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Useful Eclipse Plugins

Version 112.1 by Kieran Kelleher on 2008/08/27 07:21

Introduction

The functionality of Eclipse can be extended with more plugins and these are often free and sometimes open source. They can usually be installed the same way as you first installed WOLips. Simply get the appropriate update "Update URL" for the plugin (or sometimes a selection of plugins are available from the author), create a remote update site and install. The remote update site URL can usually be found somewhere in the documentation and often is more convenient that downloading the files and installing from HD.

Of course, if you are reading this, it goes without saying that WOLips is the most useful plugin of all  thumb_up

Useful Plugins

 Name  Details 
 Subclipse  Essential Subversion client

http://subclipse.tigris.org/

Update Site: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.2.x (For svn 1.4.x)

http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.4.x (For svn 1.5.x)

Pre-requisite: Subversion binaries already installed Instructions 
 QuickREx  Provides regular expression building tool in a View

HomePage: http://www.bastian-bergerhoff.com/eclipse/features/web/QuickREx/toc.html

Update Site: http://www.bastian-bergerhoff.com/eclipse/features 
 AnyEdit  AnyEdit plugin adds several new tools to the context menu of text based Eclipse editors, to Eclipse main menu and editor toolbar.

http://andrei.gmxhome.de/eclipse/

AnyEdit contributes also Import/Export working sets wizards.

AnyEdit also allows you to automatically remove trailing whitespaces and/or perform tabs<->spaces conversion on a "save" action in all text-based Eclipse editors, and can show whitespace in text editors. 
 Jadclipse  On the fly decompilation of .class files - useful for debugging.

http://jadclipse.sourceforge.net/

Works in association with pre-installed jad executable.

Update Sites:

Eclipse 3.2: http://webobjects.mdimension.com/jadclipse/3.2

Eclipse 3.3: http://webobjects.mdimension.com/jadclipse/3.3 
 FindBugs  Finds bugs via static analysis.

Update Site: http://findbugs.cs.umd.edu/eclipse 
 Metrics  Analyzes code and can identify problem areas where complexity is too high (long methods, too many parameters, too much indentation, etc.)

Update Site: http://metrics.sourceforge.net/ 
 PMD  Static code analysis, finds problems in your code

Update Site: http://pmd.sf.net/eclipse 
 TestNG  Unit testing

Update Site: http://beust.com/eclipse 
 CheckStyle  Checks your code is consistent with a customisable set of coding rules

Update Site: http://eclipse-cs.sourceforge.net/update