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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. fist by VALinux · · Score: -1

    i am the very first to be posting under this article! I KISS YOU!

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

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

  3. Visual Studio by VALinux · · Score: -1

    How is this any different from Microsoft Visual Studio? Visual Studio is clearly the most superior IDE to date, and I don't see how this can be any better. How is this any better?

    1. Re:Visual Studio by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      It's for Linux, so it's designed to be worse.

  4. No love for this story. by VALinux · · Score: -1

    Why is there no love for this story? There's like 5 posts and 3 of them are mine.

    1. 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

    2. Re:No love for this story. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      maybe you should just shut up and stop posting

  5. 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?
  6. 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??