Eclipse isn’t a single monolithic program, but rather a small kernel called a plug-in loader surrounded by hundreds (and potentially thousands) of plug-ins. In this chapter Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel give you a more in-depth understanding of Eclipse and its structure in relation to creating plug-ins.
An Overview of the Eclipse Infrastructure
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FIX THE VONAGE BANNER AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What vonage banner?
If it’s so flippin’ great and modern and up-todate then why does it have UI (with splashscreen) that belongs in the 1980’s. Open it: your eyes bleed. Use it, really use it, and you’d think you’ve gone to at least the 7th rung of hell.
In 2006 there’s really no excuse for such crapola. That Sun no boast that it’s meant to be an eco-system defies belief.
Why doesn’t somebody send someone (eg. Chuck N.) over to beat the Sun board members up?
Are you some kind of idiot?
A) Sun has nothing to do with Eclipse. They don’t support (they don’t even seem to like it).
B) Your random complaints include Sun, which sounds like you think this is Swing-based. Eclipse uses your native underlying windowing tool kit for the most part (GDI on Windows, GTK on Linux, etc).
Get a clue.
Edited 2006-07-09 22:35
Eclipse was originally developed by IBM. Sun had nothing to do with it.
Nope, Sun had nothing to do with Eclipse.
IBM created it as an attack on the development tools of Sun (NetBeans?) i think.
Think about the name “Eclipse” and what it looks like as a natural phenomenon.
Hint: Solar Eclipse
Edited 2006-07-10 09:34
Think about the name “Eclipse” and what it looks like as a natural phenomenon.
Hint: Solar Eclipse
That’s great ! I’ve never noticed it 🙂
Anyway, yes: Sun is supporting NetBeans and it is also distribuiting in bundle with the SDK (aaltought only as an option)