Customize Your Callisto Experience | The Eclipse Foundation

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Customize Your Callisto Experience

The Callisto Experience starts with a small download in the form of the Eclipse Platform Runtime Binaries. From this starting point, using the Callisto Discovery Site, you can add as few or as many of the features produced by the ten projects involved in the Callisto release train as you need.

What do you need?

Eclipse 3.2 is required for Callisto. There is no upgrade path from previous versions of Eclipse.

The Eclipse Platform Runtime Binaries

Eclipse SDK
The Eclipse Platform Runtime Binaries provides base integrated development environment (IDE) functionality, but without support for any specific programming languages or tools. From the Platform Runtime Binaries, you can connect to the Callisto Discovery Site to install the features you need.
Optional features available via the Callisto Discovery Site
- C/C++ Development tools (CDT)
  CDT
  The CDT provides advanced functionality for C/C++ developers. Combining the CDT with the Platform Runtime forms a first-class C/C++ IDE.
  Tutorials and Help
  - Installing and using the C/C++ Development Tools
  - CDT Tutorials...
- Data Tools (DTP)
  
  Data Tools
  Data Tools provides tools for accessing, viewing and manipulating databases and other data sources.
- Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF)
  
  Eclipse Modeling Framework
  EMF is a modeling framework and code generation facility for building tools and other applications based on a structured data model.
- Graphical Editing Framework (GEF)
  
  Graphical Editing Framework
  The Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) allows developers to take an existing application model and quickly create a rich graphical editor.
- Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF)
  
  Graphical Modeling Framework
  The Eclipse Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) provides a generative component and runtime infrastructure for developing graphical editors.
- Java Development Tools (JDT)
  Java Development Tools
  The Java Development Tools (JDT) provides tools that support the development of any Java application, including Eclipse plug-ins.
  - Test First Development using Eclipse
- Java EE and Web Tools (WTP)
  Java EE and Web Tools
  The Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) extends the Eclipse platform with tools for developing Java Enterprise Edition and Web applications.
- Reporting Tools (BIRT)
  Reporting Tools
  BIRT is a reporting system that integrates with your application to produce compelling reports for both web and PDF.
- Test and Performance Tools (TPTP)
  Test and Performance Tools
  The Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) Project provides an open platform supplying powerful frameworks and services that allow software developers to build unique test and performance tool, both open source and commercial, that can be easily integrated with the platform and with other tools.
  Suggested reading
  - Using TPTP Logging and Monitoring Tools
- Visual Editor (VE)
  
  Visual Editor
  The Eclipse Visual Editor (VE) project is a vendor-neutral, open development platform supplying frameworks for creating GUI builders, and exemplary, extensible tool implementations for SWT/RCP.

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What do you need?

Eclipse SDK

CDT

Tutorials and Help

Data Tools

Eclipse Modeling Framework

Graphical Editing Framework

Graphical Modeling Framework

Java Development Tools

Java EE and Web Tools

Reporting Tools

Test and Performance Tools

Suggested reading

Visual Editor

Tutorials and Help

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