Useful Eclipse Plugins

Version 121.1 by Kieran Kelleher on 2007/07/12 14:02

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/ 
 QuickREx  Provides regular expression building tool in a View

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

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 jad executable. 
 FindBugs  Finds bugs via static analysis.

Update Site: http://findbugs.cs.umd.edu/eclipse