Favourite Eclipse Plugin Sites
Recent Eclipse problems force me to try other IDEs and diferent Eclipse versions and distributions.
So I finally took the time to create a list of our favourite Eclipse Plugins resp. their Update Sites:
Name, Feature/Purpose | Update Site URLs | Further reading, Remarks |
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ADT, integrates Android Developer Tools and plafform sources | Requires Android SDK, too. | |
CDT, C/C++ Developement Tools. | Release: http://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/releases/8.4 B.e.: https://hudson.eclipse.org/.../org.eclipse.cdt.repo/target/repository | Stable CDT is available within standard repositories. Milestone and bleeding edge links are from the CDT Downloads page. |
CUTE Plugin, C++ Unit Testing Easier | (http://www.cute-test.com/updatesite) | See on project Homepage: Cute-Test Installation |
Eclipse Dynamic Languages Toolkit | http://download.eclipse.org/technology/dltk/updates-dev/latest/ | See project Homepage: Eclipse Dynamic Languages Toolkit |
EPIC, Eclipse Perl Integration |
| See project Homepage: EPIC homepage |
GWT Eclipse Plugin | Adjust site URL to Eclipse version. GWT seems dead, though. | |
JD, Java Decompiler Plugin | http://jd.benow.ca/jd-eclipse/update | Afterwards ensure "Class File Editor" is activated for "*.class without source". |
M2E, Maven integration | http://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/releases | Maven integration |
Maven Integration for Android Development | http://rgladwell.github.com/m2e-android/updates/ | Has some quirks with library projects. Got rather unusable, drove me towards Android Studio. |
RunJettyRun, | http://run-jetty-run.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/updatesite | Allows running Jetty in Eclipse, nice for i.e. JavaScript development. Project homepage: https://code.google.com/p/run-jetty-run/ Don't forget to create a good |
ShellEd, Shell script editor | http://sourceforge.net/projects/shelled/files/shelled/update/ Now part of Dynamic Languages Toolkit, see above | See project homepage http://sourceforge.net/projects/shelled |
Spring Framework |
| Adjust site URL to Eclipse version. Infos on project homepage: SpringSource Tool Suite Installation Instructions |
Subclipse, Subversion integration | http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.10.x for subversion 1.8
https://dl.bintray.com/subclipse/releases/subclipse/4.3.x/ for subversion 1.10+ https://dl.bintray.com/subclipse/releases/subclipse/latest/ for bleeding edge | Choose version matching your native subversion client. Infos on project homepage: Subclipse Wiki In debian the debian package |
"Hide Quick Access" plugin | https://raw.github.com/atlanto/eclipse-4.x-filler/master/pdt_tools.eclipse-4.x-filler.update/ | Works around the infamous "Hide Quick Access"-problem in eclipse-4.x, more information at: https://github.com/atlanto/eclipse-4.x-filler Eclipse bug report: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=362420 |