a representative on the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors. Strategic Members include

990-420: Is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities for software development . An IDE normally consists of at least a source-code editor , build automation tools, and a debugger . Some IDEs, such as IntelliJ IDEA , Eclipse and Lazarus contain the necessary compiler , interpreter or both; others, such as SharpDevelop and NetBeans , do not. The boundary between an IDE and other parts of

1045-543: Is a modern on-the-fly syntax checking extension for GNU Emacs 24 with support for 39 languages. Another example is JDoodle, an online cloud-based IDE that supports 88 languages. [1] Eclipse , and Netbeans have plugins for C / C++ , Ada , GNAT (for example AdaGIDE ), Perl , Python , Ruby , and PHP , which are selected between automatically based on file extension, environment or project settings. IDEs can be implemented in various languages, for example: Unix programmers can combine command-line POSIX tools into

1100-458: Is a software application that provides a comprehensive suite of tools for software development on mobile platforms. Unlike traditional desktop IDEs, mobile-based IDEs are designed to run on smartphones and tablets, allowing developers to write, debug, and deploy code directly from their mobile devices. Eclipse Foundation The Eclipse Project was originally created by IBM in November 2001 and

1155-470: Is being edited, providing instant feedback when syntax errors are introduced, thus allowing developers to debug code much faster and more easily with an IDE. Some IDEs are dedicated to a specific programming language , allowing a feature set that most closely matches the programming paradigms of the language. However, there are many multiple-language IDEs. While most modern IDEs are graphical, text-based IDEs such as Turbo Pascal were in popular use before

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1210-651: Is best known for developing Eclipse IDE , an IDE primarily targeted at developing in Java . The Foundation as a whole is largely centred around Java development, with more than 90% of its codebase written in Java. As of January 2024, the Eclipse Foundation hosts more than 415 open-source projects. The Foundation also hosts 22 Industry Collaborations, including groups devoted to the Eclipse IDE, Internet of Things , and scientific research. The Eclipse Foundation hosts DemoCamps, Hackathons , and conferences; its flagship event

1265-638: Is considered on a case-by-case basis. Eclipse was originally released under the Common Public License , but was later re-licensed under the Eclipse Public License. The Free Software Foundation has said that both licenses are free software licenses, but are incompatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL). According to Lee Nackman, Chief Technology Officer of IBM's Rational division (originating in 2003) at that time,

1320-500: Is estimated that IBM had already invested nearly $ 40 million by that time. The original members were Borland , IBM , Merant , QNX Software Systems , Rational Software , Red Hat , SuSE , TogetherSoft , and WebGain. The number of stewards increased to over 80 by the end of 2003. In January 2004, the Eclipse Foundation was created. Eclipse 3.0 (released on 21 June 2004) selected the OSGi Service Platform specifications as

1375-610: Is expected to provide integrated version control , in order to interact with source repositories. IDEs are also used for debugging, using an integrated debugger , with support for setting breakpoints in the editor, visual rendering of steps, etc. IDEs may provide support for code search. Code search has two different meanings. First, it means searching for class and function declarations, usages, variable and field read/write, etc. IDEs can use different kinds of user interface for code search, for example form-based widgets and natural-language based interfaces. Second, it means searching for

1430-428: Is often capable of installing the required server (for development) directly from the IDE. It supports remote debugging, allowing a user to watch variables and step through the code of an application that is running on the attached server. The Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) project is an extension of the Eclipse platform with tools for developing Web and Java EE applications. It includes source and graphical editors for

1485-482: The European Space Agency , Microsoft , and Oracle . Contributing Members are organizations that participate in the development of the Eclipse ecosystem and offer products and services based on, or with, Eclipse. Contributing Members include ARM , BMW Group , NXP , Witekio, and more. Associate Members are non-voting members who can submit requirements, participate in project reviews, and participate in

1540-539: The GNU General Public License . It was one of the first IDEs to run under GNU Classpath and it runs without problems under IcedTea . Eclipse was inspired by the Smalltalk -based VisualAge family of integrated development environment (IDE) products. Although fairly successful, a major drawback of the VisualAge products was that developed code was not in a component-based software engineering model. Instead, all code for

1595-511: The Lego Mindstorms system and is being actively perused by a number of companies wishing to capitalize on the power of custom browsers like those found at Mozilla . KTechlab supports flowcode and is a popular open-source IDE and Simulator for developing software for microcontrollers. Visual programming is also responsible for the power of distributed programming (cf. LabVIEW and EICASLAB software). An early visual programming system, Max ,

1650-438: The task-focused interface . It provides an API for tools embedding the task-focused interface. For software developers, it helps a developer work efficiently with many different tasks (such as bugs, problem reports or new features). Tasks are integrated into Mylyn. For all tasks that have been integrated, Mylyn monitors user activity and tries to identify information relevant to the task at hand. It uses this task context to focus

1705-500: The Android SDK tools, and export signed (or unsigned) .apk files in order to distribute their applications. It is freely available to download. Google's ADT was the official IDE for Android until 2015 but was replaced by Eclipse's Andmore and the official Android Studio . As of 2024, the project appears to be moribund, with no activity since 2017. Integrated development environment An integrated development environment ( IDE )

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1760-599: The Annual Meeting of the Membership at Large and scheduled quarterly update meetings. Committer Members are committers who become full members of the Eclipse Foundation. Committers are the core developers of Eclipse projects and can commit changes to project source code. Committer Members have representation on the board of directors. A majority of Foundation members contribute to the Foundation by creating new applications and tools based on previous Eclipse applications, while

1815-501: The Apple Macintosh's classic Mac OS and macOS , dating back to Macintosh Programmer's Workshop , Turbo Pascal , THINK Pascal and THINK C environments of the mid-1980s. Currently macOS programmers can choose between native IDEs like Xcode and open-source tools such as Eclipse and Netbeans . ActiveState Komodo is a proprietary multilanguage IDE supported on macOS. An online integrated development environment , also known as

1870-511: The Eclipse Marketplace. Valable is a Vala plug-in for Eclipse. In addition to the built-in Java compiler warnings, additional plug-ins are available for linting to improve code quality and consistency such as SpotBugs and Sonar. Support for build tools such as Ant , Maven , Make , and CMake includes the capability to replace Eclipse native project file format with Maven pom.xml directly. Several alternative distributions exist in

1925-456: The Eclipse Platform and several other Eclipse projects. From 2008 through 2018, each Simultaneous Release had occurred on the 4th Wednesday of June. In 2018 the project switched to quarterly (13 week) YYYY-MM releases without intermediate service releases. A Java 7 JRE/JDK is required to run most of the packages based on this version. Dropped support for the following Unix based platforms: AIX, Solaris, HP-UX and s390. From this version on,

1980-475: The Eclipse Platform to work with typesetting languages like LaTeX and networking applications such as telnet and database management systems . The plug-in architecture supports writing any desired extension to the environment, such as for configuration management . Java and CVS support is provided in the Eclipse SDK , with support for other version control systems provided by third-party plug-ins . With

2035-473: The Eclipse Platform, such as development toolkits for other programming languages, and can write and contribute their own plug-ins. Since Eclipse 3.0 (released in 2004), plug-ins are installed and managed as "bundles" using Equinox , an implementation of OSGi . The Eclipse SDK is free and open-source software , released under the terms of the Eclipse Public License , although it is incompatible with

2090-599: The Eclipse UI on the related information. Mylyn can integrate with repositories such as Bugzilla , Trac , Redmine , Mantis , JIRA , Unfuddle , and GitHub . It focuses on improving productivity by reducing searching, scrolling, and navigation. By making task context explicit, Mylyn is also meant to facilitate multitasking, planning, reusing past efforts, and sharing expertise. The project name comes from myelin , an electrically insulating layer that surrounds neurons' axons. The original name of this project, "Mylar", replicated

2145-517: The Eclipse foundation's own plugin, called Andmore: Development Tools for Android , after Google discontinued development of their plug-in for the Eclipse IDE, that is designed to provide an integrated environment in which to build Android applications. ADT/Andmore extends the abilities of Eclipse to let developers set up new Android projects, create an application UI, add packages based on the Android Framework API, debug their applications using

2200-410: The Eclipse project. The PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) Development Tools project provides a framework for the Eclipse platform. The project encompasses all development components, including code-completion, develop PHP and facilitate extensibility. It leverages the existing Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) and Dynamic Languages Toolkit (DLTK). Android Development Tools (ADT) was superseded in 2015 by

2255-571: The Museum of Information Technology at Arlington in Texas. One of the first IDEs with a plug-in concept was Softbench . In 1995 Computerwoche commented that the use of an IDE was not well received by developers since it would fence in their creativity. As of August 2023 , the most commonly searched for IDEs on Google Search were Visual Studio , Visual Studio Code , and Eclipse . The IDE editor usually provides syntax highlighting , it can show both

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2310-422: The availability of windowing systems like Microsoft Windows and the X Window System (X11). They commonly use function keys or hotkeys to execute frequently used commands or macros. IDEs initially became possible when developing via a console or terminal . Early systems could not support one, since programs were submitted to a compiler or assembler via punched cards , paper tape , etc. Dartmouth BASIC

2365-519: The broader software development environment is not well-defined; sometimes a version control system or various tools to simplify the construction of a graphical user interface (GUI) are integrated. Many modern IDEs also have a class browser , an object browser , and a class hierarchy diagram for use in object-oriented software development . Integrated development environments are designed to maximize programmer productivity by providing tight-knit components with similar user interfaces . IDEs present

2420-624: The construction of applications based on SWT. Eclipse was made to run on Wayland during a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Project in 2014. As of 2017, language packs being developed by the Babel Project provide translations into over 40 natural languages . Eclipse provides the rich client platform (RCP) for developing general-purpose applications. The following components constitute the rich client platform: Examples of rich client applications based on Eclipse are: Eclipse supports development for Tomcat , GlassFish and many other servers and

2475-403: The corresponding workspace resource is refreshed afterward. Eclipse implements the graphical control elements of the Java toolkit called Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT), whereas most Java applications use the Java standard Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT), Swing , or JavaFX . Eclipse's user interface also uses an intermediate graphical user interface layer called JFace , which simplifies

2530-456: The exception of a small run-time kernel, everything in Eclipse is a plug-in. Thus, every plug-in developed integrates with Eclipse in the same way as other plug-ins; in this respect, all features are "created equal". Eclipse provides plug-ins for a wide variety of features, some of which are from third parties using both free and commercial models. Examples of plug-ins include for Unified Modeling Language (UML), for Sequence and other UML diagrams,

2585-412: The flexibility of a full programming language, without the traditional learning curve associated with one. Some IDEs support multiple languages, such as GNU Emacs , IntelliJ IDEA , Eclipse , MyEclipse , NetBeans , MonoDevelop , JDoodle or PlayCode. Support for alternative languages is often provided by plugins , allowing them to be installed on the same IDE at the same time. For example, Flycheck

2640-401: The name "Eclipse" (dating from at least 2001) was not a wordplay on Sun Microsystems , as the product's primary competition at the time of naming was Microsoft Visual Studio , which Eclipse was to eclipse. Different versions of Eclipse have been given different science-related names. The versions named after Callisto , Europa , and Ganymede , which are moons of Jupiter , were followed by

2695-480: The runtime architecture. The Association for Computing Machinery recognized Eclipse with the 2011 ACM Software System Award on 26 April 2012. The Eclipse Public License (EPL) is the fundamental license under which Eclipse projects are released. Some projects require dual licensing, for which the Eclipse Distribution License (EDL) is available, although use of this license must be applied for and

2750-422: The same set of capabilities as one cohesive unit. Reducing setup time can increase developer productivity, especially in cases where learning to use the IDE is faster than manually integrating and learning all of the individual tools. Tighter integration of all development tasks has the potential to improve overall productivity beyond just helping with setup tasks. For example, code can be continuously parsed while it

2805-610: The standard Unix and GNU build tools, building an IDE with programs like Emacs or Vim . Data Display Debugger is intended to be an advanced graphical front-end for many text-based debugger standard tools. Some programmers prefer managing makefiles and their derivatives to the similar code building tools included in a full IDE. For example, most contributors to the PostgreSQL database use make and GDB directly to develop new features. Even when building PostgreSQL for Microsoft Windows using Visual C++ , Perl scripts are used as

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2860-918: The structures, the language keywords and the syntax errors with visually distinct colors and font effects. Code completion is an important IDE feature, intended to speed up programming. Modern IDEs even have intelligent code completion . Code completion is an autocompletion feature in many integrated development environments (IDEs) that speeds up the process of coding applications by fixing common mistakes and suggesting lines of code. This usually happens through popups while typing, querying parameters of functions, and query hints related to syntax errors. Modern code completion software typically uses generative artificial intelligence systems to predict lines of code. Code completion and related tools serve as documentation and disambiguation for variable names, functions , and methods , using static analysis . Advanced IDEs provide support for automated refactoring . An IDE

2915-466: Was modeled after an analog synthesizer design and has been used to develop real-time music performance software since the 1980s. Another early example was Prograph , a dataflow -based system originally developed for the Macintosh . The graphical programming environment "Grape" is used to program qfix robot kits . This approach is also used in specialist software such as Openlab, where the end-users want

2970-423: Was supported by a consortium of software vendors. In 2004, the Eclipse Foundation was founded to lead and develop the Eclipse community. It was created to allow a vendor-neutral, open, and transparent community to be established around Eclipse. The Foundation utilizes a hierarchical project structure. Each project stems from a primary parent project and may have sub-projects. The uppermost projects, which do not have

3025-573: Was the first language to be created with an IDE (and was also the first to be designed for use while sitting in front of a console or terminal). Its IDE (part of the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System ) was command-based, and therefore did not look much like the menu-driven, graphical IDEs popular after the advent of the Graphical User Interface . However it integrated editing, file management, compilation, debugging and execution in

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