Appendix A. Spring DM development with Eclipse
Eclipse is a free integrated development environment (IDE). It's written in Java and was intended primarily for developing Java applications. The Eclipse platform is also extensible because it provides an advanced plug-in framework. The range of provided plug-ins is quite large, with plug-ins being available for many languages including C, C++, COBOL, Python, Perl, and PHP.
Eclipse is particularly suitable for OSGi development because it is based internally on this technology. The Eclipse IDE is built on Equinox, an OSGi 4 implementation that extends the specification with various extension points. Developing Eclipse plug-ins corresponds to creating extended OSGi components. Because Eclipse allows ...
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