The following is a list of notable

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projects. Although some of the listed projects play a vital role for the Eclipse IDE the Eclipse project ecosystem covers a significantly larger scope than the Eclipse IDE.

Official projects

These projects are maintained by the Eclipse community and hosted by the Eclipse Foundation.

Top-level sub-projects

* ''Eclipse Platform'' is the core framework that all other Eclipse projects are built on. * ''Java development tools'' (JDT) provides support for core Java SE. This includes a standalone fast incremental compiler. * ''Plug-in Development Environment'' (PDE) provides tools to create, develop, test, debug, build and deploy Eclipse plug-ins, fragments, features, update sites and RCP products. * ''Orion'', ''CHE,'' ''Dirigible'' and ''

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'' are browser-based IDEs and open tool integration platform which is entirely focused on developing for the web, in the web. Tools are written in JavaScript and run in the browser. * '' Oniro'' is an Open Source software platform, having an operating system, standard APIs and basic applications.

Tools

The following sub-projects are located under the ''Tools'' sub-project: * ''Buckminster'' adds support for Component Assemblies. * ''C/C++ Development Tools'' (''CDT'') adds support for C/C++

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, code formatting, debugger integration and project structures. Unlike the JDT project, the CDT project does not add a compiler and relies on an external tool chain. * ''

Graphical Editing Framework The Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) is an Eclipse project that provides framework and end-user components related to graphical applications. History GEF was initially developed as part of IBM's etools (com.ibm.etools.gef) and was contributed t ...

'' (GEF) allows developers to build standalone graphical tools. Example use include circuit diagram design tools, activity diagram editors and

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document editors. * ''

PHP Development Tools PHP Development Tools (PDT) is a language IDE plugin for the Eclipse platform and the open-source project that develops it. The project intends to encompass all tools necessary to develop PHP based software. It uses the existing Eclipse Web Tool ...

'' (PDT) * ''Parallel Tools Platform'' (PTP) adds support for parallel and high-performance computing development, analysis, run/monitoring, debugging, and performance analysis. * '' WindowBuilder'' is a bi-directional Java GUI designer. Projects requiring an older version of the Eclipse platform: * ''AspectJ Development Tools'' (AJDT) adds support for the

AspectJ AspectJ is an aspect-oriented programming (AOP) extension for the Java programming language, created at PARC. It is available in Eclipse Foundation open-source projects, both stand-alone and integrated into Eclipse. AspectJ has become a widely ...

Java extensions. AJDT require Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede).

Modeling

The following sub-projects are located under the ''Modeling'' sub-project: * ''

Eclipse Modeling Framework Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) is an Eclipse-based modeling framework and code generation facility for building tools and other applications based on a structured data model. From a model specification described in XML Metadata Interchange ...

'' (EMF), a modeling framework and code generation facility for building tools and other applications based on a structured data model, from a model specification described in XMI. * ''

Graphical Modeling Framework The Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) is a framework within the Eclipse platform. It provides a generative component and runtime infrastructure for developing graphical editors based on the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) and Graphical Edit ...

'' (GMF) is a generative component and runtime infrastructure for developing graphical editors based on EMF and GEF. * ''

Acceleo Acceleo is an open-source code generator from the Eclipse Foundation that allows people to use a model-driven approach to building applications. It is an implementation of the " MOFM2T" standard, from the Object Management Group (OMG), for perfo ...

'', an Open Source code generator that uses EMF based models to generate any textual language (Java, PHP, Python, etc.). * ''

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'', an Open Source project to create custom graphical modeling workbenches by leveraging the Eclipse Modeling technologies, including EMF and GMF. * '' eTrice'', an implementation of the

Real-Time Object-Oriented Modeling Real-Time Object-Oriented Modeling (ROOM) is a domain-specific language. ROOM was developed in the early 1990s for modeling real-time systems. The initial focus was on telecommunications, even though ROOM can be applied to any event-driven real-ti ...

language ROOM for event driven real-time software systems. * '' Vorto'', standardization of information models which are an abstraction of a physical, real-world device. * '' Eclipse Papyrus'' Papyrus is an industrial-grade open source Model-Based Engineering tool. Papyrus has notably been used successfully in industrial projects and is the base platform for several industrial modeling tools.

Technology

The following sub-projects are located under the ''Technology'' sub-project: * ''Eclipse Scout'' is a framework for implementing multitier

business applications Business software (or a business application) is any software or set of computer programs used by business users to perform various business functions. These business applications are used to increase productivity, measure productivity, and per ...

based on the Eclipse platform. * '' Eclipse SUMO'' is a free and open traffic simulation toolsuite. * ''

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'' provides a middleware independent framework and exemplary implementations for users, developers, and administrators accessing Computing Grids. * ''Subversive — SVN Team Provider'' is aimed at providing

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support similar to that previously provided for CVS.

Other

* ''

Application Lifecycle Framework Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) was an Eclipse Foundation project to develop an open framework for system integration and interoperability for application lifecycle management tools. The project failed to gain the support of significant ven ...

'', a closed project * '' Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools Project'' (BIRT), an Eclipse-based

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reporting system for web applications, especially those based on Java EE. * ''Data Tools Platform Project'' (DTP) provides

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connectivity and

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design tools. * '' Mylyn'' is a task-focused interface for Eclipse combining a task manager that integrates with bug trackers (such as

Bugzilla Bugzilla is a web-based general-purpose bug tracking system and testing tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla project, and licensed under the Mozilla Public License. Released as open-source software by Netscape Communications in 19 ...

Trac Trac is an open-source, web-based project management and bug tracking system. It has been adopted by a variety of organizations for use as a bug tracking system for both free and open-source software and proprietary projects and products. Tr ...

and JIRA) and version control software with dynamic code filtering. * ''Test and Performance Tools Platform'' (TPTP) which provides a platform that allows software developers to build test and performance tools, such as

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and

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applications. * ''Web Standard Tools'' (WST) adds standards compliant web development tools. These tools include editors for

XML Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing data. It defines a set of rules for encoding electronic document, documents in a format that is both human-readable and Machine-r ...

HTML Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It defines the content and structure of web content. It is often assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets ( ...

and CSS. * ''Mihini'', an embedded runtime running on top of Linux, that exposes high-level Lua API for building M2M applications. Mihini aims at enabling easy and portable development, by facilitating access to the I/Os of an M2M system, providing a communication layer, etc.

Third-party projects

* ''Android Development Tools Plugin for Eclipse'' is an Android Development Toolkit plugin for Eclipse. * ''CFEclipse'' is an open source

ColdFusion Adobe ColdFusion is a commercial rapid web-application development computing platform created by J. J. Allaire in 1995. (The programming language used with that platform is also commonly called ColdFusion, though is more accurately known as CF ...

IDE based on the Eclipse platform. * ''EPIC'' is an open source

Perl Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Though Perl is not officially an acronym, there are various backronyms in use, including "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language". Perl was developed ...

IDE based on the Eclipse platform. * ''

Adobe Flash Builder Adobe Flash Builder (previously known as Adobe Flex Builder) is an integrated development environment (IDE) built on the Eclipse platform that speeds development of rich Internet applications (RIAs) and cross-platform desktop applications, part ...

'' is an Eclipse-based IDE for developing rich Internet applications (RIAs) with the Adobe Flash/Flex framework. * '' Google Plugin for Eclipse'' is a Google App Engine and Google Web Toolkit plugin. * ''

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& Grails Tool Suite'' (GGTS) is an open source Eclipse based IDE tailored to developing Groovy programs and Grails web applications. Like Spring Tool Suite, GGTS includes the developer edition of VMware vFabric tc Server. * '' JBoss Developer Studio'' (JBDS) is a development environment combining tooling and components of Eclipse, the Eclipse Web Tools Project, and the

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (or JBoss EAP) is a subscription-based/open-source Java EE-based application server runtime platform used for building, deploying, and hosting highly-transactional Java applications and services develop ...

. * ''The JMLSpecs Project'' adds support for the JML specification language to the Java features provided by the JDT. The project currently provides automatic JML compilation, the standard JML toolset, and Eclipse UI features such as syntax highlighting and content assistance. * ''Nodeclipse'' is Eclipse-based IDE for Node.js development. * ''

PyDev PyDev is a third-party plug-in for Eclipse. It is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) used for programming in Python supporting code refactoring, graphical debugging, code analysis among other features. History PyDev was originally cr ...

'' is a fully functional

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Integrated Development Environment (IDE) with refactoring support, and graphical debugging. * '' RadRails'' is an IDE for

Ruby on Rails Ruby on Rails (simplified as Rails) is a server-side web application framework written in Ruby under the MIT License. Rails is a model–view–controller (MVC) framework, providing default structures for a database, a web service, and web pa ...

. * ''Ruby Development Tools'' (RDT) is an open source

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IDE for the Eclipse platform. * ''ScalaIDE plugin'' allows Eclipse users to design, debug and build programs in Scala. The ScalaIDE supports mixed Scala/Java Projects,

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, and an integrated debugger. * ''Spring Tool Suite'' (STS) is an open source IDE (also available as an Eclipse plugin) for building applications utilizing the

Spring Framework The Spring Framework is an application framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform. The framework's core features can be used by any Java application, but there are extensions for building web applications on top of the Ja ...

. STS includes the developer edition of vFabric tc Server, advanced code completion and refactoring, a graphical Spring configuration editor, and tools for

Spring Web Flow Spring Web Flow (SWF) is the sub-project of the Spring Framework that focuses on providing the infrastructure for building and running Rich Internet application, rich web applications. The project tries to solve 3 core problems facing web applicat ...

Spring Batch Spring Batch is an open source framework for batch processing. It is a lightweight, comprehensive solution designed to enable the development of robust batch applications, which are often found in modern enterprise systems. Spring Batch builds ...

Spring Roo Spring Roo is a Open-source software, open-source software tool that uses convention over configuration, convention-over-configuration principles to provide rapid application development of Java (programming language), Java-based enterprise softwa ...

, and Spring Integration. * ''Wolfram Workbench'' is an IDE based on Eclipse (also available as an Eclipse plugin) for the

Mathematica Wolfram (previously known as Mathematica and Wolfram Mathematica) is a software system with built-in libraries for several areas of technical computing that allows machine learning, statistics, symbolic computation, data manipulation, network ...

language. * ''WOLips'' is an IDE for

WebObjects WebObjects is a discontinued Java web application server and a server-based web application framework originally developed by NeXT Software, Inc. WebObject's hallmark features are its object-orientation, database connectivity, and prototy ...

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