EASE (Eclipse Advanced Scripting Environment)1 is a very popular extension for Eclipse that has a similar focus to TEA’s: extending the IDE. It can be used to dynamically extend the IDE using scripts in various scripting languages (such as Python—which we’ll use in the samples, JavaScript, Groovy, etc
.2). There are situations where EASE is better suited to extend the IDE than TEA—for instance, if users of the IDE should be able to change scripted behavior. Then there are situations where TEA is better suited—for instance when users of the IDE should not be able to change IDE behavior. And, ...
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