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Eclipse's First Plugin A Reality

Posted by timothy on from the view-through-a-slit dept.

Irish writes: "Eclipse, IBMs open sourced development tool donation (which is now supported by an organization of a number of companies), just got a little stronger as the released their first plugin. The C and C++ IDE will focus on Linux development and deployment. On a similar note, developerWorks is offering a trial download for WebSphere Studio Application Developer for Linux which is a pluggable tool-development and integration platform that is very similar to Eclipse. I was wonding is Eclipse trying to block SUN?"

10 comments

  1. Screenshots? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Anyone got pictures of this IDE? Does it look functional?

  2. Re:No love for this story. by Dancin_Santa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What's also sad is that the other three posts are mine. One modded up, one modded down, and this one modded just right.

    Dancin Santa

  3. Not quite the first by Yuri+Gadow · · Score: 1

    I don't know that I would call this the first, though it may seem that way from the web-site. The Java Development Tools plug-in has been available for a while, as has the Jikes RVM plug-in.

    Eclipse, for Java development, is definitely at a usable stage (both 1.0 and the 2.0 integration builds.) Very nice editing, refactoring, and VCS features (to name a few.)

    I'm not sure why one would think that an open source development tools platform would constitute an attempt to block SUN. If you mean NetBeans, then, insofar as competition equals "blocking", I suppose you could say that.

    1. Re:Not quite the first by Spock+the+Vulcan · · Score: 1
      I'm not sure why one would think that an open source development tools platform would constitute an attempt to block SUN.
      Eclipse...blocking...Sun....get it?
  4. Re:No love for this story. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    maybe you should just shut up and stop posting

  5. Doesn't get access violations by alienmole · · Score: 1
    Microsoft programmers are all still stuck in dangling-pointer-land...

    Kinda takes the fun out of a troll when it can be blown to smithereens with one sentence, dunnit??