EasyEclipse Plugins

Here, you will find a set of plugins that we have packaged. They will work best with an EasyEclipse Distribution. They may work with another distribution of Eclipse, but we have not tested it. In particular, dependencies may not be handled correctly.

The downloads below are for EasyEclipse 1.0.2. Plugins marked with a star (*) are also available for EasyEclipse 1.2. See each plugin page for download information.

Complete installation instructions are available in the Help section.

Web development

Tools for web page development.

Eclipse HTML Tidy: Format and validate HTML, XHTML and XML documents within your favorite editor      
eZingBuilder: Edit HTML web page visually      
Eclipse Web tools editors: Edit and validate XML, XSL, XML Schemas, DTD, HTML, JavaScript and CSS files. Test and validate web services      *
Amateras HTML and XML editor: Edit HTML, JSP, XML and CSS files      

J2EE support

Tools to develop with J2EE technologies (EJBs, servlets) and tools to manage J2EE servers.

Note that some of those plugins have dependencies on other plugins, so it may easier to install the Server Java distribution.

Eclipse J2EE Tools: Create and deploy J2EE based applications, including Servlets, JSP and EJB      *
Sysdeo Tomcat Launcher: Start, stop, and manage Tomcat and WAR files without leaving Eclipse      
Weblogic Server Plugin for Eclipse: Start, stop and manage a WebLogic server. Run and debug applications on a Weblogic server      
JBoss IDE with AOP and EJB3: Develop, deploy, test and debug JBoss-based applications, with support of Enterprise Java Beans 3.0 and Aspect-Oriented Programming      

Database management and persistence

Tools to access, edit and manipulate relational database from within Eclipse; and plugins to manage Hibernate (DB persistence in Java). Some of there tools are redundant. We need your feedback to decide which are the best to keep.

Eclipse Data Tools: Manage and query relational databases with SQL*
Eclipse Database tools: Access, manage and query SQL relational databases and servers      *
QuantumDB: Access, manage and query SQL relational database and servers access using standard JDBC drivers      
DB Schema Viewer: Create a visual diagram of a relational database schema, with support for MySQL, PostgreSQL and Firebird      
Hiberclipse: Generate Hibernate mapping files and leverage the Hibernate roundtrip tools      
Hibernate Tools: Edit Hibernate mappings, execute HQL queries and develop applications with Hibernate, a Java persistence and object-relational mapping framework      

Desktop development

Support for desktop application development, including development of Eclipse plugins.

Plugin Development Environment: Develop, test, debug, build and deploy Eclipse plugins and rich client applications      *
Source code for the Eclipse Platform and Java Development Kit: The source code for the Platform and Java Development Kit, as well as some documentation on writing Eclipse plugins      *
Eclipse Visual Editor: Build visual user interfaces for Swing, SWT and Eclipse RCP applications with a graphical editor   *
EclipseNSIS: Create native windows installers for your applications with NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)   
Fat Jar Eclipse plugin: Deploys an Eclipse java project into one executable jar with all dependencies included      
JarLaunch: Run and debug Java Archive files      

Programming languages

Support for programming languages.

Eclipse C and C++ Development Tool: Create, compile, tests and debug and C and C++ applications and programs.*
PHP Eclipse: Edit, run, test, debug and deploy PHP applications      
PyDev: Edit, run, debug and refactor Python and Jython applications      
Ruby Development Tools: Edit, test, run and debug Ruby applications      
Eclipse Perl Integration: Edit, run, debug Perl scripts and applications. Test and evaluate regular expressions      

Essential utilities

Those utilities are non-intrusive and can greatly increase your productivity on Eclipse. Perhaps they should be part of all EasyEclipse distributions.

Color Editor: Edit with syntax highlighting over 100+ file formats      *
AnyEdit Tools: Useful right-click menus in editors: "Open file under cursor", "Open type under cursor", et cetera      *
Multi-Clipboard: Cut and paste with multiple clipboards at the same time      *
Eclipse Utils Plugins: Save the cursor position of editors when closing and re-opening a file. Access common team actions with explorer buttons      *
QuickREx: Build, test and evaluate regular expressions with support for Perl, Awk and Java regex      *

Internal components

These components are only released as part of an EasyEclipse distribution. We list them here for reference.

Java for Windows: Run Java application on Sun Java(tm) runtime, packaged for Eclipse use
Java JDK for Windows: Run Java application on Sun Java(tm) runtime, packaged for Eclipse use
Java for Linux: Run Java application on Sun Java(tm) runtime, packaged for Eclipse use
Java JDK for Linux: Run Java application on Sun Java(tm) runtime, packaged for Eclipse use
Eclipse Platform: Shared platform services from Eclipse
Eclipse Java Development Tools: Edit, compile, run, debug, test, refactor, document and deploy Java applications
Eclipse Tools: Support for data, xsd and java modelling and manipulation, and graphical editing      *

Framework support

Support for various client- and server-side frameworks.

EclipseME: Develop, test and deploys Java Mobile (J2ME) mobile applications   
Spring IDE: Develop, manage and deploy Spring Framework based applications      
StrutsBox: Develop and manage Struts application configurations visually      
Amateras IDE: Edit HTML, XML and JSP. Manage Struts and Java Server Faces configuration files visually      
RadRails: Create, test and deploy Ruby on Rails applications      
Aston Wizards: Create template applications with wizards for web applications (JSP, XML, Struts) and design patterns      

Advanced development

Support for advanced, specialized or experimental development languages and tools.

Euromath XML Editor: Edit and process XML documents visually      
Vex: Visual Editor for XML: Edit and process document-style XML documents visually with support for Docbook , XHTML and DITA      
AspectJ Development Tools (AJDT): Edit, run, debug and navigate aspect oriented Java applications with AspectJ      
Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools Designer: Design, deploy and manage business reports and charts      *
Eclipse JavaCC plugin: Edit and compile JavaCC and JJTree grammar      
TeXlipse: Edit, manage and build LaTeX documents and BibTeX entries      
JBoss jBPM Process Designer: Design visual process flows for jBPM      
Eclipse Graphical Modeling Framework: A framework for buidling graphical modeling plugins like UML graphical editors*
Eclipse test, performance and monitoring tools: Profile, analyze, trace, monitor and test your Java applications.*

Build tools

Tools to help build process. They aren't a lot of them because with Eclipse (and Ant), you have already pretty much all you need.

MevenIDE Maven Eclipse integration: Maven 1.0.x Eclipse integration      

Source control

Integration with various Source Control systems. Remember that CVS is supported by Eclipse out-of-the-box.

Clearcase plugin for Eclipse: Access ClearCase without leaving Eclipse      
Subclipse: Access and manage Subversion repositories within Eclipse      *
MS Visual Source Safe (VSS) in Eclipse: Access Microsoft Visual Source Safe (VSS) in Eclipse   
Change Log: Create CVS changelogs for Java, C and C++ code in the "GNU style" changelog format      

Code quality and test

Various plugins to measure code quality and run tests.

Solex Web Application Testing: Automate the testing of web application with user interface and stress scripted testing including automated recording       
Checkstyle plugin for Eclipse: Perform style, metrics and consistency checks on your Java code, reported as problem markers      
PMD Eclipse Lite: Analyse your Java code for potential issues reported as problem markers and quick fixes      
State of Flow Eclipse Metrics plugin: Compute quality metrics on your Java code, reported as problem markers. Create code metrics reports      
FindBugs plugin: Find hidden bugs in your Java Code      
Metrics plugin: Compute code metrics on your Java code and perform graphical dependency analysis      
Code Analysis Plugin: Analyze the quality and coupling of your Java code using reports and graphical code metrics      
Simple test for PHP: Test your PHP code with the Simpletext PHP unit test framework, and experimental support for PHPUnit2      

Goodies

You may not need these goodies, but they can be useful at times.

XPath Plugin: Evalute XPath expression in the outline view of that simple xml editor      
Orangevolt EclipseXSLT: Edit XSLT stylesheets, launch XSL transformations and test Xpath expressions      
Build User Libraries: Build user libraries from Zip files      
JarPlug: View and edit Java Archive files      
GraySky Logwatcher: Monitor any log file within Eclipse      
Ganymede: Monitor Log4J logs withing Eclipse      
OpenOffice Integration Plugin: Integrate OpenOffice documents in an Eclipse project without Microsoft OLE      
EclipseDocs - Apache javadocs: Access the Ant and Velocity documentation within Eclipse help