Eclipse is an open source, full featured IDE for tool integration built by an open community of tool providers. Operating under a open source paradigm, with a common public license that provides royalty free source code and world wide redistribution rights, the eclipse platform provides tool developers with ultimate flexibility and control over their software technology.
- Main site: http://www.eclipse.org
- Plugins: http://www.eclipse-plugins.info
- Current version: 3.1.2
Features
By default, Eclipse is designed for coding in Java.
Eclipse contains nearly everything one would want in an advanced, professional IDE.
List of Major Features:
Note that many of these don't apply to the UnrealScript plugin.
- Syntax Coloring
- Error checking:
- Syntax error underlining.
- outstanding support for plugins ([1]).
- section folding (you can a button on the side that makes all but the first statement of a block of code fold up until you press it again)
- Project-based archetecture.
- Class, package, project browser.
- Tasks list window (with TODO in comments, etc...)
- Automatic, behind-the-scenes compilation.
- CVS (concurrent version system, for team project managment)
- JUnit support- A tool for automatically generating test methods.
- JavaDoc based tooltips
- Debugger features:
- Stack trace window
- Variables list (with thier current data)
- hover tooltips contain variable's current data
- Breakpoints can be configured. i.e. break only after instruction pointer has passed over it a given number of times.
- Step, step into, step out, step over
Plugins
- UC Editor
- UCEditor
- | Jerome-X has developed a wonderful plugin to an amazing IDE. The plugin allows Unreal scripters to easily create and maintain Unreal scripting projects. Note
- The plugin has basic features but is a Work In Progress. Many thanks to Jerome-X!
Jerome-X: Eclipse is mainly used for development of Java programs and J2EE applications, but there are increasingly new plugins being developed for eclipse, e.g. for C++ and lots of other languages. There hundreds of all kind of plugins available, see http://www.eclipse-plugins.info
The features that usable with the UScript plugin should be put in bold or something. Also maybe the features list should be divided into sections a little bit more