Eclipse
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Eclipse is the Open Source multi-platform, multi-language development framework from IBM
Due to the fact, that you can extend Eclipse with your own Java-packages, it should be possible to build a large range of applications for this framework, like it has been done for Emacs.
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The state of PHP-development on Eclipse
Read this if you are interested in my opinion about PHP-support in Eclipse.
Usefull Plugins
These are the external plugins I use on a more or less daily basis to get my work done. All of them are free (at least as in beer), most are Open Source.
I presume, that most of them have been reviewed over and over on other pages and certainly all can be found on one of the Eclipse -plugin-pages, but anyway. I like them, I have tested them and here's my opinion:
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[edit] Pydev | |
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Until recently there was no useable Python- plugin available for Eclipse. This has changed since Pydev 0.7, and definitely with 0.9. While the text-editor is still inferior to the Emacs Python-mode, the whole plugin is very useable and quite stable. The more recent versions of Pydev also have Jython integration, so no need for Red Robin. Unfortunately the most recent version became partly payware (core remaining free), so it remains to be seen, what becomes of the core Pydev editor in terms of new features, updates and improvements. |
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[edit] QuantumDB | |
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If you would like to query database-servers with via a JDBC-interface, you might like QuantumDB, which does exactly this. |
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[edit] Clay | |
 | Clay is a visual database-modelling-tool. You can draw tables and define columns and relations between tables. From the drawing you can generate SQL in one of several dialects, which than can be fed to the database-backend of your choice via QuantumDB. You can also reverse-engineer databases via the JDBC-connection. The schema can be stored in an XML-format, and from there (potentially) transformed to other formats (for object relational mapping frameworks etc.). |
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[edit] EHEP | |
 | The Eclipse Hex Editor Plugin. Nice if you need to have a look at binaries. |
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[edit] PHP IDE Project | |
| Although still in beta and some features missing, this is by far the most usable PHP plugin for Eclipse I have been using so far (and I have used them all) This one works better for Linux or Mac OS X than TruStudio and PHPEclipse, which was not usable in a production environment -at least the previous version was too buggy on a Mac (have not tested the current release though). | |
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[edit] EPIC -Eclipse Perl Integration | |
| Perl editing with Eclipse, quite nice and the unstable version 0.5 works officially on Eclipse 3.2. The syntax-checking and -highlighting could be better though. Also has an Regexp editor and Perldoc integration (although this might be of more advantage on Windows, where you normally don't have a decent console. The debugger works, albeit a bit unreliable (at least under Mac OS X). | |
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[edit] Colorer | |
| Syntax highlighting for various languages and file- types. Colorer can be used as a replacement in case that no more sophisticated environment exists. | |
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[edit] StatEt | |
| A (pretty basic) R editor for Eclipse. Supports templates and syntax highlighting. Not much more than that, but might be interesting if you are into statistical computing. |