Eclipse for Plug-in and RCP Developers

The Eclipse Software Development Kit (SDK) contains everything you need to build Eclipse applications, including plug-ins for the development environment and Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) applications.

The new Eclipse SDK 3.2 release features some exciting new capabilities for plug-in and RCP developers, including:

Java 6 support
Support for Mac OSX on Intel and Preview support for Windows Vista
SWT Enhancements including support for OpenGL, virtual trees, custom table cell drawing
Improvements in Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) to make building RCP applications easier
Common Navigator Framework
New standalone OSGi framework

For a more complete list, check out the New and Noteworthy.

The Eclipse SDK can be extended to provide additional functionality by adding features from the Callisto Discovery Site.

What do you need?

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

The Eclipse SDK 3.2
Eclipse SDK 3.2
The SDK provides Java development tools.
Tutorials and Help
- Installing the Eclipse SDK 3.2
- Test First Development using Eclipse
Optional features available via the Callisto Discovery Site
- 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.
- 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.
- Reporting Tools (BIRT)
  Reporting Tools
  BIRT is a reporting system that integrates with your application to produce compelling reports for both web and PDF.
- Data Tools (DTP)
  
  Data Tools
  The Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) is a set of extensible frameworks and exemplary tools for developing data-centric applications in Eclipse.

Eclipse

What do you need?

Eclipse SDK 3.2

Tutorials and Help

Visual Editor

Eclipse Modeling Framework

Graphical Editing Framework

Graphical Modeling Framework

Reporting Tools

Data Tools

Tutorials and help

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