The Eclipse Platform is designed for building integrated development environments (IDEs) that can be used to create applications as diverse as web sites, embedded JavaTM programs, C++ programs, and Enterprise JavaBeansTM. This paper is a general technical introduction to the Eclipse Platform. Part I presents a technical overview of its architecture. Part II is a case study of how the Eclipse Platform was used to build a full-featured Java development environment.

Contents Introduction Part I: Eclipse Platform Technical Overview Platform Runtime and Plug-in Architecture Workspaces Workbench_and_UI_Toolkits SWT JFace Workbench UI_Integration Team Support Help Epilogue Part II: Case Study of Using the Eclipse Platform - Java Development Tooling JDT_Features
JDT Implementation
Java_Projects
Java_Compiler
Java_Model
Java_UI
Java Run and Debug
Epilogue

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