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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?"

4 of 10 comments (clear)

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

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

  2. 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?
  3. 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??