•Eclipse is an open
source community whose projects are focused on building an extensible development platform, runtimes
and application frameworks
for building, deploying and managing software across the entire software lifecycle
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•The Eclipse projects
can be conceptually organized into seven different "pillars" or categories:
wEnterprise
Development
wEmbedded and Device
Development
wRich Client
Platform
wRich Internet
Applications
wApplication
Frameworks
wApplication Lifecycle
Management (ALM)
wService Oriented
Architecture (SOA)
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