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Eclipse is an open source “universal” tool platform designed for building integrated development environments. Eclipse allows you to independently develop tools that integrate with other tools in a seamless way. Users will not know where one tool ends and another starts. To achieve this goal Eclipse provides a so called workbench that can be extended by plug-ins. This talk starts with a technical overview of the Eclipse architecture, its generic functionality and its key plug-in mechanism. Then it is demonstrated how the domain independent base platform was leveraged to build the Java development environment. For more information on eclipse check out the official homepage at http://www.eclipse.org.
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Weinand, A. (2003). Eclipse - An Open Source Platform for the Next Generation of Development Tools. In: Aksit, M., Mezini, M., Unland, R. (eds) Objects, Components, Architectures, Services, and Applications for a Networked World. NODe 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2591. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36557-5_3
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