Serious plug-ins for Eclipse and WSAD
| Name | Description | Update site |
| AntLR | AntLR lexer integration | http://antlreclipse.sourceforge.net/updates |
| Applet launcher | Start Applets directly from Eclipse. | |
| AspectJ plugin | A must have.... if you want to experience aspect programming. | http://download.eclipse.org/technology/ajdt/update |
| BlackSun C# plugin | C# syntax highlightning | |
ByteCode Outline  |
Interesting plugin which shows the bytecode of any given method/class. | http://download.forge.objectweb.org/eclipse-update/ |
| C/C++ | Provides limited integration with a C/C++ compiler from Eclipse. | |
| CheckStyle | Code style checker | |
| Classfile locator | Can't find which JAR contains your favorite class comes from ?. Classfile locator comes to the rescue. | |
| ConcernMapper |
Still in its early stage, but really helpful when you have a large project and need to regroup classes per "concern" | http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~martin/cm |
| Eclipse Platform Extensions | Most usefull tools are |
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| Hex Editor | Shows binary files | http://ehep.sourceforge.net/bin |
| Implementor | The Implementors plugins add the possibility to jump to a method declaration in a implementation class instead of an interface | http://eclipse-tools.sourceforge.net/updates/ |
| JadClipse | Adds menu actions to decompile class files from the IDE. | |
| Jalopy | good code formatter. Not really usefull with Eclipse 3.0 | |
| Javascript editor | Add colors and syntax lookup in eclipse | |
| Log4E | Log4J helpers in Eclipse | http://log4e.jayefem.de/update |
| LogWatcher | REALLY useful if you need to monitor log file status/updates. | |
| Memory Monitor |
Tweak to activate the Eclipse 3.1 embeded memory monitor | |
| PMD | Certainly one of the best code checker out there. | |
| Project Sets | Regroups project dependencies together. VAJ users, you are going to love this one. | |
| Quickmarks | That's a really cool plugin to bookmark lines of code | http://eclipse-tools.sourceforge.net/updates |
| RegEX Tester | Regular expression tester | http://brosinski.com/stephan/eclipse |
| SFTP File Synchro | Deploy your projects to your favority sftp server. | http://klomp.org/eclipse/updates |
| Visual Rules | a tool for the rapid development of business logic, speeding up application development | http://www.visual-rules.de/updatesite |
| Workspace saver | Backup your workspace in no time. | |
| ZipCreation | Automatically creates a zip archive when the project is recompiled. |
| Name | Description | Update site |
| EasyStruts | Cool Apache Struts integration. | http://easystruts.sourceforge.net/eclipse/updates/site.xml |
| Slime UML | UML class diagram editor plugin for Eclipse | |
| Solex | automate HTTP Testing from within Eclipse. | |
| Strunts config Editor | Visually design/dispay strunt config files (requires Solarclipse) | http://www.improve-technologies.com/alpha/updates/site.xml |
| SWT designer | Excellent SWT designer | |
| JAX Front | Creates/Generates Swing and HTML fromtends from a proprietary XML grammar. nice. |
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| SolarClipse | Adds support for XML, JSP and HTML file extensions. | |
| Stylo Plume | XSL processing within Eclipse, convenient. | http://www.jnegre.org/updates/site.xml |
| XML 2 Object | Point an XML, right click, it generated the java model for you. | |
| XMLBuddy | Good XML Editor/Formatter | |
| XPath Explorer | Usefull plugin to test XPath expressions |
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| Quantum | Certainly one of the best JDBC tools for Eclipse | |
| Clay Database Modeling | Database modeling tool. | |
| easySQL | Excellent SQL client | |
| Hibernate Synchronizer | Regenerates DOA classes when hbm files change | http://hibernatesynch.sourceforge.net/update/ |
| Hibernator | Object->RDMS mapping tool | |
| JfaceDBC | v2.x is certainly the best JDBC client for Eclipse. | |
| JNDI Explorer | Full featured, convenient LDAP/JNDI browser |
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| Resin | ver 0.9 is the best Resin integration out there. | |
| Tomcat Launcher | Full Tomcat integration, a must try. |
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| Insectivore | A must have when you work with other developpers: it uses the source control to share tasks. | http://zclipse.org/updates |
| Sangam | Pair programming pushed to the extreme! | |
| SSH CVS Plugin | If your SSH server runs on a specific port number, that's the plugin you need. (Eclipse 2 has this feature natively). | |
| SSH2 CVS Plugin | Full support of SSH2 within Eclipse 2. Really cool but only works with JDK 1.4.x |
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| Essential APIs & Manuals | Set of API and manual documentation. |
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