Eclipse is an open source project focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software. Eclipse provides extensible tools and frameworks that span the software development lifecycle, including support for modeling, language development environments for Java, C/C++ and others, testing and performance, business intelligence, rich client applications and embedded development.
Out of the box eclipse includes a full-featured Java IDE, which is an example of how the platform can be configured to support a particular language. With the Web Tool Platform (WTP) plug-in you have everything you need to begin developing J2EE Web applications. The WTP project includes the following tools: source editors for HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JSP, SQL, XML, DTD, XSD, and WSDL; graphical editors for XSD and WSDL; J2EE project natures, builders, and models and a J2EE navigator; a Web service wizard and explorer, and WS-I Test Tools; and database access and query tools and models.
To get going simply install your favorite JDK and then download and the eclipse SDK from the Eclipse website and unzip it to a directory on your system.
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