Installation and use of Eclipse for Linux on

Brief introduction

Eclipse is an extensible, open source IDE (integrated development environment). It is completely independent of platform and language. In addition to the mix of several languages supported by the Eclipse community (Java, C + +, Cobol), there are projects that are adding eclipse support for other languages, such as Python, Eiffel, PHP, Ruby, and C #. There are some tips for installing the tools you need, so this article will step through the installation and configuration of a stable development environment using the Eclipse Workbench in the Linux system running on IBM pseries™.

All of the work in Eclipse is organized as subprojects and components under top-level projects. The project organization in Eclipse Project is shown in Figure 1:

Figure 1. Eclipse top-level projects

The 3 Eclipse top-level projects are described in table 1:

Table 1. Introduction to Eclipse top-level projects

Project	Introduced
Platform	Platform for building other Eclipse-based tools
Jdt	Java development tools, or Java IDE
Pde	Plug-in development environment

Table 2 lists the subprojects in the Platform project:

Table 2. Components of a Platform project

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sub project	introduction
ant	build tools based on Ant Java
compare	Universal comparison tool
core library
debug	Universal debugger
doc	document
Help system
release project
scripting	script supports
search	integrated search tool
SWT	standard Widget toolkit
text	text editor Framework
user interface Library
dynamic update/installation/field service
version and configuration management
webdav