Eclipse Project
The Eclipse Project is an open source software development project devoted to creating a development platform and integrated tooling. Figure | -2 shows the high-level Eclipse Project architecture and shows the relationship of the following sub projects:
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| Eclipse Platform |
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| Eclipse Java Development Tools (JDT) |
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| Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) |
Figure 1-2 Eclipse Project overview
With a common public license that provides royalty free source code and world-wide redistribution rights, the Eclipse Platform provides tool developers with great flexibility and control over their software technology.
Industry leaders such as IBM, Borland, Merant, QNX Software Systems, Red Hat, SUSE, TogetherSoft, and WebGain formed the initial eclipse.org board of directors of the Eclipse open source project.
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Note: IBM Rational Application Developer v7.5 is based on Eclipse v3.4. |
More detailed information about Eclipse can be found at:
http://www.eclipse.org
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ibm.com/redbooks |